intro to the academictech team 20130205 v6
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Description of what the University of Warwick Academic Technologies Team does, slides produced for IT Services colleagues.TRANSCRIPT
introducing …the academic technologies team
supporting the use of technology for teaching, learning and research at the
University of Warwick
Presentation to IT Services Departmental Meeting Fri 8th Feb 2013https://files.warwick.ac.uk/academictech/files/intro+to+the+academictech+team+20130205+v5.ppt
the academic technologies team
digital humanities
coursework management moodle
email the team at: [email protected]
e-learningprojects
building on existing success
some of you already know Chris, Steve and Robnew recruits Dec 2012 - March 2013: Russell, Jim, Amber, Richard, David, Steve Restablishing new digital humanities functionmoodle is rolling outcomms is in planning to promote our service … webpages, insite, fac/dep newsletters etc
scope
TEACHING
CLASSROOMTECH
ASSESSMENT
ONLINE CONTENT
STUDENT AS PRODUCER
VLEs
COURSEWORK MANAGEMEN
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eLearning / technology enhanced learning
fairly familiar territoryBUT
huge differences in use, uptake and support needs
scope
RESEARCH
E-JOURNALS
RESEARCH DATA MGT
RESEARCH WEBSITES
STUDENT AS RESEARCHER
OPEN ACCESS
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
technology in research
not technology about research or research about technology, but the use of technology in research. Includes e-science, e-research, digital research, digital humanities … fuzzy boundaries
and pretty new for universities to address this in a coherent way
scope
“academic technologies”the use of technology to support learning, teaching and research
RESEARCH
E-JOURNALS
RESEARCH DATA MGT
RESEARCH WEBSITES
STUDENT AS RESEARCHER
OPEN ACCESS
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
TEACHING
CLASSROOMTECH
ASSESSMENT
ONLINE CONTENT
STUDENT AS PRODUCER
VLEs
COURSEWORK MANAGEMEN
T
scope
context of academic technologies:
outreachengagement
“impact”
RESEARCH
E-JOURNALS
RESEARCH DATA MGT
RESEARCH WEBSITES
STUDENT AS RESEARCHER
OPEN ACCESS
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
TEACHING
CLASSROOMTECH
ASSESSMENT
ONLINE CONTENT
STUDENT AS PRODUCER
VLEs
COURSEWORK MANAGEMEN
T
scope
the scope changes as the context changesinnovation support
responsive provision
RESEARCH
E-JOURNALS
RESEARCH DATA MGT
RESEARCH WEBSITES
STUDENT AS RESEARCHER
OPEN ACCESS
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
TEACHING
CLASSROOMTECH
ASSESSMENT
ONLINE CONTENT
STUDENT AS PRODUCER
VLEs
COURSEWORK MANAGEMEN
T
ONLINE COURSES????????
DIGITISATION???????????
the sorts of things we do
• work with services to promote and develop ITS provision for teaching and research
• advise academics on technology selection, working closely with colleagues across university support services
• run teaching-specific services: e.g Moodle• collaborate with services to integrate new capabilities: e.g
Coursework Management• signpost good practices, support and training at Warwick• collaborate with projects doing new things: e.g proposed PRS
project• champion user requirements: e.g journal management
evaluating technologies for academic uses
people networks: we collaborate
what is … digital humanities?
existing tools put to new usesdigitisation, annotation, presentation …text as data, data as images, maps, timelines …social media, participatory, crowdsourcing …controversial, fuzzy, buzzy
our priorities: web content, matchmaking creative technologists, upskilling academics, data management, collaboration tools, applications requirements etc
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1) http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/?id=4fb24d5d 2) from Mark Knights Making History Course, Warwick 3) http://commonsinabox.org/ 4) https://www.facebook.com/TranscribeBentham
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on the horizon … RDM
drivers:[+] opportunity: “reproduceability”, data citation, data publication[-] compliance: the university’s own data policy, funder requirements
RESEARCH DATA MGT
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/
implications for ITS:early days, explorations start soonlibrary-hosted catalogue of datasets, frameworks for storage and archive, maybe moving towards embedded workflow solutions across register/store/manage/cite1) http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/ 2) http://cardio.dcc.ac.uk/ 3) http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ 4) http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/datum/health/ 5) http://figshare.com/
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what all this means for ITS colleagues
we want to ensure that academics pick the best tools for the job, using ITS provision wherever that’s the best fit, so:•we will refer people on to services with well-informed requirements•we will welcome referrals from colleagues where we can help refine requirements for research and teaching purposes•we will request enhancements to existing services, based on our evidence and expertise•we will work with services to pilot and evaluate new provision•we will work with colleagues to improve the evidence base about current practice and emerging needs
the academic technologies team
digital humanities
e-learningprojects
coursework management moodle
email the team at: [email protected]