DELIA Outcomes
90% admissions doesn’t need additional information; however this could be carried through to support induction (add stuff from workshop notes)
While JISC has been working in eAdministration for some time, this was one of a small number of initial projects which aimed to bridge the eLearning and eAdministration domains. It was a challenge for us to remain learner focused while working in an area where the user is actually Admissions staff rather than students directly.
This was a very broad project which we had to wind back as it progressed, so that we finally focused on the demonstrator work with UCAS which now needs to be broadened out again.
We started out thinking we were going to explore how to effectively process ePortfolio for UK HEI admissions. However it soon became clear to us that there is not yet a broad base of practitioner support for this. We found that the admissions domain is highly procedural and political, and that practitioners feel burdened by the volume of change in expectations and practice imposed on them by what they see as many external bodies (SPA, the Delivery Partnership, Government policy and agenda…)
We are beginning to engage effectively with the community: this has escalated since the appearance of the demonstrator.
About Entry Profiles
- Entry Profiles should cover ALL the course advertising information, and in particular the differences between it and its rivals.
- It's a particular boon to have a good interoperable tool, if information has to be repeated.
- Integration of creation of EPs into flow of information from validation processes is flagged. This suggests a coherent flow:
idea > curriculum design > validation > marketing > to UCAS
all of which should be using elements of the same information, perhaps slightly repurposed. Good quality EPs could be built up during this information flow, till the synchronisation with UCAS for publication. This work flow should be carefully designed and controlled. - Integration in this way makes UCAS "just" another publishing route: paper prospectus, online prospectus, UCAS.
- EP structure should be standardised for ease of comparison.
- Using a CMS makes things a lot easier.
- Some areas we cannot easily address through DELIA:
- Getting academic staff to write stuff.
- Resource requirements
- Time requirements