The document discusses the 25th event of the Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group, focusing on digital narratives and transforming learning experiences for the digital age. It emphasizes the importance of student-centered learning, peer collaboration, and the creation of online resources. Announcements include changes in the program and an invitation for participation in storytelling initiatives.

1. Nottingham Trent University
8 January 2016
Andrew Middleton
Sheffield Hallam University
Chair of MELSIG
http://melsig.shu.ac.uk/@andrewmid
#MELSIGNTU
@melsiguk
Digital Narratives
(re)storying learning experiences for a digital age

2. Welcome to the 25th event
Media-Enhanced Learning Special
Interest Group
• Digital and social media
• Together
• Sharing practice
• Generating ideas
• Asking questions
• Ideas and risky thinking
• Innovation and change

3. Digital Scholars
•Informal network or co-creators
•Open journal
•Books
•Resources
•Informal online courses
•Events
•Associations: BYOD4L, TLC, Asset,
Creative Academic Magazine, etc
Please speak to me if you
would like to get more
involved in MELSIG
@andrewmid @melsiguk

4. • Changing the learning
context and the learning
environment Developing
an online resource
together
• Understanding digitally
enhanced learning
experience as narratives
Digital Narratives: (re)storying learning experiences for a digital
age
• Learning ecologies - the idea of story or narrative
recognises the uniqueness of personal learning journeys
• ...We become student-centred in our thinking
• We are not alone as students (or teachers, or aspiring
professionals)
• Transformation - Developing the digital-social habit
• Digital – always on, connect, share, create, communicate,
curate
• Social – network, co-operate, collaborate, accessible
• Personal and Social - peer enhancement as digital-socially
mediated conversation
• Finding our peers wherever they are
• Rich – video, voice, and viewpoints
• Open – redefining the spaces and approaches we use for
learning
• Authentic, ubiquitous, informal shift? – learning is ever-
present, real, unbounded, lived
(cc) ) Saad Faruque

5. Announcements
• Programme change - Chris Rowell can't
lead the session on 10 Days of
Storytelling at 15:15, so... but we are
going to begin building it anyway!
• Telling Different Stories – the Storify
Challenge day long experiment on how
we can construct rich learning stories.
Please 'feed': Rebecca Sellars
(@becksell2001), Neil Withnell
(@neilwithnell) and Graham McElearney
(@GrahamMacca).
All next week

6. Finally…
#MELSIGUoNThank you Charlie Davis and the
Nottingham Trent University
Andrew Middleton
Head of Innovation & Professional Development, QESS
Sheffield Hallam University
@andrewmid