On Thursday 31st of October Dr Paul Mulholland attended a meeting with representatives of the UK Department for Education.

The session was held at The Open University and attendees included Susan Acland-Hood, the Permanent Secretary Department for Education, Professor Ian Pickup, PVC Students, and Professor John Domingue and Dr Paul Mulholland from KMi.

The main theme of the meeting was digital pedagogy. Paul had the opportunity to present the OU Analyse system and demo both the tutor and student facing dashboards. The presentation and ensuing discussion covered the use of Learning Analytics tools, how they can support students and the need to identify and address bias and discrimination in AI-driven learning analytics systems, which is the main objective of our current work in the Fairness Innovation Challenge.