Student as Producer and OER
enhancing learning through digital scholarship
Sue Watling: Centre for Educational Research and Development
Student as Producer Conference: June 2013
Digital Scholarship
• Ernest Boyer: Scholarship Reconsidered:
Priorities of the Professoriate (1997).
• Research-engaged/informed teaching.
• Four strands of scholarship: Discovery,
Application, Teaching, Integration.
• Digital Scholarship strand of S as P.
• Technology as enhancer…
• ….or not?
Digital Pedagogy
• Digital dimensions of teaching, learning,
research in 21st century.
• George Siemens (2005) Connectivism: A
Learning theory for a Digital Age
http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Jan_05/article01.htm
• Digital literacies: digital literacy defines
those capabilities which fit an individual for
living, learning and working in a digital
society (JISC 2011)
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Open Educational Resources
• MIT OpenCourseWare project MIT (2002)
• Creative Commons licencing
http://www.creativecommons.org
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• ‘Embedding OER Practice’ (2012)
http://oer.lincoln.ac.uk
• JISC/HEA funded 12 month project at the
University of Lincoln
Embedding OER Practice
• Funded under the HEA/JISC OER
Programme Phase 3
• Sustainable strategic approaches to
adoption of philosophy and practice of
open education and the use, reuse and
repurposing of open educational resources
Barriers to embedding OER practice
• Resistance to sharing content for free.
• Insufficient time for content development.
• Lack of central support for content
development, especially multimedia
• Concerns around IP and copyright.
• Lack of confidence to make content public.
• Quality assurance concerns.
• Spotlighted digital ways of working.
Embedding OER Practice teams
1. Supporting student transition with OER.
2. OER to support early reflective writing.
3. Embedding ‘employability’ in the undergraduate
curriculum through OER.
4. OER for PEER: Practice Education Electronic
Resources.
5. Exploring and embedding the use of OERs on
PGCert/HE…and beyond.
6. Behind the Scenes recommendations for technical
support for OER policy and practice.
Sharing Practice:
open approaches to teaching and learning
A one day conference at the University of Lincoln 22 June 2012
OER: Digital Literacies/Scholarship
OER offer:
skills to navigate, search, select, download, store
and manage multiple file formats, use a range of
digital tools for reuse and repurposing, enhancing
public digital profiles, awareness of issues of
authority, reliability, authenticity, provenance,
copyright, licencing, inclusive practice, social
justice, digital citizenship, the presentation of self
online via personal and professional identities etc.
TELEDA
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Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age
Short course 30 M Level CATS
Delivered and assessed online
Experiential
Learning Blocks: digital pedagogy, open
education, online communication,
collaboration, assessment, feedback
• Participatory Action Research Project
Digital Staff/Graduate Attributes
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Informed expertise with digital information
Appropriate awareness of data protection
Manage a variety of digital environments
Match appropriate digital tools for tasks
Maintain public/private online boundaries
Stay safe, avoiding scams, viruses etc
Demonstrate sustainable use of resources
Critical awareness of potential for exclusion
Sue Watling
Centre for Educational Research and
Development
University of Lincoln
http://suewatling.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk
[email protected]
Twitter @suewatling