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Smart Futures – Digital Literacy in the Disciplines

Smart Futures – Digital Literacy in the Disciplines. Engaging students as partners, inclusively. Terry McAndrew @ terrymc. July2013. Outline. Digital literacy background JISC ‘ vs ’ HEA – compete or collaborate? Digital Literacy in the Disciplines

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Smart Futures – Digital Literacy in the Disciplines

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  1. Smart Futures – Digital Literacy in the Disciplines • Engaging students as partners, inclusively • Terry McAndrew @terrymc • July2013

  2. Outline • Digital literacy background • JISC ‘vs’ HEA – compete or collaborate? • Digital Literacy in the Disciplines • Tactics: developing a ‘bottom-up’ approach; Integrating with ‘Changing the Learning Landscape’ • Adopting a more inclusive approach for student partnerships • Developing role digital literacies, by discipline • Workshop (following) – JISC and HEA working together • Projects and resources

  3. JISC and HEA (generalised) • JISC • Technology focus • Large small budget programmes e.g. OER • Participants: technology background/familiarity • Institution shift perspective • Service support network e.g. RSCs, TechDis, Legal, Netskills… • HEA • Pedagogy focus • Small  medium budget programmes e.g. TDG • Participants: pedagogy background/familiarity • Discipline shift perspective • HE Institution ‘network’ (post Subject Centres) e.g. cluster groups TRANSFERABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY?

  4. Fishing or Farming ? Search Repositories What practices do we need to change, and how?

  5. Better sharing and collaboration

  6. A ‘simple’ example

  7. Digital literacies? • Academic literacies • The skills and practices required to function effectively for academic activities e.g. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) • Discipline literacies • Knowing the paths required to teach the discipline to others; from the foundations to the frontiers. Understanding learner needs - leading to the next step • Discovering gaps and investigating outliers • Digital literacies • Understanding the effective affordances that digital technologies can offer, in the context of the above – new ways to do new things.

  8. JISC - the Design Studio Image here with wiki pinks Use of RSS feeds Measuring impact – difficult to capture whole 2nd generation influence (project tagging? Enhancement R&R for staff?) Comprehensive wiki for recent major programmes Threshold issues Institution ‘champions’ Programme Synthesis and Evaluation RSS Feed

  9. Further information

  10. Digital Literacy Approaches (OU) Understanding and engaging in digital practice Finding information Critically evaluate information and tools Manage and communicate Collaborate and share But other models exist…

  11. Discipline issues • Many similarities for developing digital literacies • Building on common core • Discipline needs e.g. data • Inclusive of all student needs • Recognises and updates staff in all related roles • Granularity: small and sharable practices • In effect – the ‘bottom up’ complimentary approach, informed from above

  12. Professional exchange and tradition “Incoming!!

  13. Ways to stay informed? Eachofthefollowinghaveadvantagesanddisadvantages – are they really ‘post’ related? Personal network – knowing who to know individually Developing/informing/following institutional policies Social networking: Sharing common interests through tags and tweets Webinars and Conferences Publications Social bookmarking Curation networks

  14. Digital Literacies in the Discipline • Discipline - ‘bottom-up’ initiatives • 8 Projects selected from discipline clusters (2*4) • Employability (2), Cyber/Health psychology, Teacher-Training, College-based HE, Student Outreach projects, Languages • OER with CC licenced content • Student partnerships alignment – empowering students to create Learning Objects in context • Xerte 2.0 ‘core’ for resource development: freedom, peer-networking, accessibility and mobility advantages

  15. Digital Literacies beyond CLL • Changing the Learning Landscape • 12 workshops to develop and exchange practice • >30 Mini-projects to embed CLL ideas and ethos • Digital Literacy enhancements into curriculum

  16. Building on JISC Programmes • Projects developed under the JISC Digital Literacies programme were generally not discipline focussed • HEA Pedagogic emphasis provides complementary discipline approach • Small projects to promote DL in situ - Pilots for programme-level changes • Future Digital Literacies workshop materials from JISC • Using Design Studio outcomes to best effect • (Further details from mid-July 2013)

  17. Tools and delivery are now beyond ‘control’ – user preference leads Collaboration is essential to optimise opportunity Disciplines as communities Role-based digital literacies?

  18. Open Innovation – wide range of partners

  19. http://tinyurl.com/newxertedemo

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