What benefits has your project delivered and who are the beneficiaries? Nine DIAL Projects: The Professional Online Identities Project Area / Project (POI) Develop professional online web skills & online identities, with the aim of enhancing student/graduate employability and industry readiness. Also see connected projects: - and DL Skills Participants , , , , , , , , DL Skills Project staff All project staff involved said how much more aware they were of the importance of these skills and how it will impact on future development. Who & numbers BA Students = 60+ Alumni = 10 CSM PDP students Yr. 1,2,3 & All students STAFF = 20 CSM course staff, Course Director, Central services & all UAL staff for training CSM, LCC, LCF, WCA, Sector, Departments, , , , , Activities Attended training & student planning of Attended training & planning and delivery of Cross college Planning Team Meetings Short term results/ outputs New areas of training Better experience New CoPs OER resources PPD, New course awareness & context for integrating professional web skills into curriculum. New training, CoPs, OERs New cross college , wider debate Medium term results / benefits CSM Stage 2 POI training guaranteed Aut’ 13 term professional practice unit, and Yr. 3 is Optional Curriculum stage 2 embedding of POI programme in Aut’ 13 term Model for POI future curriculum integration in other UAL courses Long term results/ sustainable outcomes Students are more confident, & aware of sharing professional practice online for possible improved employability A pilot for POI Curriculum embedding demonstrates this CSM course as an innovator in this area and possible wider integration. The POI will continue an extra year until Dec 2014 Become sector leader and encourage more collaboration, part of DIAL 2014. OER resources & DL case studies And College: - (9 training sessions) - - - -
- (reflection) - Staff IPR workshop - (Students) - (Reflection, comments) - (staff/researcher feedback 1 of 3) - - - Staff researcher feedback - (students) - External: - The things unlimited project Area / Project focuses on developing digital information literacy with Library Services DL Skills Participants The aim of this project was to develop a learning resource, intended primarily for Library Services staff, as a vehicle for sharing skills and information, and bringing together useful resources on a given topic. See . DL Skills Project staff This project also developed the skills of those project staff involved e.g. developing new models for digital information literacy, production of OERs, additional research. Who & numbers STAFF = 52 Library services staff & 3 project staff Department All Library services, central services, 6 x Colleges: LCC, CSM, LCC, CCW Activities Discussions and focus groups, confidence building with Library services staff. Departmental support, interest and encouragement. Short term results/ outputs PPD - Production of learning tools for library staff, providing a medium for library staff with specialist knowledge to share this with other staff. Started a process of engagement with OER production DIAL coincides with Library Services initiatives on staff development and strategic ambitions to extend the library services offer in digital information literacy, so students, researchers and other user groups will ultimately benefit. Medium term results Created a ‘tool’ with an aim of launching over the summer 13. Provided a medium for engagement with other University colleagues on
/ benefits Looking at a self-sustaining model & converting resources to OERs digital information literacy. Wider debate Long term results/ sustainable outcomes Integrate a new staff development process, tool and model long term. Make training more efficient and open, encourage sharing via OERs Project will change and inform new staff development approaches apply new models. More collaboration with DIAL 2014. And College: - - Library Services Conference 2012 - - Library Services staff conference - - Resources landing page External: - - DIAL slides - 2012 - - The Video Presentation Skills project Area / Project project aims to explore the skills and knowledge for delivering video presentation workshops and the student skills required to create talking head videos about professional practice. DL Skills Participants Improved confidence and ability to structure video presentations, and each student now has a video pitch, which they can use to promote their business or project. Awareness of the technical challenges involved in creating videos. DL Skills Project staff Creating a bespoke workshop models as part of a course, embedding employability and enterprise skills. OER production. Awareness of the technical challenges involved in creating these video skills workshops Who & numbers MA Students = 20+ MA London College of Fashion, ‘Fashion Entrepreneurship’ STAFF = 4 - course leader, project staff and course team London College of Fashion and SEE College, Department & Institution SEE and LCF Activities 3 x Pilot workshops, followed by improved & reviewed 1 day workshop Collaborated to develop Pilot workshops, & improved & reviewed 1 workshop Collaboration between academic staff, departments, LCF, SEE and .
Short term results/ outputs Improved confidence and ability to structure video presentations. OER resource videos Produced ‘pilot’ workshops plans, research & created video resources to share as OERs New collaboration, college resources, wider debate Medium term results / benefits Each student now has a video pitch, which they can use to promote their business or project. Tried and tested workshops, lots of lessons learned and shared, pilot for curriculum integration. Inform teacher training Professional quality videos being presented by UAL students. OER resources & DL case studies Long term results/ sustainable outcomes Improved confidence in online presentation skills, Improved student experience & possible impact on graduate employability Curriculum integration being explored, college/sector reuse via shared resources including a detailed description of workshops. More work DIAL 2014 Course, college, UAL become leaders in this field, share with sector best practice, more college collaboration DIAL 14 Participation And Dissemination - VPS Final workshop documentation () - - video reflections - - Open Education and Flexible learning Area / Project – This group aims to highlight the open practice work of individuals and groups who share personal and professional practice as ‘open educational resources’ OERs online through participatory blogs and online community networks. DL Skills Participants Awareness of open education resources and open practice, some practical skills on production and use of OERs DL Skills Project staff Understanding of college specific issues and how to approach and address OER and open practice adoption and communication with staff and students Who & numbers STAFF = 40 + All colleges College, Department & Institution CSM, LCF CCW, Own-IT, JISC, SCORE, UKOER, & Activities Focus groups, workshops and meetings. Explore, how creation and use of OERs can contribute to the digital literacy of staff and Project collaboration DIAL & ALTO, cross college collaboration, policy
- OEP & process.arts at UAL - promoting OER use in UK universities Online Reflective Practice group Area / Project – The aim of this group was to focus on increasing capacity for learning openly and in collaboration with others, see outputs and resources created for the project part of CLTAD Teaching Development Projects. DL Skills Participants Online reflective practice, Open educational practice, online rich media tools, Tool-specific knowledge, video skills, online community networking. Skills and knowledge for the building of personal reflective learning networks DL Skills Project staff Improved delivery of PG Cert through the development of online reflective unit Who & numbers Student teachers = 70 CLTAD PG Cert primarily UAL staff, plus others from RCA and other institutions STAFF = 2 x PG Cert teachers College, Department & Institution Activities Familiarity with tools that enable online reflection and the documentation of process. Self and peer assessment PDF here: Short term results/ outputs Understanding the benefits and challenges of online reflective practice Advanced and informed research in this area Informed the open practice unit development Medium term results / benefits Willingness to try new tools and processes - Willingness to find the answers oneself - Greater tolerance of complexity Better understanding of the role of compulsory, online reflective activities in developing particular aspects of participants’ digital literacy A modest number of participants incorporated online reflective practice into the curricula of the courses they teach during this academic year. Long term results/ sustainable outcomes A small but significant proportion of those who have completed both units are continuing to use their Understanding of staff motivations for online reflective practice. OER workshop resources & DL case A significant number of participants have expressed an intention to introduce online
sustainable outcomes UAL with students as equal community leaders DIAL 14 encouraging more staff to take part DIAL 14 and seek UAL support & interest Participation And Dissemination Drop-in - WCA DMC Digital Media Centre Drop-in - LCF JPS OA 504 Drop-in - LCC Digital space Drop-in - WCA Digital Media Centre (second session) Assessing Digital Literacy level of pre-degree students Area / Project – This project focuses on assessing the level of digital literacy of pre degree students applying to the BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design course at LCC. DL Skills Participants Assessment of personal skills DL Skills Project staff Awareness and understanding of DLs in students Who & numbers Pre degree students = 65 STAFF = 5 course team at LCC Activities Online Survey of DL skills and levels Evaluating survey results, course team Short term results/ outputs Engaged with course earlier than normal Survey amongst staff of DLs in course context Medium term results / benefits Students should have a better experience starting the course with staff preparations based on survey results Developing digital literacy skill workshops for GMD students that will meet the needs of a diverse range of learners for Autumn 2013 Long term results/ sustainable outcomes Improved student experience Course has more info and is better prepared for Autumn Term 2013 students Participation And Dissemination The Programme Director will report via updates using one of the UAL in house tools - myblog.arts Using video for messages, information and personal tutorials Area / Project - Course director exploring the possibility of filming himself giving messages/information to students on the course – kind of ‘v-mailing’. DL Skills Participants Receiving video pod casts, Receiving video emails, experimenting with new forms of communication
DL Skills Project staff Creating video pod casts, using iPad mini, using cloud services (Drop Box) Creating video emails, experimenting with new forms of communication Who & numbers BA Students = 120 current BA PDP students STAFF = 1 Course Director - Performance Design and Practice CSM Activities Experimenting with new forms of communication and documentation CSM course director exploring the possibility of filming himself giving messages/information to students on the course – kind of ‘v-mailing’. In addition and linked to this, I want to explore ways of filming scheduled Personal Tutorials Short term results/ outputs We hope to see evidence of better/ improved communication Evidence that students actually get the messages and so communication issues improve. Secondly, feedback that student’s have access to a better, more appropriate record of their Personal Tutorial, than a completed form. Medium term results / benefits We hope to see improved student experience Possible adoption of this process beyond the 3 month pilot phase Long term results/ sustainable outcomes We hope to see improved student experience A case study for other courses facing similar communication and documentation issues. Participation And Dissemination Video feedback from teachers and students (Autumn 2013) iPads into a technical workshops Area / Project – This project explores the possibility of introducing iPads into a technical workshop environment. DL Skills Participants Using tablets in workshop environments, App experimentation and integration, new digital learning processes and integration, new modes of communication DL Skills Project staff Using tablets in workshop environments, App experimentation and integration, new digital L&T processes and integration, new modes of collaboration Who & numbers BA Students – 350 - students using 3D Technical Workshops STAFF = 10 Technical staff from 3D Technical Workshops. College, Department & Institution – Chelsea College of Art and