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Moving from ‘e’ to ‘d’ – what does a Digital University really look like?
Bill JohnstonSheila MacNeill
Ascilite 2013
Overview
• Background • Introduction and explanation of matrix• Examples of use
The rise of digital
Image: www.centerdigitaled.com
“The new competition, the real threat . . . is the emergence of entirely
new models of university which are seeking to exploit the radically
changed circumstances that are the result of globalisation and the
digital revolution.”
An Avalanche is coming, Higher Education and the Revolution Ahead IPPR , March 2013
(http://www.ippr.org/publication/55/10432/an-avalanche-is-coming-higher-education-
and-the-revolution-ahead)
“There is no doubt that digital technologies have had a profound impact upon the management of learning. Institutions can now recruit, register, monitor, and report on students with a new economy, efficiency, and (sometimes) creativity yet, evidence of digital technologies producing real transformation in learning and teaching remains elusive”
Decoding Learning, the proof, promise and potential of digital educationNesta, November 2012 (http://www.nesta.org.uk/library/documentsDecodingLearningReport_v12.pdf)
What is a digital university?
Where is a digital university?
Image: newsroom.cisco.com
A Digital University: key themes
Digital Participation
Information Literacy
Learning Environments
Curriculum & Course Design
Our model for the digital universityDigital Participation Information Literacy
*Glocalization *Widening access*Civic role and responsibilities*Community engagement*Networks (human and digital)*Technological affordances
*High level concepts and perceptions influencing practice*Staff & student engagement and development*Effective development and use of infrastructure
Curriculum and Course Design Learning Environment
*Constructive alignment*Curriculum representations, course management, pedagogical innovation*Recruitment and marketing*Reporting, data, analytics
*Physical and digital*Pedagogical and social*Research and enquiry*Staff and Resources
Information Literacy
• "Information literacy is the adoption of appropriate information behaviour to identify, through whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, leading to wise and ethical use of information in society.”
(Johnston, B. & Webber, S. (2003) Information literacy in higher education: a review and case study. Studies in higher education)
Learning Environment:Key features
• prepare students for lifelong, self-regulated, cooperative and work-based learning;
• foster high quality student learning;• change teaching methods in response to students’
increasing metacognitive and self-regulatory skills, • increases the complexity of the problems dealt with
gradually and systematically.
Vermunt, J.D, Student Learning and University Teaching (2007), British Journal of Educational Psychology
Process orientated teaching: key features
• lecturer skills - diagnostician, challenger, monitor, evaluator and educational developer.
• self-regulation for students e.g. collaborative working spaces, complex projects and personal reflective spaces.
• Institutional support to encourage this type of student in a self regulating researcher culture.
And finally
• Take our model• Work with it and build it • Extend our conversation
Contact Details• Bill Johnston [email protected]• Sheila MacNeill [email protected] @sheilmcn
Blog posts: http://bit.ly/wUzP2p http://howsheilaseesit.wordpress.com/Examples: University of Dundee
http://www.slideshare.net/sheilamac/dundee-symposium-31may13-21833957
University of Greenwich: https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/compass/article/view/79/121
Ascilite13 Workshop materials