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JISC BDC and DEI community of practice
This document provides a summary of a presentation by Irina Niculescu from the University of Surrey on their journey using the JISC Building Digital Capabilities service. The presentation outlines Niculescu's background and role managing digital learning at Surrey Institute of Education. It describes some of their areas of focus, including technologies for learning, professional development, and student-staff partnerships. The presentation discusses Surrey's work piloting tools and reviewing their curriculum through a digital capabilities lens. It invites attendees to explore more systemic approaches to digital capabilities and has a discussion on applying their curriculum framework in practice without oversimplifying.
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- 1. JISC BDC &DEI Community of Practice 26 May 2022 Irina Niculescu – University of Surrey Digital Learning Design and Development Manager
- 2. Presentation outline Context About me Surrey Instituteof Education Digital Learning team Journey so far - JISC Building Digital Capabilities Service Next steps Invitation
- 3. About me 8 yearsof L&D and 4 different roles: Xerox EU R&D and 3 roles at Surrey BA Sociology and Film, Fellow of Advance HE, MA in Design for learning & Higher Education Training in systemic modelling of transformation and change Currently managing the design and development stream of work in SIoE, Digital Learning Focus on academics’ CPD and Development and Student-Staff partnerships
- 4. Surrey Institute ofEducation (SIoE)
- 5. Digital Learning -Areas of work Technologies for learning and teaching Professional development and teaching Design for learning and teaching Research and innovation Student Staff Partnerships
- 6. Digital Learning? TEL?E-learning? ‘Concepts like digital education can be useful insofar as they encourage people to look closer at the design and practice of teaching and learning. They become problematic when used to close down ideas or attribute essential properties to technology.’ (Fawns, 2018: 132) Fawns, T., 2018. Postdigital Education in Design and Practice. Postdigital Science and Education,1(1), pp.132-145.
- 7. JISC Building DigitalCapabilities– journey so far 2020 – SSO issues Solved just when the pandemic started 2020 - Pilot Discovery Tool Biosciences Foundation course & student-staff partnership 2021 – Curriculum Design Review Digital Capabilities Pillar as part of Surrey’s Curriculum Framework 2022 – Next steps Collaborate with our Employability Centre and HR & Carry out research
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- 9. Invitation Explore how wecan engage with digital capabilities in a more systemic way Systems thinking is a way of making sense of the complexity of the world by looking at it in terms of wholes and relationships rather than by splitting it down into its parts. (Ramage and Karen, 2009) Ramage, M. and Shipp, K., 2009. Systems Thinkers. 1st ed. London: Springer London.
- 11. Suggested questions • Inwhat ways can we explore relationships between the elements of the framework? How and when do these change? • In practice, how can we use the framework without atomising or oversimplifying our understanding of the world? • How can we help someone who is new to the framework navigate and apply it without feeling overwhelmed? • How do we work with students as partners in this area?
- 12. Invitation • 1 houronline gathering to start a dialogue on this topic • No fixed output, we could explore: • Setting up a book/journal club • Collaborate on research • Discuss and develop workshop designs • Share your name and email via the chat if interested