Notepad:DSALT Terms
Data Stewardship & Analytics for Learning & Teaching (DSALT) Working Group
Terms of Reference
Focus: Determine existing, potential, and approved access and use to Student and Instructor data for enhancing teaching and learning at TRU, and propose TRU decision-making on access and use processes, governance and policy.
Deliverables:
a) Development of principles and the scope they apply to
b) Student consent guidelines and sample
c) List of data sources, relevant systems and access rules
d) List of relevant polices & policy needing revising
e) Guidelines and mechanisms for review for decisions about technology, policy and implementation for access and use of student data.
f) A webpage (repository, hub) for students, faculty, about policy and governance of data stewardship and analytics.
Scope: Students’ and Instructors’ data from all sources within TRU and through TRU agreements (including software agreements) for sufficient consideration of existing use and access.
Report to: Teaching and Learning Committee
Role: group, informing, providing insight & review, approvals. Expertise, transferability, credibility and relevance.
Engage by: monthly report, review & provide feedback, approve pilots, make informal and formal recommendations, receive working group reports and make decisions.
Committee Structure of Data Stewardship & Analytics for Learning & Teaching (DSALT) working group
Role: meet to receive task group reports & decide next steps; recommend to TLC)
Co-chairs (facilitating, timelines, processes): Brian Lamb & Carolyn Hoessler
Task groups (deliverable focused; work between working group meetings; report to working group taskforce; have working meetings with minimal tasks; membership based on specific topics such as data warehouse/storage/accessing; student consent policy; reporting and external release).
(Current) Membership:
IT – Hugh Burley (security and privacy)
IPE –
Library/Faculty – Amy Paterson
ID/Faculty – Michelle Harrison
Faculty eLearning Coordinator – Brenna Clarke Gray
Dean – Gregory Anderson
Privacy – Laurel Wale
Faculty – Andrew Fergus (SOBE), Sasha Kondrashov (EDSW)
Undergraduate Student – Dipak Parmar
Graduate Student –
Indigenous Representative
Faculty of Student Development (Early Alert, Student Affairs)
Registrar; Enrollment Services
Approved by working group members on November 25, 2020.