"if you're walking on thin ice you might as well dance": making the most of available...
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The University of Nottingham’s JISC-funded SALAMI project is asking the question ‘How can Labour Market Information be collected and used in ways that cut costs, enable shared services and achieve more for less effort? ‘. Many different users are collating and viewing LMI, each downloading, interpreting and describing data for their own purposes resulting in significant duplication of effort (Booth and Coolin 2010). The educational landscape is changing. These challenges offer an opportunity for creativity to thrive in a new business environment where hitherto peripheral technological approaches are considered as long term viable business solutions.TRANSCRIPT
Kirstie CoolinCentre for International ePortfolio DevelopmentUniversity of Nottinghamwww.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio
Alt-C 2011, Leeds
Making the most of available technologies to promote student choice
“If you’re walking on thin ice you might as well dance” *
* Polish Proverb
Higher fees, higher stakesStudents as consumersEducation as commodityBrowne ReviewHE White PaperKey Information SetAll Age Careers ServiceGlobalisation
UK Policy Context
Source: the guardian
Frank Hurley
Enterprising? Opportunities to share and re-use
InformationContentConnectionsPeopleOpen dataOpen standardsWeb servicesMobile techSemantic webOERAPIs
“The greatest potential value for users comes in linking different datasets and tracking typical students through their journey from school, through higher education, into a career.”
HE White Paper June 2011
Enter… The SALAMI Project
Shared Aggregation of LAbour Market Information
Hugo’s, Munich
“Develop a shared information service to streamline the collection and interpretation of Labour Market Information”
The SALAMI Project
For:
Education Providers•Reduce duplication in collating and using Labour Market Information•Plan courses, demand-led
Individuals•Add value to information about courses and choices, presenting it alongside and in comparison with other data•Improve access to information used to make choices
Regional planning•Planning course against regional skills demand
Navigating through the ice floesLinking silo’d information
Courses
The Industry
Job profilesEducation institutions
Vacancies
Career resources
The Neighbourhood Apprenticeships
Businesses
hergé
Classifications e.g.JACSLDCSQCA
Qualification codesSector Codes (SIC)
Occupational codes (SOC)Lat/Long/postcode
UKPRNontologies
Courses
Sector Job profiles
Education institutions
Vacancies
Career resourcesThe Neighbourhood
Apprenticeships
Businesses
Rig these together using common nodes
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Kirstie CoolinUniversity of Nottingham
May 2011
Working on the InfrastructureWorking on the Infrastructure
Service layer – linked data, new combined data sets, open standards, service-based accessed
Data layer
Institutional dataE.g. courses dataCurriculum maps
IresearchDestinations
Other available data
E.g. OER, social/professional
networks,
Open dataE.g. Maps/transport
Government data/stats
Labour marketBusinesses
Richer personal connections, course data, career information, business intelligence, CRM, marketing, employer engagement, alumni, graduate destination, employability etc.
XCRI LEAP2A Competence LTI HR-XMLRSS
Education institutionsEducation
institutions Course findersCourse findersCareer orgsCareer orgs Any Other Consuming services / mobile
Any Other Consuming services / mobileresearchresearch
Application layer
businessbusiness
New data created via system use – sent back to the service layer
Personal dataSocial networking
ProfilesePortfolioTraining
Fig 2. Derby College’s Mara ILP student system. Proposed layout. Derby College have also incorporated the linked Job Profiles into Mara
Rethink the scope of a Shared Service
Not just outsourcing or sharing an organisational function.
Sharing information needs for the benefit of the end user, not just the organisation.
Enhanced information Service Layer to supply accessible, contextual and meaningful data.
SALAMI projecthttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio/salami/
Just the tip of the iceberg
The Centre for International ePortfolio Development (CIePD) are an autonomous Centre within the University of Nottingham’s Information Services.
Our aims are to deliver projects that maximise the efficiency of information flow in order to support educational stakeholders access seamless ICT services and quality information.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio
Thank you for listeningKirstie [email protected] for International ePortfolio DevelopmentUniversity of Nottingham