#PSEWEB 2015 Keynote: Falling in Love (again) with Analytics in #highered [VIDEO + SLIDES]

Keynote, Analytics, Love, Nicest Audience Ever and… Edith Piaf

I’m back at the office after 2 great days attending and speaking at the 2015 edition of the PSEWeb Conference (kind of the Canadian flavor of the HighEdWeb conference) in Montreal.

It’s been a blast especially as I got a chance to give a keynote about a topic I’m crazy about: digital analytics in higher education (I know… awkward).

.@karinejoly delivering the morning keynote at #PSEWEB in Montreal: pic.twitter.com/DTgDKUsjWM

— Tom Cochrane (@tomcochrane) July 28, 2015

I’ve given many talks over the years – and went through a few technical issues (it comes with the territory as many speakers will tell you).

This time, my nifty iPhone clicker app played an interesting trick on me.

Everything worked beautifuly until I was about 40 minutes into the presentation… Yep, every speaker’s worst nightmare, but the attendees were so great (quite frankly I don’t know what went through my head) that the nightmare turned into something quite special you might have heard about if you were following the hashtag.

My friend, Annalisa, decided at the last minute to periscope the keynote, so I’m able to share with you this very special moment in the video – I’ve edited for length – below (forgive the video orientation due to Periscope’s obession with vertical frame):

Missed this keynote about Analytics in Higher Ed? Watch the 30-min Screencast!

In this talk I shared my insights on why analytics can be so difficult in higher education as well as stories from 7 of your colleagues who managed to make it work. There we also some guiding principles and pieces of advice from the 2 experts, Liz Gross and Joshua Dodson, teaching Analytics at Higher Ed Experts. The goal was to inspire and help you reflect on your own practice – so there were no “recipes” per say.

So, here’s the 30-minute screencast of my PSEWEB 2015 Keynote: Falling in love (again) with Analytics.

When I work on a new presentation, I usually spend close to 40 hours from conception to production. So spending 2 more hours recording and producing its screencast seems to make a lot of sense – especially if more people can benefit from it.

[Disclaimer] BTW, when I say “benefit,” I don’t mean literaly, I love to share but a kitten dies every time an overworked content marketer lifts somebody else’s work to republish/repurpose it without proper attribution as it’s been the case recently with some of my SnapChat posts. You know, that’s what they called plagiarism in college. ;-) [/Disclaimer]

Don’t have 30 minutes and want the slides?

You’ll miss all the explanations, but no problem, here they are just for you:

Hope you find this useful. If you do, please share with your colleagues and friends working in higher education.