“The costs of inequality: capitalism & democracy at cross- purposes” Robert H. Wade LSE March 2014.
Open day 18 march 2014 lse presentation
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The rapid implementation of Talis Aspire at LSE
Suddenly Last Summer
Michael FakeTeaching Support & Academic Liaison Manager
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Context
Conversion
Advocacy
Outcomes
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Context
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Small university
50% postgraduate, 50% international
Social sciences, c.1,000 courses
Library central purchasing
LSE
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In-house reading list system failing
Ordering backlogs
Moodle well established, but inconsistent
Poor student experience
Reading list problems
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Simple user interface for editors
Consistent experience for students
Structured data for the Library
Talis Aspire
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Conversion
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Slow rollouts got stuck at pilot stage
Academics didn’t influence each other quickly
Pressure for fast solution
Goal: implement for all UG courses by October
Big bang
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Could only persuade, not demand
Inputting lists from scratch still time-consuming
Had to make Aspire the obvious option
Decision: Library to pump-prime the system
Library conversion
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Attempt to migrate data from in-house system
Data too old, too limited
No structure
Delayed manual conversion
Data migration
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Production line
Take lists from Moodle
Replicate structure and notes
Guesswork!
Manual conversion
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Teaching Support Staff (4.5 FTE)
Additional hours (1 FTE)
Temporary staff (7 temps, April – July)
Staffing
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4 months, 513 lists, 91,440 items
Temps each added 138 items per day
c.10 – 13 pence per item
Library staff added c.70 items per day
Conversion in numbers
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Temps are faster than Library staff
Need good quality control
Need a lot of motivation
Useful way of auditing VLE
What did we learn?
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Advocacy
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Awareness of the new system: Positive potential for them and their students
Commitment to use the system after conversion
Orientation and training
Purpose
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Teachers and administrators
Generic emails unsuccessful
Individual approach much more effective
Emails and notices
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Wary of this approach initially
Departmental meetings
Positive response
Presentations
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275 individual desktop training sessions
Half hour orientations
No group sessions
Training
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Short overview
Basic information
Assumption that Aspire was intuitive
Guides
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Outcomes
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Browser problems
Navigating long lists
Problems
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93% of UG lists converted, 28% of PG
Contacted all academics again - 73% handed over
Handover
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Remarkably uncontroversial
150+ lists created independently
9,000 unique hits on the first day
Success
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Convert our remaining postgraduate lists
Implement DCM
Next steps