Chris FollowsLibrary Services Conference 2012

University of the arts London

‘Green Shoots’ 21 September 2012

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UAL new VLE portfolio

http://process.arts.ac.uk/

Support IPR policy and development for UAL open educational practice

http://process.arts.ac.uk/• Open resource for sharing practice/knowledge and

creating OERs. Open to everyone, staff & students, global and local.

• Not UAL course aligned, alternative/add on to the VLE environment that encourages and supports open educational practice and rich media experimentation in learning and teaching.

• Content new bespoke courses and informal learning.

• Non-commercial but sector driven/owned.

http://process.arts.ac.uk/• A new space that straddles the institution/educational

(formal learning) environment and the social/commercial (informal learning) environment.

• Experimental’ space for open educational practitioners.

• Supports grass roots inovation and small project development by providing instant community space

• Defining a new language for open edu-social practice without conforming or being influenced by pre-existing academic structures and processes.

The specialist group sections have continued to develop and we now have 15 active groups. Once a community can commit and want to take 'ownership' of a specialist section we have develop

this requirement appropriately.

Transition into open practice

Voluntary soft skills for creating OER & OEP communities

• Digital Citizenship• Guidance• Global and local networks/communities• Respectful & open aware (content use & IPR)• Open practice mentor• Monitoring and supervision• Acknowledgment (is someone out there) • Stewardship

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Cara Lee Roth EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPER / Student Enterprise & Employability (SEE)

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Motivation to participate

We need to help each other. How?

Primary Challenge

The DIAL projectDigital Integration into Arts Learning

• Partially funded by JISC.

• Two year project, year one completed.

• DIAL project aims to improve graduate employability and develop confidence and capability in the adoption and integration of digitally enhanced learning for staff and students.

“You make me feel physically sick when I hear you talk……about using

‘digital”

Course Director UAL academic leaders forum 2012

Digital Baseline, where are UAL?

DIAL small projects

• Self identified• Time to develop• Grassroots• Problem based• Interest based • Open content communities (Culture of helping

each other)

Early thoughts and common features from DIAL evaluation of pilot projects:

The DIAL projects provide opportunity for personal reflections on personal roles and emerge from long-standing challenges people want to tackle, and perhaps up to now have not had the time or resources to attend to them:

• Teachers’ fear of learning in public. (Online reflective practice)• Dealing with the discomfort of making curricular resources

public. (Open educational resources, OER)• Anxieties relating to presenting oneself online. (Professional

open/online identities)

Thank you Chris Follows

Email: c.follows@arts.ac.uk

University of the Arts London272 High HolbornLondonWC1V 7EY

Mobile: 07703 887845