Establishing the digital City limits

Posted by Zak Mensah on Tuesday 05 July 2011 at 5:21pm
Tags: e-learning | mobile | presentations | user experience | vle |

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Below is the outline I submitted:

Outline

The digital landscape for education. We hear so many different opinions on topics such as digital natives, digital literacy and digital technologies such as ‘mobile’ that it is hard to know where to begin. In this session I identify where we currently are in UK education, where some of us are headed and what may be on the horizon to help us enhance the learner experience.

My aim was to highlight some of the topics that may/should be of interest to Bath Spa in light of other institutions current positions, what JISC is pursuing in the next 1-2yrs and what I personally felt may of interest to a mixed audience.

Essentially I covered:

• Where are we locally and nationally
• The student online experience
• Mobile is already here
• Introducing digital literacies
• #5 topics to investigate

I was pleasantly surprised by the post talk questions and comments which included my views on: the open movement, second life environments, the fuzzy notion of ‘contact’ time and the scary ‘free everything’ future. The rest of the day saw various members of staff run sessions on Blackboard tools and online assessment which were a pleasure to sit in on.

References

JISC Digital Media

 Visitors and residents principle  Dave White (video)

Student as producer
University of Bristol wifi status

University of Bristol wifi locations

University of Bristol mymobilebristol 

JISC Mobile review

Mobile web apps briefing paper

The essential elements of digital literacies

 JISC Inform - digital literacies    

A pedagogy of abundance, Martin Weller

Introducing Creative Commons

 JISC Funding call for assessment and feedback 

Open Univeristy e-books 

Mobile case studies , John Traxler

The Horizon report 2011

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