Real Data, Real World, Real Stories : A case study approach to demonstrating impact on the student experience

1. Real Data, Real World, Real Stories: A case study approach to demonstrating impact on the student experience Dr Jackie Carter Senior Manager: Learning &Teaching and Social Science Data Services

2. The L&T Stories Project How Mimas services impact the student experience

3. Acknowledgments Service teams Celia Russell Justin Hayes Gail Millin-Chalabi Consultant Sarah Currier Learning & Teaching team Laura Shaw Kenny Baird

4. This talk Quantitative skills deficit in UK Social Science Does using real world data from networked services in teaching help? How can Mimas learn from this work?

5. Presentations and Publications ALT-C ELI2010 CNI Spring Meeting IASSIST 2010 ESRC Research Methods Festival JISC/CNI Conference

6. Mimas

7. Context Impact? In Search of Narratives

8. Context of skills agenda: references • Leitch Review of Skills report, 2006 (Prosperity for all in the global economy) http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/leitch_review_index.htmreport • Economic & Social Research Council. 2009. Building a world class social science research base in quantitative methods: a national strategy. ESRC Society Today. http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/Images/AQM%20flyer_tcm6-34272.pdf • MacInnes, John. 2009. Proposals to support and improve the teaching of quantitative research methods at undergraduate level in the UK. ESRC Society Today. http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/Images/Final%20Report_%20Strategic%20Adviser%20for%20Quantitative%20Methods_tcm6-35465.pdf • UK Commission for Employment and Skills. 2009. Ambition 2020: world class skills and jobs for the UK: the 2009 report: key findings and implications for action. http://www.ukces.org.uk/tags/key-findings/ambition-2020-key-findings • Higher Ambitions http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/higher-education/shape-and-structure/higher-ambitions • Skills for growth http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/further-education-skills/skills-for-growth

10. Context Strategic Adviser Report Dec 2009

11. Services and teachers involved (with thanks)

12. The Aims and Outputs • Collective showcase of benefits of Mimas services to L&T community • How do Mimas services support skills base of undergraduates and taught postgraduates? • Focus on employability

13. The stories in development

14. Census Dissemination Unit - Casweb Casweb web interface to census aggregate outputs and digital boundary data

15. The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem: • Ethnicity in Leeds

16. Teaching with Census data University of Leeds Holly Shulman, Myles Gould, John Stillwell, Helen Durham

17. Modifiable Areal Unit Problem • Lost Data

18. ESDS International

19. Teaching with International Time Series data A student’s journey through econometrics data 2nd Year Project work Student feedback Using Real Data University of Loughborough Paul Turner Screencams of teaching resources at www.youtube.com/watch?v=288KaPjoOy8 and www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX_rdCVzVVk

20. Teaching with International Time Series data Applied Development Economics Project ADEP Scientific approach to data University of Manchester Nick Weaver

21. News items • Real Data Real World • Helping economics students keep it real • Census data: from the real world for the real world

22. Recommendations: 1 • Direct contact with teachers • Through routes that teachers feel are authoritative • Find innovative ways for service staff to build direct relationships with key academics teaching in all subject areas

23. Recommendations: 2 • Utilise existing networks, conferences and journals • Promote Mimas services specifically for L&Tin forums where teaching staff may look • Be targeted • Produce short pithy articles with visual examples Picasso in his studio: Source http://slowmuse.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/picasso-and-the-ocular-rape/

24. Recommendations: 3 • Theme 3- Support open sharing of L&T materials developed around Mimas services • Open Educational Resources (OER) • Embed services into L&T • Put materials where the users are • Maximise academic exposure to ideas to support their teaching

25. Recommendations: 4 • Keep services usable and current • Up to date • Available • Integrated with other services

26. Students benefit from using real world data Data services add value and help with the data/statistical skills deficit User focused, benefits-led stories Work in partnership Open resources/ open data/ data citation Evidence base

27. Learning is Everywhere

28. “The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians… I do think those skills—of being able to access, understand, and communicate the insights you get from data analysis—are going to be extremely important. Managers need to be able to access and understand the data themselves.” Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers Google’s chief economist says executives in wired organizations need a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation. McKinsey Quarterly at http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Hal_Varian_on_how_the_Web_challenges_managers_2286

29. Thank you and questions j.carter@manchester.ac.uk Twitter: JackieCarter