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Digital Diversity in Higher Education from SRHE Conference 2015
1. Digital Diversity in
Higher Education
Sue Watling
s.watling@hull.ac.uk
@suewatling
Academic Advisor for Technology Enhanced Learning
University of Hull
SRHE Conference December 2015
4. Visitors and Residents Typology of digital
engagement (White and Le Cornu, 2011)
Paper available from
http://firstmonday.org/article/view/3171/3049
5. e-learning and e-teaching
“…there is no doubt that the transition from being an effective
classroom practitioner to an effective online practitioner is
complex and challenging…” research data
7. • Blackboard has a lot to offer. We have not been using it to its
potential …i.e. for student participation and not just instructions.
• I will look into the possibility of sharing my social bookmarking site
with my students in order to promote the use of quality and peer-
reviewed articles in their assignments and reports.
• I have been introduced to things I would probably otherwise not
have encountered such as Social Bookmarking, and participated in
Blogs and Wikis which again, I probably would not have done.
• The emotions involved with being a student helped me reconnect
with the Student viewpoint. This has impacted on my teaching style.
• There has been extensive opportunity to consider the evidence-base
for the use (or not) of social tools, allowing me to develop critical
perspective on how to apply new experiences for teaching purposes.
8. Benefits and Barriers
QAA 2015/16 Digital Literacy
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/en/Publications/Do
cuments/HER-Themes-Guidance-15-
16.pdf
JISC Developing Digital
Literacies (2011-13)
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/digital
-literacies
HEA Digital Literacies in the
Disciplines (DLinD, 2013-14)
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/workstreams-
research/themes/online-learning/online-
learning-projects/digital-literacies-disciplines
HEFCE Changing the Learning
Landscape (CLL, 2012-2014)
http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/en/programmes-
events/your-university/cll/
UCISA Technology Enhanced
Learning (TEL) Surveys (2012, 2014)
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/tel
UCISA Digital Capabilities Survey
(2014) http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/digcap
HEA Flexible Pedagogies (2014)
https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/workstreams-
research/themes/flexible-learning/flexible-learning-
projects/flexible-pedagogies
Chatterton, P (2015) How do you
change the learning landscape?
Challenges in the strategic use of
technology to support the student
experience
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5891/1/JR0018_CLL_RE
PORT_6.0.pdf
9. • Sometimes I think the internet is the problem. Many
students express frustration at where to find things, to
the extent that I think some give up looking.
• I know my students are digitally savvy, I only have to
look at them in lectures, they’re always online, but since
we adopted the policy of making module guides only
available on Blackboard they don’t seem to be accessing
them. It’s like they want us to push the information
towards them and are not prepared to look for it.
• ‘…you’ve got to slow up the digital environment which is
a challenge. I think that’s the danger of virtual learning,
that’s the difficulty, students are not really reading. I
think virtual learning environments do somehow
discourage deeper reading and its affects degrees. I
think it’s that fundamental.
10. Developing Digital Capabilities (JISC, 2015)
• ‘Digital literacy is ideas
not keystrokes.’
(Gilster, 1997)
• Critical thinking;
the internet is unfiltered
• Digital diversity
– TEL and TET
– e-learning and e-teaching
• Avoid making assumptions
about digital confidence
12. Multimedia Birds of a Feather image from https://www.flickr.com/photos/james_nash/
Sue Watling
s.watling@hull.ac.uk
@suewatling
http://suewatling.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk
http://ammonitie.tumblr.com/lifeinhull