2009 - 2010 Meetings
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21 Jul 2010 |
Moving a course online |
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16 Jun 2010 |
Personalizing learning |
| 19 May 2010 | Literacies and learning |
| 17 Mar 2010 | E-assessment |
| 17 Feb 2010 |
Global skills in the curriculum |
| 20 Jan 2010 | Using audio and video in teaching |
| 16 Dec 2009 |
New developments showcase |
| 18 Nov 2009 | Feedback for learning |
| 21 Oct 2009 |
Online discussion |
Literacies and learning
Speakers:
Dr Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, from the Dept. of Scandinavian Studies who will speak on 'Blogging Comparative Literature':
A central ambition of our MA module, Memory and Literature
in a
Globalised Culture, taught via videoconference between UCL and the universities of Aarhus and Lisbon, was to allow students to practice writing for social media (forum,blog, wiki).
This informal talk will present some of the advantages and challenges we have found in using digital texts in the transnational and virtual seminar room.
Dr Mary Lea, Open University, whose title is 'Digital Literacies in Higher Education: texts, technologies and practices':
Most of today’s undergraduates bring to their studies a wealth of
experience of using web-based technologies in their day-to-day lives. As a
consequence, concerns are often raised by tutors about students’ ability to engage in
more conventional study practices, such as reading for and completing essays.
This presentation will report upon an ESRC funded research project,
‘Digital Literacies in Higher Education’, which has examined this issue
through a literacies lens. The research was carried out in three
different higher education institutions. The presentation will report
upon the project findings, which illustrate the complex
interrelationship between literacies and technologies with the potential
to disrupt conventional academic literacy practices. They also offer
strong evidence for students’ ongoing reliance on the authority of the
institution when it comes to accessing and utilizing web-based resources
for their assignments.
Drawing on data from the research, the presentation will suggest that,
in order to understand the changes that are taking place for learners in
today’s higher education, more attention needs to be paid to textual
practice around learning and less to the technologies and their
applications. It will also explore how the changing status of knowledge
in universities comes primarily not from students’ own web-based
activity but from the universities themselves, as a diverse range of
texts are brought into the academy and valorized in a range of
assessment
practices.
