Lead: Sarah Knight, head of change student experience, Jisc
Facilitators:
Conrad Taylor, e-learning manager, City of Wolverhampton College
Stephen Webb, head of technology enhanced learning, University of Portsmouth
Mark Langer-Crame, senior digital experience insights analyst, Jisc
Ruth Drysdale, senior co-design manager, Jisc
Clare Killen, content curation manager, Jisc
Darren Colquhorn, BOS client support officer, Jisc
In this hands-on workshop, delegates will have the opportunity of using resources to support them with gathering evidence and measuring their staff and students’ digital experience. As colleges and universities are investing large sums of money into their digital environment, how do they know that this investment is being realised by staff and students using the technology effectively?
This workshop will offer resources to support those leading or managing their digital provision and show how these are being used by colleges and universities across the UK.
Attendees will have the opportunity of selecting three out of the four activities:
Hands on opportunity to use digital experience insights surveys for staff and students
Using the newly updated Jisc NUS Roadmap for supporting students to improve their digital experience and university or college
Using the enabling an excellent digital experience guidance for engaging senior leaders and informing digital strategy
Sharing institutional stories. Opportunities for delegates to speak to staff from Portsmouth University and City of Wolverhampton College on how they are measuring their students’ digital experience
How can we measure our staff and students’ digital experience?
1. How can we measure our
staff and students’ digital
experience?
Sarah Knight,
Head of change: student experience
2. Welcome from the digital experience insights team
Ruth Drysdale
Service manager
Mark Langer-Crame
Senior analyst
Sarah Knight
Service owner
Clare Killen
Content manager
Darren Colquhoun
Client support officer
3. Overview of the session
•Background and context
•Hands on activities – choose 3 of the following 10 min activities:
1. Digital experience insights staff and student surveys (Mark, Ruth and Darren)
2. Jisc NUS Roadmap for supporting students to improve their digital experience and
university (Clare)
3. Enabling an excellent digital experience guidance for engaging senior leaders and
informing digital (Sarah)
4. Hearing City of Wolverhampton College are using insights to inform their digital
developments – Conrad Taylor, Head of e-learning
5. Hearing how University of Portsmouth are using insights to inform their digital
developments – Stephen Webb, Head of technology enhanced learning
•Feedback and close
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
4. What does the insights service do?
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
•Our digital experience insights surveys provide powerful data on how your
students and staff are using technology
• Colleges and universities can use this evidence to inform digital strategies and
operational decisions about the digital environment
‘The overall impact of running the insights service for our institution is significant.
The service has given us a source of evidence which we have used to build
business cases, secure investment and lead transformation - safe in the
knowledge that transformation is being led by the student voice and the student
expectation.’
Richard Aird, head of customer service, information services, The University of Stirling
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
5. Digital experience insights provides
you with evidence of:
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
1. Return on investment
2. Impact of the implementation of institutional digital strategy
3. Identification of digital skills gap
4. Benchmarking
Which can feed into:
1. TEF and NSS
2. Ofsted
6. What is digital experience insights?
1. A tried and tested student survey (been
running past three years) and new teaching
staff survey, made up of optional questions:
- Set answers to questions so they can be
benchmarked
- Free text answers for local analysis
- Can add local questions
2. Provides a full student and staff
engagement process, supported by Jisc
guidance
3. A community of practice around the
insights process and findings (including
student representatives)
4. Compare student feedback with teaching
staff views and organisational factors
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
7. The student survey
You and your digital tech
Digital at your college/uni
Digital on your course
Your attitudes to digital
The teaching staff survey
New: Professional services staff pilot this year
Possible researcher insights survey
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
You and your digital tech
Digital at your college/uni
Your digital teaching
Your digital CPD
8. Insights report 2018
• Our 2017-18 student survey collected data
from a total of 37,720 students
- 14,292 FE learners
- 23,428 HE students
• 36 FE colleges,4 sixth form colleges and 43 universities –
approximately 16% of UK colleges and 30% of UK universities
• Report of 2018 insights findings:
ji.sc/dig-exp-insights-survey-18
• At a glance: summary of 2018 insights findings:
ji.sc/dig-exp-insights-summary-18
37,720 students surveyed
across 83 UK institutions
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
9. Staff insights 2018 pilot report
http://bit.ly/DEI-reports
• Four colleges and 11 universities across England,
Scotland and Wales piloted the surveys
• 376 college responses
• 1,545 university responses
• Core questions were benchmarkable
• Customisable questions
1,921 teachers surveyed
across 15 institutions as a pilot
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
10. Digital experience insights 2018: ANZ
http://bit.ly/DEI-reports
• 30 % of universities across the two countries
• A mean average of 864 responses per university
• Students studying in ANZ universities, have very similar
expectations and experiences of technology to those of
our UK students
• Some differences:
• ANZ students take part in significantly more digital
activities than UK students
• However, they want digital technologies to be used
less on their course
21,095 students surveyed across 13
universities in Australia and New Zealand
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
11. New reports and guidance
http://bit.ly/DEI-reports
1. Exploring the student digital experience:
student, staff and organisational factors –
Tabetha Newman
2. Jisc NUS Roadmap for supporting
students to improve their digital
experience and university
3. Enabling an excellent digital experience
guidance for engaging senior leaders and
informing digital (FE and HE versions)
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
12. Workshop activities
Choose three of the following 10 minute hands on sessions to explore:
1. Digital experience insights staff and student surveys (Ruth and Darren)
2. Jisc NUS Roadmap for supporting students to improve their digital experience and
university (Clare)
3. Enabling an excellent digital experience guidance for engaging senior leaders and
informing digital (Sarah)
4. Hearing how City of Wolverhampton College are using insights to inform their digital
developments – Conrad Taylor
5. Hearing how University of Portsmouth are using insights to inform their digital
developments – Stephen Webb
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
13. Feedback and discussion
Which activity did you find
most useful?
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•Why did you find it useful?
•How would you see this working in
your context?
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
14. Get involved
•Digital experience insights https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk
•Sign up to run insights surveys: bit.ly/DEI-EOI
•Reports of 2018 insights findings: http://bit.ly/insightsreports
•Jisc NUS Roadmap for supporting students to improve their digital experience
and university: http://bit.ly/insightsreports
•Enabling an excellent digital experience guidance for engaging senior leaders
and informing digital: http://bit.ly/insightsreports
•Case studies on institutional use: http://bit.ly/insightscase
•Join the insights community of practice with next event on 22 May:
https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk/our-service/community-of-practice/
Show of hands – those who have run or running insights
Nearly a million pounds a year is spent by colleges on supporting infrasture/ 4 – AoC survey % of annual college budget
Significant investment in technology
Expectations from students that universities and colleges will offer an authentic and relevant learning environment
In the next 20 years, 90% of all jobs need digital skills
To maintain a competitive advantage
5. To inform institutional strategies
As an outcome of the digital student work and the need to gather quantitative data on students digital experience at an organisational level and at a sector level, we developed the student digital experience tracker as a survey tool with a robust set of student tested questions delivered in BOS. See http://bit.ly/jiscdigidataservice
This evidence supports discussions with senior managers
The report containing the summary findings from 2017 surveys will be available from 20th June from web link on this slide.