Project Details:
Digital Literacies as a Postgraduate Attribute
At the IOE, all these factors prevail. Additionally, a large proportion of our students enter after many years out of formal education, and many come from very different educational cultures. For...
|
91% complete
Funding period:July 2011 to July 2013
Source: |
|
Organisations: Institute of Education |
 |
Tags:
|
||
Related Projects 
Related Projects 
Technologies
Technologies
| Moodle |
Instittution migrating to Moodle over next year
|
| Blackboard |
institutional VLE
|
|
Using in various contexts - see comment
|
|
| ipod touch |
using for ethographic studies with students - see comment
|
| elluminate |
investigating use for conference for writing lab activity in year 2 of project (CETIS sending links to COWL project)
|
| skype |
investigating use for conference for writing lab activity in year 2 of project (CETIS sending links to COWL project)
|
| QR codes |
investigating use for year 2 project - probably use in library to provide quick links to guidance on databases etc
|
| Evernote |
CETIS suggested this might be useful app for ethnographic study using ipod touch
|
| Wordpress |
Project blog
|
|
using for project dissemination, initially through personal acounts using programme hashtag
|
Comments:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 12:00:44
CETIS sending information on single-sign on and OAuth.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 12:00:19
Early indications from focus groups are that students are very pragmatic users of technology - only want to take the time to use something/learn to use something new if it has direct impact for them. There is also a general complaint about multiple log-ins and different passwords, which is stopping students using certain labs and logging into wifi system for example.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 11:47:05
CETIS sending links to some potential apps, OER related information and mozilla badges.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 11:45:33
Part of focus groups is getting students to draw their own technology maps - team hoping to share and perhaps create generic maps for each of the 3 cohorts.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 11:44:46
Second year of the project will focus on 4 main areas of intervention: a writing centre project using video/audio conferencing, a library project probably looking at use of QR codes to help give students access to guidance on database use for example, one staff facing and one student facing project - all have to be fully scoped.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 11:43:03
Project will be exploring notions of digital identity with the 3 cohorts, some already have professional digital identities.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 11:42:10
Hope to have some webspace (both public and institutionally facing ) of artefacts from ethnographic study, where students can curate and share some of the artefacts they have created. No decision on platform has been made yet.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 11:40:49
Team conducting ethnographical study with 12 students over the first year of the project. The students will be given ipod touches, and will record their uses of technology through various media. Some apps will be provided but not decided on which yet, and students will be encouraged to experiment.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 11:39:09
Team have used the Student Union Facebook page to recruit students for their focus groups, and will also be exploring the use of facebook by students in terms of professional/academic use -v- social use.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 11:31:45
Team have been looking at iGrad data for past 2 years, particularly relating to technology - but doesn't really give a lot of information. Confirms the need to do more detailed studies. Team conducting focus groups with their three main student cohorts (PgCert, Masters and Doctoral students) around technology, digital literacy, identities etc.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2011-11-29 11:30:36
Project currently in baselining phase trying to gain better qualitative idea of enablers/barriers to sustainability both from institutional and student perspective.
Project Homepage