Jesuit Digital Network Supporting Sharing and Collaboration Melbourne, Australia  July 10, 2015

The Jesuit Digital Network is… …is an online platform and community created to bring high quality academic content in the Jesuit tradition to educators and learners across institutions and regions.

With the Jesuit Digital Network you can: 1)Find resources to help expand the scope of your institution's offerings locally and globally 2)Share resources to help deliver your mission globally 3)Manage content, discussions, and groups associated with global collaborative projects

How do you find content in the Jesuit Digital Network?

Search is easy and powerful Lectures, case studies, lesson plans, student guides, articles, original source material, videos, data, images, etc Completely dynamic keyword tagging Often logically grouped into cohesive sets of content

Dynamic Tagging

Multi-part teaching module

Use a “group” to quickly find content of interest

Or use “hubs” to discover groups and collections of content on specific topics

How do you contribute content to the Jesuit Digital Network?

Directly import content or just link to external resources

Content that is added Can be kept private with co-authors until ready to publish Must have rights and permissions assigned to control its use and reuse Can be tracked and usage measured

Manage content Folders for organizing one’s own collections Individual profiles, roles, and permissions around using resources

Manage group membership

Manage group discussions

Example: Healing Earth 1.Find content of interest: 2.View content’s primary site: 3.Add link and other items to your or your groups’ private folders 4.Suggest other relevant content to official curators who approve it before it is published in the Healing Earth Hub 5.Contributing authors to Healing Earth have private group to share drafts and discuss

Example: Melbourne Find “Melbourne” content of interest: 2.A dedicated Hub for collections and groupsA dedicated Hub

Example: Ethics in Business 1.Find “ethics” content of interest: 2.A Group dedicated to Designing Business Ethics CourseDesigning Business Ethics Course 3.Teaching Notes and Student Guides: Encyclical Laudato SiEncyclical Laudato Si

Additional Benefits of the Network Advancing and sharing Ignatian scholarship and research worldwide Professional development of faculty through improving and adapting curriculum Translation of materials into multiple languages Integration of content with learning management systems and mobile applications Sharing data about resource use and learning analytics

Who is helping to develop the platform? – ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, a California-based education non-profit established in 2002 – ISKME is focused on the intersection of digital tools, content, teaching, and learning –

ISKME created OER Commons Digital Library and Network Expertly curated library of 50K+ digital resources opened in 2007 Structured approach to discovering resources Evaluation and creation tools to empower educators to interact directly with resources Custom tools for collaborating and organizing resource collections

Who else is creating the Jesuit Digital Network?

You can!

How to join the initiative Volunteer to contribute to new feature development Reach us to add your resources and collections Put us in touch with your IT person Create an account and explore

Contact for more info: Fr. Charles Currie, S.J. Damian Saccocio, Consultant, Jesuit Digital Network Amee Godwin, Director, Innovation, ISKME Kate Katz, Project Manager, ISKME