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Two webinars now available

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Katharine and Jo at the book launch for Digital Literacy Unpacked

We now have two more recorded webinars available from the module Digital Literacies and Open Practice. The first was a bonus webinar given a few weeks ago by Sam Aston and Chris Millson from the University of Manchester. Sam and Chris teach on the module ‘Open Knowledge in Higher Education‘ which inspired me to set up this course after I was a guest lecturer on it a few years ago running a session with Chris Morrison. Their webinar has a number of activities you can take part in to help you think about what open practice means and how to make small changes in your own teaching. A recording is available here.

The second webinar is from the editors of one of the set readings for this course, Jo Parker and Katharine Reedy who wrote Digital Literacies Unpacked. They talk about the approach to learning design at the Open University and how digital literacies, (but also employability and other skills) are embedded into the curriculum. A recording and the slides are available.

Kicking off Digital Literacies and Open Practice 2019-2020

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Photo by Leyre Labarga on Unsplash

I’m delighted that this module kicks off again on Thursday 17th October with a new cohort of keen participants. This year the module has also been offered to LIS Students at City and a few have opted to take the course, so they will be joining students on our MA in Academic Practice. I’m really looking forward to having their perspective and contributions. The one thing I really liked last year was allowing people to focus on the aspects of digital literacy and open practice that really appealed to them and to dig into the literature to inform their thinking. You could probably base an entire module on each concept, so trying to cover everything is really difficult, but I found myself wanting to add in more to my teaching materials and not take anything out when reviewing the slides last week!

Feedback last year for the module was really positive, so the pressure is on to keep the standard as high as before. I’ve had a really useful chat with colleagues Sam Aston and Chris Millson at University of Manchester, who teach their module Open Knowing in Higher Education. It was being invited to give a guest workshop as part of their module that really inspired me to create this module, so I hope I have been able to share some of my ideas with them as well.

I’ve also been overwhelmed with the support I’ve received from external colleagues who agreed to once again give up their time to be part of the webinar series. The webinars are open to everyone and the first of these will be on Tuesday 22nd October and given by copyright games enthusiast and policy expert Chris Morrison from the University of Kent – I’ll share a link to the Adobe Connect classroom next week on the blog again but here it is.

The full line up of webinars are on the website now and also you can still access the recordings from last year if you missed them. I’m using the hashtag #CityDLOP if anyone wants to tweet about the module and I have just about got my Moodle site up and running. So wish me luck!

Catherine Cronin webinar on Critical digital literacies, data literacies, and open practice

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I’m delighted to announce that on Friday, January 11th, 12-1pm we have the final webinar as part of the module EDM122. The webinar will be given by Catherine Cronin, Strategic Education Developer at the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education in Ireland. 

Catherine tells us…..

As educators in an increasingly digital, networked culture, we are called upon to do a herculean range of things: manage our digital identities, assess a never-ending range of digital tools (and master at least some of them), understand copyright and open licensing,  

publish openly, share openly, and not least, manage the continually evolving risks of all of these activities. And we support our students in doing the same. Open educational practices can provide powerful ways for us to improve educational access, enhance learning, and empower learners  — but openness is not a panacea. The heart of all approaches to open education and open practice should be to develop critical digital (and data) literacies and to foster agency on the part of all learners and educators regarding whether, how, and in what contexts they choose to be open.

Open Education, Open Questions. EDUCAUSE Review, 23 October, 2017.

You can follow her on Twitter: @catherinecronin and her website/blog: http://catherinecronin.net/

The webinar is open to all and available in Adobe Connect, with no password required.

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.

 

Webinar 1: An introduction to Copyright Literacy

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Jane and Chris at CopyCamp2018

Next Friday 26th October we have our first webinar for Digital Literacies and Open Practice. Based on the chapter in Reedy and Parker’s Digital Literacy Unpacked, Chris Morrison who is the Copyright, Licensing and Policy Manager at the University of Kent will talk about the concept of copyright literacy. Chris and I have worked together since 2014 on research into different aspects of copyright and it’s impact of those working in libraries, the cultural heritage sector and in higher education. We’ve also developed several educational resources to teach people about copyright is accessible ways, including Copyright the Card Game, which you can play at City University on the 2nd November, and the Publishing Trap, which is a board game about scholarly communication and publishing choices. We will be playing this game on the final teaching day of the module on 12th December.

Tune in to the webinar live to join in the discussions with Chris, or you can watch the recording which we’ll post online shortly after the event (Guests are welcome, please drop me a line if you want to take part). The webinar will be an ideal time to ask those tricky questions about copyright (e.g. what is the difference between fair use and fair dealing, or who owns my recorded lectures or teaching materials!) You can also discuss how understanding copyright might help us become more open in our approaches to teaching, learning and research and how it’s all part of developing our own and our students’ digital literacies.