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1. Can student-staff partnerships support the development of digital
teaching and learning practices?
Alex Patel and Bethany Cox, University of Leicester
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Developing digital capabilities?
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Using a digital literacies approach
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Practices
Skills
Functional access
Academic
literacies
Study skills
Identity
Academic
socialisation
Lea and Street, 2006 Sharpe & Beetham, 2010; and Bennett, 2014
REFERENCES:
 Bennett, L. (2014).
Learning from the early
adopters: developing the
digital practitioner. Research
in Learning Technology, 22,
1-13.  Lea, M., & Street, B.
(2006). The "Academic
Literacies" Model: Theory
and Applications. Theory
into Practice, 45(4), 346-351.
 Sharpe, R., & Beetham, H.
(2010). Understanding
Students' uses of
Technology for Learning:
Towards Creative
Appropriation. In R. B.
Sharpe, H. Beetham, & S.
De Freitas (Eds.), Rethinking
Learning for a Digital Age:
How Learners are Shaping
their Own Experiences (pp.
85-99). London, England
and New York, NY:
Routledge. 

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…and staff-student partnerships
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Students bring an
essential
perspective on what
it is like to learn in a
digital environment

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How do the partnerships work?
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Community of Practice
Pedagogy-led Sustainable
Whole cohort Recognition

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How do the partnerships work?
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Community of Practice
Pedagogy-led Sustainable
Whole cohort Recognition

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How do the partnerships work?
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Community of Practice
Pedagogy-led Sustainable
Whole cohort Recognition

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Who’s involved?
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Led by pedagogy…
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Sean Crevier, @busedcrev

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…to address a specific educational need
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How can we help
students to learn in
unfamiliar
environments… imagine
the distractions of a
ward round

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Student perspective is essential
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‘no digital resource
should be created
without the
perspective of a
student’
- Innovator

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Working with students is enjoyable
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Student perspectives were
‘motivating’
‘inspiring’
‘fun’
and
‘illuminating’

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Recognition of expertise
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‘Next to excellence is
the appreciation of it.’
William Makepeace
Thackeray

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Developing a community of practice
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Community of Practice

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Projects cluster into themes…
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Project: case study 1
» Reviews of student learning apps
› Need: students and lecturers don’t know
which learning apps to use.
› Solution: Collation and review of learning
apps by student group
› Olivia Bennett & NicolaClague-Baker
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Project: case study 2
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» Choose your own
adventure in
chemistry lab safety
› Need: develop higher
level thinking around
safety guidance
› Solution: text-based
adventure on lab safety
› TabithaWatson &
Duncan Parker

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Projects: case study 3
»Business SchoolVirtual
Welcome Pack
› Need: students struggle to
orient themselves on arrival on
campus
› Solution: 360 degreeVR tour
of campus as part of pre-
induction materials to help
Business students transition to
HE
› Millie Reed & MatthewAllen
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Benefits of student-staff partnerships?
"I may not have been so willing to try out new things
without the student's motivation"
Karl, Digital Innovator
"I really feel like I can contribute, as a student, to the
teaching and learning quality here at the university."
Ivana, Digital Associate
"I get to create something and improve my own curriculum
for the future"
Thanin, Digital Associate
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Thank you
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Try out some of the
project outputs over
lunch in the Coffee
Area.