DISA

Welcome to the last Higher Research Seminar of the year!

• When? November 17th 14-15
• Where? In B1006, Växjö or online

Title: Technology integration is about trust

Abstract:

We started our research project with a baggage of expectations about what we could do with data in compulsory education. Even greater expectation was reflected by the school principals we were working with. “Can we see this? And can we see that?”: asked the principals.

Two years after we started the project, we are standing on the finish line but have not crossed it yet. This means that we have not been able to “really” analyze (any which way) the data to create useful visualization dashboards. But we have learned a hack of a lot!
1. No data standards on site!
2. Digital inheritance is enormous!
3. Everyone develops as they please!
4. Competences are not at the top!
5. GDPR scares the “#€% out of everyone!
6. Local IT infrastructure is not in place!
7. OMG how many hours of dialog it took to get where we are today!
8. It is not about technology. It is about trust!

I will show you what we can do with the data, at this point in time only theoretically. I will also show you the technical infrastructure that Artemis, my doctoral student working with the data, has setup for integrating multiple datasets coming from different companies and schools. If you have experience of working with educational data from the primary school sector, I would also like to hear from you about ideas for future direction.