Jane Challinor teaches a first year module on study skills and research skills for health and social care students. She wants to focus the module more on developing digital literacy skills, such as searching for information online and using social networks to collaborate. Her goals are for students to be more confident and discriminating when researching online, to manage their own personal learning environments, and to collaborate constructively. She plans to use a problem-based learning approach that is highly interactive and student-led. The module will make use of the institution's virtual learning environment but also social media outside the institution. Students will work in groups on projects around course-related research topics using a variety of tools.

1. Jane Challinor - Let’s get digital!
tags: oldsmooc, dreambazaar, digital literacy, social media, research, information
literacy, PLE
Your situation (context)
Describe the material and social I teach a first year ug module in study skills and intro to
characteristics of the environment research skills for students in health and social care. I would
in which you operate. Where will like this to be focussed much more on developing skills in
your project take place? Who searching for information on the internet and using social
networks to collaborate in learning - keywords: digital literacy,
are the main actors involved?
information literacy, digital identity and creating a personal
Include images, videos, sketches learning environment
- anything that would help others
understand the opportunities and
constraints you are dealing with.
The change you would like to see (challenge)
What do you hope to achieve? I would like the students to be more confident and more
What would be different if you discriminating when researching via the internet; I would like
succeed? them to be confident managers of their own PLE and confident
and constructive collaborators in learning. The difference
would manifest itself in better quality research underpinning
assessments; collaborative learning conversations on the VLE
and in social networks; greater learner independence.
How you might go about bringing that change
What is your pedagogical This will make use of the VLE (institution based) but inevitably
approach? Which technologies will take students outside the institutional boundaries into social
you use to implement it, and how? networking media. The pedagogical approach - problem based
learning, highly interactive, student led.
show and tell about different tools and then get students to
develop projects in groups around specific areas of research
related to the course. BYOT, IT suites in university, f2f and
online delivery/activity