1. DIT Digital: Experiments with AR and student-created OERs
KITTY HORNE – LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
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2. 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
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3. 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
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4. How To Toolkit
‘How To’ Toolkit
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5. 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
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6. I get what I’m doing, but I don’t get why…
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7. 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
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8. Going forward… Create ‘Post-Punk Brighton Walking Tour’
Send the students’ OERs to external institutions
Evaluation and next steps
Virtual Reality
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9. Student resources Gentrification at the grass roots
Communication and protest
Elitism in subcultures
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10. Contact k.r.horne@sussex.ac.uk / tel@sussex.ac.uk
Digital Practice Awards
Blog: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/tel
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