Practice Matrix · Meso

Infrastructure, Tools and Procurement

Institutional governance · Licensing, institutional deployments, integration with the virtual learning environment and vendor arrangements.

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The reading of this intersection

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Institutions build a place in which to trial tools before they build a service. One reports experimental environments bringing together a feedback centre, automated grading, personalised support and a collaboration hub with access to several models for testing, and identifies them explicitly as experimental. A second established a research unit whose infrastructure was still being set up at the time of reporting. A third extended access to a commercial model to all staff, teaching and administrative alike, describing the change as a move from isolated use towards integration across the university.

The sequence of sandbox, unit and licence describes how institutional capability accumulates in this material. It accumulates not through procurement decisions taken once, but through successive enlargements of who is permitted to trial what.

Who, and where

The actors carrying out the practice and where they are. Where a source does not name the institution, no attribution is made.

Institutions and actors

Anadolu University
FernUniversität in Hagen
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Countries

Türkiye
Germany
Spain

Context

Higher education

How it was done

Each record stands with its imprint, its short reading and the sentence found in the source. Quotations are not shortened, so that a reader can check the inference.

Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Research Unit

A dedicated research unit was established in 2023 to study developments in data analytics and artificial intelligence in higher education and to run projects, with training planned at several educational levels. The institution reports that the infrastructure of the unit was still being set up at the time of the survey.

Institution: Anadolu University
Country: Türkiye
Delivery model: not stated in the source
Context: Higher education
Contributed by: not stated in the source
Year: 2023
Maturity: Piloted
Scalability: Established
Transferability: Established
Source report: D3.1

Evidence

The institution reports the unit as established but its infrastructure as ongoing, which places the practice between announcement and operation.

In 2023, the Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Research Unit was established. The infrastructure setup of the unit is still ongoing.

D3.1, p. 32

Experimental environments for LLMs, generative AI and learning analytics

The university runs experimental environments that bring a feedback centre, automated grading, personalised support and an immersive collaboration hub together with access to various models for testing. The arrangement gives staff a bounded space in which tools can be trialled before any decision about institutional deployment.

Institution: FernUniversität in Hagen
Country: Germany
Delivery model: Fully online
Context: Higher education
Contributed by: not stated in the source
Year: 2024
Maturity: Piloted
Scalability: Established
Transferability: Established
Source report: D3.1

Evidence

The source names the environments as experimental, so the record is coded as a trial arrangement rather than an established service.

Experimental environments (for use and research of LLMs, GenAI and Learning Analytics): Feedback Centre,

D3.1, p. 32

Institution-wide access to a commercial model for all staff

An administrator describes access to a commercial model being extended to all staff, both teaching and administrative, and frames it as a move from isolated or experimental use to integration across the university. Universal access changes the equity question from who can afford a subscription to what the institution has licensed.

Institution: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Country: Spain
Delivery model: Fully online
Context: Higher education
Contributed by: not stated in the source
Year: 2026
Maturity: Established
Scalability: Established
Transferability: Established
Source report: R3

Evidence

An administrator of the institution describes the change and its scope; a teacher at another institution reports the same pattern with a different vendor, which supports reading it as a trend rather than a single case.

The most significant change has been that all UOC staff now have access to Gemini Pro.

R3, p. 3.2.1