LACE project in collaboration with University of Amsterdam organises on December 10th a workshop in Amsterdam to focus on institutional readiness for learning analytics.

The Institutional Readiness Day is highly relevant for the following target groups:

• Groups and initiatives working towards educational standards, open architecture for education (e.g. Apereo, Jisc, SURF and national initiatives)
• Higher Education institution data managers and strategists
• School agencies thinking about architectures, support frameworks
• Ministries of education and regional managers
• Workplace: data managers from large organisations or networks
• Policy makers or politicians concern with information policy (regional, national, European)
• Techno activists and others working on issues related to data protection and privacy, content provisioning for learning…

Agenda (provisional):

9:00: Coffee and registration
9:30: Introduction to the Institutional Readiness Day (Dai Griffiths, LACE project)
9:35: Introduction to the UvAInform pilots in learning analytics (Stefan Mol, University of Amsterdam)
9:45: 8 pilots on learning analytics – state-of-the-art report (Garbor Kimishok, University of Amsterdam)
11:45: Implications for Institutional Readiness of the UvAInform pilots (Alan Berg, University of Amsterdam
12:00: Lunch
13:00: Towards Open Architectures and Interoperability for learning analytics (Patrick Lynch, Jisc and Tore Hoel, LACE project)
13:30: The JISC Architecture towards Institutional Readiness (Patrick Lynch, Jisc)
14:00: Vision of the Future: the LACE Policy Delphi on Learning Analytics – (Dai Griffiths, LACE project)
16:00: Discussion
16:30: Networking and drinks at the nearby Cafe de Jaren

The event will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on December 10th, following the Learning Analytics Code Jam organised by SURF 8/9th of December.