Monthly Archives: November 2018

Networked values in hierarchical contexts – webinar by Dave White

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I was delighted to host two webinars this week, the second which was given by Dave White, Head of Digital Learning at the University of the Arts, London. A recording of the webinar is now available and the slides.

Dave’s work on Visitors and Residents has been explored as part of this course, as a way of reconceptualising how we think about our relationship with technology. It’s also a different way of thinking about the now debunked notion of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants.

In the webinar Dave talked to us about Networked value in Hierarchical Contexts and there were some great opportunities for participants to take part in online activities using a Padlet, which worked really well. Dave drew on the work of George Siemens and Stephen Downes on Connectivism. I was really interested in the work he has been doing recently at the University of the Arts around Open Values and this blog post provides an overview of his work and thinking to date. I’m excited to see that Catherine Cronin was involved in the work, as she will be giving a webinar to us in January.  Once again we saw a lot of connections between the two themes of the module and I hope people will enjoy watching the recording from this session.

 

Jisc Digital Capabilities by Sarah Knight and Lisa Gray

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Jisc Digital Capabilities

I was grateful to reconnect with Sarah Knight from Jisc, who joined me for a webinar with her colleague Lisa Gray yesterday to talk about the Institutional Approach towards Digital Literacies. The recording is now available and their slides. It’s interesting to see how Jisc have developed their thinking about supporting and developing both staff and student digital capabilities and how the partnership model is still an important way of supporting this.

I was also interested to hear about the Community of Practice they have set up and the meeting held at the University of Hertfordshire this week. You can find out more about the community by subscribing to their Jiscmail list. We have been using the free Jisc Digital Capabilities Discovery Tool on the module, but there are a number of features available in the subscription version that looked really interesting. Thanks for Sarah and Lisa for joining us and I hope to join them at their next event in May to share some of the ideas we have been developing on this module.

Webinar on Digital Capabilities from Jisc

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Jisc Digital Capabilities

I’m delighted that tomorrow afternoon from 2-3pm I am hosting a webinar from Sarah Knight and Lisa Gray from Jisc on developing an institutional approach to Digital Capabilities. Jisc have done a huge amount of work in this area, developing a framework and various tools to help support institutions developing both staff and student digital capabilities (or literacies as I tend to call them). Tomorrow’s webinar will be hosted in Adobe Connect and is also open to guest who can join the classroom online. There is a password on the room which is DLOP for anyone wishing to take part. There will also be a chance to ask Sarah and Lisa questions at the end and the webinar will be recorded and made available on the blog afterwards.

Slides now available for Lorna Campbell’s workshop

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Lorna Campbell. CC-BY-SA-4.0, Mike Peel, Wikimedia Commons

We had an excellent webinar yesterday with Lorna Campbell from the Open Education team at the University of Edinburgh about open education practices. The slides are now available and there is a recording from the webinar. We had some interesting questions from participants and I’m really grateful to Lorna for an excellent introduction to some of the key concepts we are discussing on our second teaching day, which takes place on Wednesday 14th November. I’d really recommend you read Lorna’s blog post about open practices as well on the Soul of Liberty: Openness, Equality and Co-creation.

Webinar on open education from Lorna Campbell

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Lorna Campbell. CC-BY-SA-4.0, Mike Peel, Wikimedia Commons

I’m delighted to announce that the second webinar being run as part of the Digital Literacies and Open Practice module will be taking place on Thursday 8th November from 3.30-4.30pm GMT. It will be given by Lorna Campbell, from the University of Edinburgh and is entitled ‘Open for all? Engaging with open education practice at the personal and institutional level.‘ Once again it will be in Adobe Connect and is open to guests if you drop me a line beforehand. We will also be recording the session and I will share the slides and recording afterwards for those who can’t join us live.

I read Lorna’s blog post on the Soul of Liberty: openness, equality and co-creation earlier in the year. It is based on a conference keynote that she gave, and it really moved me. I had already thought that open practice was important, but she explores a whole range of issues including the inevitable starting point, of what we mean by open, what open educational resources are. However the most important point of the post for me is the section that is entitled Inclusion, Exclusion and Structural Inequality. Openness is about things being free, and reducing costs, but it’s also about trying to address inequalities in education. Inequalities are all around us; who has power, who gets access to knowledge, who’s voice gets heard and it’s such a powerful part of the open movement, to try and redress that on many levels. I am really looking forward to Thursday and I hope that some of you will join us!