We had the opportunity to present our project to the JISC Experts meeting yeserday along with the other project in our cluster. Following on form a short pitch, Pat and I talked about the project and the various interventions at the Univerity of Reading, and focused on the student workshops on digital litercaies that Pat has been running with groups of students. The “learning to learn” approach was perticulary commended by the audience. Our two audience groups were very engaging and attendees wanted to find out more about the evidence base approach that we are taking in our project.
Poster for the JISC Experts meeting
Helen Beetham gave an account of what the Digital Literacies Programme had achieved so far, drawing on the baseline reports and progress of the projects. Dominic Passfield, Student Engagement Coordinator, QAA, talked about Students at the heart of QAA (http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/Quality-Code-Chapter-B5.pdf) which generated an interesting discussion. Diana Laurillard presented the Learning Designer, a tool that can support and drive innovation through enabling collaboration among teachers – somehting that might be of ineterest to our new lecturer programme. FinallyDawn Wood, Leeds Metropolitan University, presented Coaching to Learn (PC3 Curriculum Design Project), part of which is a framework of questions that enables students to reflect on their skills – of interest for the Digitally Ready project in terms of digital skills articulation.
You might find some new JISC resources of interest: “Learning in a Digital Age: Extending higher education opportunities for lifelong learning“, “Designing for Participant Engagement with Blackboard Collaborate” and e-portfolios .
The presentations and handouts together with links to the projects websites areavailable from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elearningexperts/july12.aspx