Background
This conference will provide a platform for experts from the international community, as well as key South African role players, in the field of higher education data analytics to engage in conversations around evidence-based practices and national systemic interventions aimed at student success.
Important dates:
Call for proposals:
29 April - 21 May 2025
Notification of Acceptance:
2 June 2025
Registration:
1 May - 20 June 2025
Call for proposals
We invite proposals around the evidence-based practices for student success in the following themes:
● Student Support – including holistic student supports, academic and peer advising, first year experience, senior student experience, mental health, design/systems thinking, AI chatbots, and gender-focussed interventions.
● Use of Data – including equity performance gaps, tracking and interventions of high impact modules, student tracking, data ethics and governance, know your students and use of AI in analysis.
● Institutional Change – including student success committees, use of ICAT, student success frameworks, policies, monitoring and evaluation and mental health frameworks.
● Teaching and Learning – including digital transformation and use of AI, learning design, authentic learning and assessment, curriculum, literacy and mathematics, or open education resources.
● Student Voice – focussing on how the student voice has been embedded or used to inform student success practices or understand the student journey.
● Beyond Completion – considering employability, graduate attributes, transition to post-graduate studies, self-employment and entrepreneurship.