DIT Digital: Experiments with AR and student-created OERs KITTY HORNE – LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne
Digital Practice Awards Grants to support the development of innovative practices in the use of technology within teaching and learning Learning Technologists working in collaboration with academics, building partnerships with academic staff Showcasing practice throughout the institution bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne
Motivations & Aims Challenge students’ perception of traditional teaching To encourage students to think of history happening in a specific place rather than just a specific time Response to Vivienne Westwood’s Intellectuals Unite Manifesto Create open resources using open tools Develop students’ digital skills and provide them with transferable employability skills Break down barriers between: University/City, past/present, intellectual thought/practice, physical/virtual bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne
How To Toolkit ‘How To’ Toolkit bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne
Workshops Two day-long workshops based in Brighton Located in the city to allow student to carry out their own research Students worked in small groups to plan, research and create their OERs Students then presented back to the group at the end of the two days bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne
I get what I’m doing, but I don’t get why… bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne
Challenges Students’ digital skills, their confidence in their own abilities Attendance Non-assessed Student perceptions of teaching, e.g. how should a seminar be structured? Location bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne
Going forward… Create ‘Post-Punk Brighton Walking Tour’ Send the students’ OERs to external institutions Evaluation and next steps Virtual Reality bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne
Student resources Gentrification at the grass roots Communication and protest Elitism in subcultures bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne
Contact k.r.horne@sussex.ac.uk / tel@sussex.ac.uk Digital Practice Awards Blog: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/tel Twitter: @kittyrhorne / @SussexTEL bit.ly/2017apt @kittyrhorne