the talis keynote at talis insight 2015
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Talis Insight 2015
David ErringtonChief Executive Officer
Post DigitalIce Cream etextbooks Analytics
Yesterday…
Our focusDigital Shift
Where we areWhat we doing
Where we are going
Today ….
At Talis - our deliberate focus is creating software and applying it appropriately
to teaching and learning.
Cloud, Mobile, Content, Workflow, Analytics
But first ;)
Digital Shift!
Where are we today?
Reading Lists Digitised Content Project Lighthouse
79 institutions in seven countries are managing and delivering their
learning resources
Reading Lists
including over half of the universities in the UK
Reading Lists
Last 12 months: 9m references and 250k lists
20m references, 455k reading lists
86.3m hits, 1.5m reading intentions
Reading Lists
Reading Lists
Academic Year 13-14
! "93%
Desktop & Laptop7%
Tablet & Mobile
Reading Lists
Academic Year 14-15
! "86%
Desktop & Laptop14%
Tablet & Mobile
Peak usage October, 2pm… Tuesdays!
Reading Lists
1.3m pages, 70,000 scans
Digitised Content
# $ %670,000
Viewed270,000
Printed36,000
Downloaded
Digitised Content
100,000 requests Busiest month: August
Avg time, request to ready: 7days
Digitised Content
New People New Markets New Products
New Challenges
and sometimes …
We are growing up
So what have we been doing?
Reading Lists & Digitised Content
Keji AdedejiProduct Manager
Themes
Continuous Improvement
Continuous DeliverySupporting Growth
99.99% Uptime
30 releases in 2015 so far…
74 improvements
SecurityHTTPS
encrypted data transfer from and to end user
less vulnerable to external attacks or access
IntegrationLTI
working more closely with partners and customers to support LTI integrations
reduce academic barriers
reading lists and digitised resources can be delivered to students with other course materials in beta
LTI, Integrations & Data - 1.30PM
British Library Integration
bringing more elements of digitisation workflow into Talis Aspire Digitised Content
In BETA with 8 institutions
Digitised Content Update - 2PM British Library Integration - 3PM
Live reporting
• No longer relying on data download process
• Reporting directly from live data
• Remove time and data lag
• Additional report columns and filter types
• In BETA with some customers
Reviews refresh
enable reviewers to identify lists and items which require attention and prioritise work
introduction of change and alert information
focus on items which have changed
bringing in as much information needed into reviews workflow
support quicker decision making
reduce duplicate effort
Reading List Product Update - 1pm
Talis Insight 2015
David ErringtonChief Executive Officer
What else are we working on ?
Universal Content Universal Player
Universal Analytics Universal Collaboration
Technology
Relevant Integrated Scalable Reusable
Project LighthouseTeaching and Learning with Digital Content
Project Lighthouse
Mark GavilletProduct Manager
Project Lighthouse is NOT:
…about making a product called Lighthouse
…about building a content management system
Project until now has concentrated on a solid foundation of enabling technologies to support further investigation and development
In itself, this has proven valuable and technologies developed will improve current products
Foundation
We strongly believe digital resources can do more to benefit teaching and learning
Centred on connecting technology based teaching and learning in meaningful ways
Why build the house?
Pilot institutions in UK comprising academics and student groups
USA and Australian pilots planned
First stage pilots
Increase in teaching and learning with digital resources, the majority involving workarounds
Workarounds display a need and a recognition of potential benefit
Benefits are such that effort is expended working around barriers
What happens if the barriers are removed?
Existing tools
Resources can be more than just digital facsimiles
Organic, living resources that evolve and improve as they are used
Growing resources
Accommodate student’s intuitive behaviour
Fully inclusive learning groups
Widen discussion
Peer learning
Call for pilots:
Self-selecting academics
Student groups
Learning technologists
Work with us
Sue Greener - University of Brighton1.30-2.00pm
Alan Dix - University of Birmingham2.00-2.30pm
Chris Trace - University of Surrey3.00-3.30pm
Project Lighthouse overview and update3.30-4.00pm
Talis Insight 2015
David ErringtonChief Executive Officer
So what does all this mean for Reading Lists & Digitised Content?
Reading Lists & Digitised Content
Keji AdedejiProduct Manager
Background
Reading lists point students at resources
Evidence of digital shift with more online materials
eBooks, eJournals, Websites etc
Digitised content within direct to students
Bringing the capabilities developed in Project Lighthouse into existing modules
Organise Share StoreUniversal
PlayerEngagement
Analytics
Enabling support of digital resources of
multiple types
Reading Lists Digitised Content
Organise Share StoreUniversal
PlayerEngagement
Analytics
Understanding real life examples
Understanding the challenges and
workflows
Working with development
partners…
Talis Insight 2015
David ErringtonChief Executive Officer
The trouble with vision is keeping it in sight ;)
Partners Developers
Pilots Careers Interns
So how can you help ?
Growing up Technology focus
Evolving our products Expanding in new markets
New products in 2016
Summary
Please help us on our journey…. together
