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Building the Blackboard foundations for a digitally literate university, presentation for the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference, Dublin, April - May 2014, Sarah Horrigan, University of Derby

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Building the Blackboard FoundationsFor a digitally literate universitySARAH HORRIGANSenior Learning Technology AdvisorUniversity of Derby

ABOUT ME

SARAH HORRIGANSenior Learning Technology AdvisorUniversity of Derbys.horrigan@derby.ac.uk

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF DERBY

University of Derby

22,000 students (HE and FE)

2,000 members of staff

Supported by a central TEL team of 20, working with IT Services to support Blackboard

WHAT WE ARE GOING TO LEARN TODAY

3 main things…

WHAT WE ARE GOING TO LEARN TODAY

1. The impact of Blackboard goes beyond bits and bytes

2. To build digital practice you have to understand it first

3. Unpick what constitutes good practice and systematically look for it

OUR CHALLENGE

What do we mean by

IMPACT?

What does impactlook like?

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What questions

should we ask?

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Not these!

BACKGROUND

Threshold standard

Benchmarking

‘Improving the quality of eLearning’What

are

we

really

doing?

Are

wedigitallyliterate?

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“digital literacy defines those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society”

- JISC, 2011

DIGITALLITERACY Attributes/

identities

Practices

Skills

Functional access

DIGITAL LITERACY FRAMEWORK, Beetham and Sharpe (2010)

OUR SOLUTION

What do we mean by

IMPACT?

University of DerbyThreshold Standards

Blackboard ExemplaryCourse Program Rubric

3Es Framework (2011)Edinburgh Napier University

Analysis

Design

Testing

Standardisation

Application

THE

PROCESS

WHAT DID WE

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LOTS OF

TUMBLEWEEDMOMENTS

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LOTS OF

“STUFF”

NOT LOTS OF

INTERACTION

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THE PARADOX OF PRACTICE

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THE PARADOX OF

PRIORITY

THE PARADOX OF

CONFORMITY

… AND DIGITALLITERACY? Attributes/

identities

Practices

Skills

Functional access

DIGITAL LITERACY FRAMEWORK, Beetham and Sharpe (2010)

… WE FOUNDGAPS…

DIGITAL LITERACY FRAMEWORK, Beetham and Sharpe (2010)

?Practices

?Functional access

SO

WHAT ARE WE

DOINGABOUT ALL THIS?

Talkingto our academic

community

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Replacing

the Threshold

Standards

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Facilitating

via design of the

system

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Developing

digital practice skills

Repeating

to deepen

understanding

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DO THIS NEXT

Combine what people are doing with what Blackboard can do to get a sense of the state of digital literacy

DO THIS NEXT

… and then you can really start to move digital practice forward

THANK YOU!

SARAH HORRIGANSenior Learning Technology AdvisorUniversity of Derbys.horrigan@derby.ac.uk

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