Presentation of Dr Kay Hack at the Digital Skills Gap PLA (Peer Learning Activity) hosted by SRCE in Zagreb, Croatia

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Innovative approaches to changing
and enhancing digital practice

2. Dr Kay Hack
Dr Kay Hack SFHEA
Academic Lead (STEM)
Higher Education Academy

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Who are the Higher Education Academy?
• UK Professional Standards Framework
HE Teacher Development: Developing
Digital Capabilities
Insights from our international staff
development programmes
Overview

4. About the HEA
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is the UK based international body which
champions teaching quality.
We focus on the contribution of teaching as part of the wider student learning
experience.
Over a decade of experience and a strong evidence base of what works.
Supporting the transformation of teaching in over 20 countries.
• Over 250 partner universities (UK, Gulf, China, Thailand, USA, Australia and New Zealand)
• Over 96,000 individual Fellows across the world
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Certificate in Learning and Teaching
• Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
• Beykent University, Turkey
Skills Development Workshop
• Pakistan
• Uruguay
General Teaching Development Work

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Professional Standards Framework for
Teaching and Supporting Learning in
Higher Education (PSF)
An established global benchmark that
maps out the elements of successful
teaching
Informs all of our staff development
activity
Underpins the award of HEA Fellowships
Professional Standards in Teaching
PSF

7. HEA Fellows outside of the UK by Country and Category
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Figures correct as of 1 June 2017

8. 8
Areas
of
Activity
Professional
Values
Core
Knowledge

9. Core
Knowledge
Subject
material (K1)
Methods for
T&L (K2)
How students
learn (K3)
Use and value of
learning
technologies (K4)
Evaluating
effectiveness of
teaching (K5)
Quality assurance
and enhancement
implications (K6)
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10. Professional
Values
Respect learners and
diverse learning
communities (V1)
Equality of
opportunity for
learners (V2)
Use evidence –
informed
approaches to
teaching (V3)
Acknowledge wider
context of higher
education and the
implications for
professional practice (V4)
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11. Developing Digital Capabilities: Barriers to
changing practice?
• Workload
• Fear
• Cognitive dissonance
• Bertrand Russell

12. Visitors and Residents Mapping
JISC Digital Capabilities Framework
Viewpoint cards (Ulster University)
Mapping personal and professional
digital practice
Identify digital capabilities: strengths &
gaps
Identify strategies for enhancing digital
capability
Developing Digital Capabilities Workshop

13. Mapping personal and professional digital practice
• Use the Visitors and Residents Model
Step 1:

14.  encouraged educators to expect
that their students of the ‘native’
generation were ‘highly adept
with technology’,
 it made them feel that they would
always be ‘one-step-behind’ their
native students.
Natives and Immigrants (Prensky,2004)
(Bennet et al, 2008).

15. (White and Le Cornu, 2011)
The Visitors & Residents Paradigm
Visitors Residents

16. A Visitor or a Resident?
Visitor Resident

18. Social
Institutional
Visitor Resident
“Shovel-ware”

19. Visitor or a Resident?
Does it matter?
Visitor
Resident
“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or
conversation?

20. Identifying Digital Capabilities
• Use JISC Digital Capabilities Model
Step 2:

21. “The new literacies of the Internet and other ICTs include the skills, strategies, and
dispositions necessary to successfully use and adapt to the rapidly changing
information and communication technologies and contexts that continuously
emerge in our world and influence all areas of our personal and professional lives.
These new literacies allow us to use the Internet and other ICTs to identify
important questions, locate information, critically evaluate the usefulness of that
information, synthesize information to answer those questions, and then
communicate the answers to others.” (p1572). Leu et al (2004)
Digital Literacies?
Digital Literacies?
“those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working
in a digital society.”

22. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-digital-literacies

23. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-digital-literacies
Digital capabilities: the six elements
©Jisc

25. Identify strategies for enhancing digital capability
• Viewpoint cards
• Information Literacy (Ulster University)
• Bespoke Set
Step 3:

26. Conclusions
Heterogeneous Landscape
• Some excellent practice in place
• Enthusiasm for tools and technologies
For developing countries:
• Online learning is needed to develop the HE sector required to meet country needs
• Students and staff need to develop digital capabilities
• To make online or blended learning effective
• For the needs of knowledge economy
• Recognising need to develop global networks
Challenges – power supply, WiFi, access to devices, personal security
Open Education Resources are critical

27. With thanks & ideas from..
Visitors and Residents: Dave White & Alison Le Cornu
• Information and resources are available here:
• http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/evaluating-services/
CASCADE project University of Exeter, JISC
Information Literacy Viewpoint cards (Ulster University)

28. “My dear Kepler , I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity
of the common herd. What do you have to say about the principal
philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of as
asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the
telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the
opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do
these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth”
Galileo in a letter to German mathematician Johannes Kepler, 17th Century