Minutes of proceedings in Congress Room 1 

Outi Tasala Antti Mäki Tarita Maraqa

10.6.2020

Turvallisuutta virtuaalikampuksella

 https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/sessions/keynote-1-intelligent-campus-risks-benefits-ethics/

Future Vision for higher education and research (post COVID-19)

Klo 12:15 Suomen aikaa

https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/sessions/plenary-1-panel-discussion/

"Research Futures: drivers and scenarios for the next decad". Link to report: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/elsevier-research-futures-report

  • Scenarios constructed along three dimensions
    1. Brave open world
    2. Ever increasing dominance of tech giants
    3. Eastern ascendance
  • How are we preparing for OPEN future?
    • Requires application of open standards
    • Security very important
  • Example of open world collaboration
    • Global impact: strong position of dutch research
    • top talent: universities succeed better at attracting , collaborating with and retaining top talent
    • assessment: funding and researchers' careers are based on more holistic and fairer picture
    • less admin:  admin burden on researchers decreases
    • impact on society
    • innovation
    • re-use and transparency

Q&A

  • How to measure quality of research in times of high-complexity and insecurity?
    • How to put research into context that is useful for policy-makers? How to translate research from different disciplines to apply to real world problems?
    • Mobility is a challenge and needs further support: libraries and labs should go to researchers instead of the other (current) way around.
    • During post-Covid times, open access is crucial. Technology should be harnessed to create a sense of community and a place for researchers to collaborate.
  • New models needed to transfer latest research knowledge into teaching. This will be even more important if teaching will remain online: limited mobility of students must be compensated with latest research insights from all around the world. Teaching lags behind.
  • Double edged sword of teaching online: class and income inequalities risk dividing students into two groups where students from wealthier backgrounds succeed better than students from low-income families.
  • How to support the links to governments' daily work where it has diminished due to the covid-19 emergency? On one hand collaboration between researchers and governments increased due to the emergency, but working remotely has  hampered collaboration on the other.
  • Should digital skills be part of students' academic training?
  • Are ethics discussed sufficiently in terms of post-Covid 19 research?
    • Responsible internationalization: we need to be aware of ethical issues on the way, e.g.  how to deal with totalitarian regimes, animal testing, etc. The future vision for research must include these ethical considerations.


Keynote 2: The art of insight: making good visualization decisions (Alberto Cairo, Miami Univ.)

Slides on page: https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/sessions/keynote-2-art-of-insight/

Visualization for communication. Report, Ten Considerations Before You Create Another Chart About COVID-19, available at https://medium.com/nightingale/ten-considerations-before-you-create-another-chart-about-covid-19-27d3bd691be8

Ethics literature in statistics, data science, technology, etc.


2:15 pm - 2:45 pm
LT1: Students as Digital Change Agents (#40, #10) (Sarah Knight, Clare Killen, Anna Pacholak)


3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
LT2: Designing for digital learning (#56, #61, #79) (Anne-Dominique Salamin, Merja Laamanen, Tomi Kauppinen)

Merja Laamanen, University of Jyväskylä: Improving accessibility in higher education – lessons learned from Finnish networks

(#61) Slides Abstract

  • IT Specialist in the Univ. of Jyväskylä, working in a accessibility sub-project
  • Accessibility often confused with access - it's not enough to just provide materials online
  • Established network set for sharing knowledge and co-operating: a national HE development project DigiCampus (2018-2020)
    • Creating an accessible and digital campus
  • Contributed to the learning environment quality indicator, among other tasks
  • Case example of accessibility of a learning environment:
    • Need to be considered in tendering and purchases
    • Technology: platform & user interface (ICT)
    • Content & pedagogical methods (teachers)



Anne-Dominique Salamin, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO): MOOCs in a young Applied Sciences University: How to be David among Goliaths?

(#56) Abstract



Tomi Kauppinen, Aalto University: Designing Digital Higher Education: Case Aalto Online Learning

(#79) Abstract


11th June 2020

9:15 am - 10:00 am
IT Leaders 2: Digital Transformation and Change (Jim Nottingham, Pekka Kähkipuro)

EA has a crucial role for gaining and implementing digital transformation.

Digital Assessment (#29, #48)

12:00-13:00 (Suomen aikaa), Marjut Anderson, Liisa Kallio

https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/sessions/lt3-digital-assessment-29-48/

Notes/MA:

  • Discussion and questions:
    • Shared use of exam premises (or other campus premises) especially during COVID-19 
    • Have you considered including commercial exam centres (e.g. Pearson VUE, Prometric, Kryterion) in the EXAM experience?
    • Proctoring solutions
    • Also, together with the University of Bath, we’re hosting Digital Examinations Forum 2020. Next session is on 17th June with University of Bergen and University of Gothenburg, if you would like to hear about how they have been doing digital exams, registration is still open: https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/digital-examinations-forum-2020/
    • Has there been any quality research: better marks with digital assessment?

How to handle your high-stakes assessment during the Covid-19 emergency

15:30-15:00 (Suomen aikaa)

https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/sessions/plenary-3/

Digital transformation of universities and higher education

16:00-16:30 (Suomen aikaa)

https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/sessions/keynote-3-digital-transformation-of-uni-he/

Jan Gulliksen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Focus in human - computer interactions
  • As research areas of human interaction with computers, of my focus areas the administrative work is most complex
  • Bringing in technology to our work thinking it wouldn't change it
  • Two types of digitalization (same word in english):
    • Information digitalization (suom. digitointi) and
    • Societal digitalization (suom. digitalisaatio)
  • Digital transformation: It's business development with use of technology
  • DIGG - Swedish agency for digitalization
  • Digital Economy and Society Indez 2020: top 20 ranking of countries when it comes to digitalization. 
    • Finland number 1
    • Challenges in many countries with digital public services
    • Changes when it comes to demographics
  • Differences between countries in their efficiency in (re)training people to create and fill more jobs when computerization take away jobs
  • Corona speeded up digitalization of HEI
    • Digital education and examination
    • Increased efficiency and productivity
    • The future premises
    • Sustainability
    • The "new normal"
  • In HEIs the business models and organization are very stable:

Q&A

There was a slide on MOOCs that was passed on rather quickly (I appreciate time is tight) — but I wonder, is your contention that MOOCs is part of digitised or digitalised education?

  • Packaged into a business model that cannot be sustained. Locked into a one commercial system. Digitalizing education on the campuses as well.

What are the factors which drive the digitalization of the R&D as well as the teaching and learning at universities? What is the next business model?
How are these reflected in the Swedish strategy?

  • Data driving the research that is being done. Publishing data and making it available to others. Discovering what to do with data, and developing these forward will result in very interesting results. Need to be better to work in a trans-disciplinary fashion.

What is the role of IT people in this? Business side of it

  • Before always referred to the IT leaders, but now it's understood that it's not about the systems, its about management. CIOs engaging both with the users and the top management and collaborate in working with these matters. 

How do we keep the good stuff?

  • Have to stop talking about going back and have to start thinking the business in the future. Campuses have an important role even if people can collaborate online. Need to combine digital and face-to-face work. Need to gain a know-how in the digitalization tools that we have. Need to set high requirements for these tools, and handle not just the technology but also the structure and pedagogical side of it.

Is there a dilemma concerned to the lack of IT-skills, when at the same time saying that digitalization is about social and organizional skills? Which skills are required?

  • Which skills are required? In the future you need a broad palette of skills, advanced depth skills in your field, broad skills of more a multidisciplinary nature, 21st century skills, ethical skills, skills for assessing responsibility and the societal influence of what you are doing etc. You can no longer be expected only to dig deep in your own specialization but to get a much broader knowledge and skills.

Concerning gender issues: The gender differences are enormously important and we need to continue to monitor and support an increased equality. From the statistics that I have seen I can’t confirm the observations from the Guardian, but it is an important issue to keep on analyzing and find measures to support this.

What is the role of HEI in digitalization wrt Corona: I think we need to realize that we should not be an institution mainly focusing on the 19-25 years old but be relevant for the entire society. By digitalizing our teaching and making it available to the general audience we could at almost the same cost spread our education to the entire population and playing a different role in the society than we are used to. I think that workers need to spend 10-20% of their working time on educating themselves and that means that we need to provide the opportunities for life long learning that are so much needed. But for this to happen the governments need to provide incentives and life long learning needs to be recognized on the same level as traditional teaching.



From the chat:

https://www.educationnation.ee/estonia-offers-its-digital-education-solutions-for-free-to-support-other-countries/

12th June 2020

The future of learning in a digital world

11-12 suomen aikaa

Tony Sheehan, Gartner, https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/sessions/keynote-4-future-of-learning/

Heini Manninen , Outi Tasala

Importance of foresight and resilience capabilities. 

Pic and mix

12-13 Suomen aikaa, https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/sessions/pick-mix-1-20-49-81/

How to accomplish education spaces where students can read subject matter anywhere in the classroom / Piet van der Zanden, Delft University of Technology: (#20) Slides Abstract


Citizen Developers Driving the Digital Campus / Christoph Baumgarten, Fhs St.gallen: (#49) Slides Abstract


Presenting the HE-BIA Maturity Model v2.0: a lean assessment model of business intelligence and analytics initiatives in Higher Education / Elsa Cardoso, ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon: (#81) Abstract

  • Research project sponsored by the BI SIG Eunis
  • Rationale:
    • Enable each HEI to conduct a self-assessment exercise (on high level)
    • use lean approach that needs very little resources (no questionnaire)
    • use a research methodology
  • Why?
    • Heis can identify dimensions of potential improvement

2 research papers are to be published in 2020/2021

Elsa presented a new version of the model:

  • 7 categories
  • 18 dimensions undet categories (in total)
  • Maturity levels: 5 levels


Elsa presented how the model was valuated and worked in SIG BI







Plenary: How hybrid and virtual classrooms are transforming distance learning

13.15-13:45 Suomen aikaa

https://www.eunis.org/eunis2020/sessions/plenary-4-hybrid-virtual-classrooms-transforming-distance-learning/


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