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Non-Cognitive Predictors of Student Success: A Predictive Validity Comparison Between Domestic and International Students

To support equality of access, let’s build our technologies around the needs of digitally marginalised students.

Non-Cognitive Predictors of Student Success: A Predictive Validity Comparison Between Domestic and International Students

CONTEXT:

• Students in 166 countries
• 1 in 4 live in Africa
• 1,132 survey responses:

> 50% have restricted internet access VLEs’ SHORTCOMINGS:

• Offline access
• Mobile optimisation
• Content ‘silos’

RESPONSE:

• A custom-built interface

integrating multiple tools

• In-browser offline access
• Mobile optimisation
• Social newsfeed
• Multimodal pathways

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Are digital technologies complicit in acts of exclusion and marginalisation?

#betterposter template by @MikeMorrison

FUTURE SCENARIOS?

• ‘Unbundled’ VLEs
• More flexible procurement
• In-house expertise in UX
• Collaboration to share

resources (and risk)

Stuart Allan

Director of Online Learning Edinburgh Business School @OpenPlanStuart

Building physical spaces = investment Building digital spaces = cost / risk

Compromises that we couldn’t accept: – Lack of offline – Incomplete mobile optimisation – Content silos

Imagine a future where… – VLEs are ‘unbundled’ – Pick-and-mix procurement – We all have in-house developers – We collaborate to share resources (and risk)

To support equality of access, let’s build our technologies around the needs of digitally marginalised students.

Thank you @OpenPlanStuart

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