Slides from a presentation at the 2013 Designs on E-Learning conference, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.

1. My Digital Life
Improving student engagement
with digital projects at UAL
Charlotte Webb
@otheragent

2. Why?
 inconsistent approach
 students engaged too late

3. What is
student
engagement?

4. “
the interaction between the time, effort and
other relevant resources invested by both
students and their institutions intended to
optimise the student experience and enhance
the learning outcomes and development of
students and the performance and reputation of
the institution
“
Trowler & Trowler 2010

5. Foci
 student learning
 structure & process
 identity

6. Co-creation of
change
Turner 2010

7. Timing

8. Reproduction of Sanders & Stappers, 2008

9. Reproduction of Turner, 2010 adapted from Sanders and Stappers, 2008

10. Co-creation
Digital culture

11. 
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
traffic
revenue
innovation
sustainability

12. Case study 1

17. “
“
for it to have integrity and for it to be real,
we couldn’t have started without students
being really pivotal to the project

18. “
“
I didn’t think it had the same sort of
stuffy formulaic feeling of maybe
some of the other web presences of
UAL. I guess it’s again the big
organization thing, (which) is always
going to dictate a lot about style and
all of that kind of stuff

19. “
“
Commonplace is basically speaking to
students in a medium they relate to

20. Role of
student(s)
Developer
Content creator/node network

21. Zoe’s Advice
 Listen
 Take a risk
 Tutors are oracles
 Face to face is essential
 Invested students promote stuff

22. BARRIERS?
Commonplace

25. ???
Charlotte Webb
@otheragent
c.webb@arts.ac.uk
mydigitallife.myblog.arts.ac.uk/