Enabling & Empowering Staff & Students to Flourish in the Digital Age

The Challenge:◦ Improving the confidence as well as the skills/competences of staff

(academic and non-academic) and students◦ Technology can be intimidating for many◦ Formal training can be inflexible and costly (time and money!)

Digital Skills/Literacies Frameworks?◦ Many already exist (reviewed over 60!)◦ Tend to be formal, detailed, prescriptive

Our approach?◦ Try to be more participatory, collaborative◦ Capture imagination, sense of fun as well as achievement◦ Use technologies to support skills development

CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Nikos Koutoulas

Digital Skills Framework

Developing a national Digital Skills Framework for Irish HE

Producing and Developing Training Resources

Piloting Open Badges in HE

Facilitating Events, campaigns, workshops, partnerships

Iain Mac Labhrainn, Blaneth McSharryGobnait O’Riordan, Aoife Geraghty, Liz DoreÁine Galvin, Leone Gately, Jonathan FlynnAnne O’Keeffe, Deirdre Ryan

Navigating the Digital Skills Framework

CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Hans Dinkelberg

CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Rachel Samanyi

Badges

Open Badges

Using Digital Badges to mark achievement in the Skills Framework

BUT also using badges for lots of other activities:

• Helps spread and embed the concept of badging• Also increases ‘routine’ use of a key set of technologies• Links digital confidence/competence with personal, professional

development• Links with broader agenda of CPD for academics• Links with ‘Graduate Attributes’ of students

Badge ExamplesOutreach, Volunteering & Communications

Non-formal & Informal CPD

Skills Development embedded in courses

Study Skills

Employability & Leadership

Graduate Attributes

Criteria, issuingOpen Badge Factory

+ Institutional VLEs

Policy & Guidelines

Capturing badges, storing CVs, linking to publications and allowing re-export to other platforms (eg LinkedIn), embedding in websites, etc.

Compliance with OBI

Open Badge Passport

Personal Profiles

Student Partnership

CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr, Mariusz Kluzniak

Recruitment, selection, training and awards◦ Working with students◦ Working with staff/services◦ Creating Content

Workshops◦ Digital Identity & Wellbeing◦ Social Media◦ Content Creation:

◦ Infographics, Blogging, Podcasts

DIGITAL CHAMPIONSDevelop and showcase your digital skills

http://www.digichampsnuig.com/

Meanwhile, in Limerick….

CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Greg Neate

Content, Technologies & Processes

Content developmentWorkflow

◦ Curator for each line◦ Creative workshops◦ ‘Open Curriculum’◦ Lesson ‘descriptor’

◦ LOs, Learner Activities, Media/Content, Assessment, Badge Criteria

◦ Style Guide/Template◦ Packaged (SCORM/Tin Can)◦ Review & Revise◦ Batch release

Technologies WP based website (HEAnet hosted)

◦ Self-assessment tool◦ Page per ‘station’◦ Online lessons, resource packs, introductory video, posters, links and Badge Criteria◦ Metro ‘Travelcards’

◦ Collections of lessons/mini-course/curriculum◦ Number of different perspectives:

◦ Intended audience◦ Skillset◦ Links with disciplines/subjects

◦ Resource packs for T&L and LT units/colleagues◦ Devolved badge issuing rights (criteria/rubric)

◦ Downloadable in SCORM/Tin Can API/zip packages◦ Can deploy in any VLE/LMS

◦ LearnDash/Grassblade (LRS) for individual study

Open Badge Factory for issuing/tracking◦ Integrates with WP, Bb, Moodle, etc◦ Allows sub-issuers at institution level◦ Conforms to open standards and seamless link with Open Badge Passport (Salava – open source)

Content Authoring◦ ‘Open Curriculum’ approach◦ Prioritisation/development sequence via survey/consultation◦ Articulate Storyline for core materials◦ Evaluation of Adapt (advantages for mobile platforms, etc) & Adobe Articulate◦ Style Guide and learner activity models◦ Repurposing/remixing

For further information:

http://www.allaboardhe.org

Email: iain.maclaren@nuigalway.ie