Project Lighthouse

Rodney Tamblyn Lighthouse Academic Engagement (Consultant)

enhancing interactions with digital resources to create a more interconnected and contextual experience

Project Lighthouse - our R&D process

• multi-year project • develop core technology to better support teaching and learning with

digital resources, using the principles of connected content • iterative development with ongoing feedback from academia

Project Lighthouse - HE Digital Environment

• A unification point is required • to work across heterogeneous digital learning tools, services, platforms: • consistent experience across different content: audio, video, text, epub, office docs…

• improve academic, course, and student study workflows • fit in well with existing academic systems • make things simpler and better: not another VLE

• enable engagement analytics to be collected in a unified way

Project Lighthouse - Talis Player

• Universal Content • pdf, office docs, video, audio….

• Universal Collaboration • discussions and annotation • work the same on all content types, platforms

• Universal Analytics • Capture engagement on all content, desktop, mobile, app, all content

Universal Player

Project Lighthouse - Engagement Analytics

• Simple interactive visualisation of module and resource engagement • available “up front” in context

• Teacher and student access • Enterprise API • Campus LAK initiatives • Input into content acquisition process

“I really wanted to know how useful the documents we supply actually are [ for students], so for me the

analytics have been brilliant"

[Quote from academic feedback session, Anglia Ruskin University]

“I put content and for me it's easy and I really like it. So I am positively enthusiastic. It’s like - brilliant, I've got it

all sorted out.”

[Quote from academic feedback session, Anglia Ruskin University]

Project Lighthouse - 2016 Aspire upgrade

• Key Project Lighthouse technologies - such as the Talis Player  – will begin transitioning into Talis Aspire. • mainstreaming availability of player enhancements, learning analytics and

collaboration features in Aspire • but will remain option for all customers as to if, how, and when they utilise

• Project Lighthouse continuing role • ongoing R&D, new feature development • we’re just getting started…

Project Lighthouse - Getting involved

• Connect with us: https://talis.com/lighthouse/

• Rodney Tamblyn • rodney.tamblyn@talis.com

Project Lighthouse