1. Emerging Practice in a Digital Age
6th July 2011
Institutional approaches to changing practice
Sarah Knight and Clare Killen

2. Emerging Practice in a Digital Age
A companion guide to Effective Practice in a Digital Age (JISC 2009) and Innovative Practice with e-Learning publication (JISC 2005).
Emerging Practice in a Digital Age explores ways institutions can respond to the opportunities and challenges presented by the fast-changing world of technology.
Encourage adoption of more effective and appropriate use of new and emerging technologies by the mainstream (many current users could be considered specialists and early adopters).
Provide HEIs/FEIs with a starter guide on how to effectively implement new and emerging technologies and incorporate it into current practice in a pedagogically sound way.
Update the FE and HE community on recent findings from JISC e-Learning Programme projects which have been working in this area.
To provide links to further information and related initiatives in the sector.

3. Changing landscapes
Drivers for change
Increased personalisation and choice.
Developing new markets.
Economic pressures.
Changing behaviours and emerging benefits.

4. Changing landscapes
Challenges
Digital literacies.
Specialist support.
Leadership and vision.
Re-engineering structures, strategies and policies.

5. Key themes:
Working in partnership with students – how students are being engaged as agents of change and co-collaborators in their own learning.
Developing students’ employability potential – how institutions are using technology to provide relevant and authentic learning experiences to enhance student employability and develop professional practice.
Preparing for the future – how colleges and universities are looking ahead and developing the skills, knowledge and cultural environment that will help to build the future.

6. Working in partnership with students
Students as active partners.
Harnessing existing skills.
Creating collaborative cultures.
Supporting student transition through reflective video sharing.
Engaging students as agents of change.
Students as partners in blending learning.

7. Importance of curriculum design
“It is really important to see a university or college as a design organisation where they are designing new forms of teaching and learning rather than just responding to changes in technology or responding to changes in policy.” Professor Mike Sharples, Professor of Learning Sciences and Director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham

8. The learner and the quality of the learning experience.
Moving forward
The learner and the quality of the learning experience.
Developing new pedagogies to transform learning and teaching.
Technological change.

9. Learner Experience Embedding innovation Choice Drivers for change
Learners
Choice
Drivers for change
Staff
Engaging
Pedagogies
Learner Experience
Collaborative
Institution
Drivers for change
Increased personalisation and choice
Developing student’ employability potential
Developing new markets
Economic pressures
Changing behaviours
Developmental
Supported
Technology

10. Embedding innovation
“In a complex and fast-changing technological world, we must always remember that there are enduring principles of good teaching and ways of engaging students which transcend different media and technologies.” Dr Peter Chatterton, Director of Daedalus e-World Ltd and Visiting Professor, University of Hertfordshire.

11. Supplementary resources
The guide will include:
10 case studies of institutional practice.
Four institutional video clips.
Compilation video of expert voices.
Podcasts.
Visit to register an interest in receiving a copy of the guide.

12. Emerging Practice in a Digital Age
6th July 2011
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