Student outlooks for partnership in a digital learning landscape

• The value of students as partners

• Student interests and expectationsof learning technologies

• Building learning communities

Students’ unique abilities as partners

1. Shifting culture away from consumerism toward building learning communities

2. Exciting and influencing staff3. Developing innovative approaches and

challenging risk aversion4. Disseminating impact beyond the walls of the

institution

What do our students anticipate?

What should TEL provide?Multimedia experienceCreating contentPersonalisationCollaboration Flexibility and efficiencyA hub of toolsBuilding a digital identityPreferences for the

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People drive communities, not tools

…but think about how tools drive interactions

• Learning is achieved through collaboration• All members of a community should be

encouraged to be creators• Research should not be exclusive • Knowledge should be visualised to enhance

impact outside of the community’s walls

Collaborative creation

Use digital tools to enable collaborative discovery• Think beyond document creation• Bringing new groups together in dialogue• Convenience is key: centralised into one hub

Google Apps:• Docs, Sheets, Slides: Office in the cloud• Trello, Virtual Whiteboard: mindmapping• Sites: customisable community hubs• Blogger

Expanding participation in research

Empower all members of institutional community to lead in research • Take advantage of BYOD to avoid need for

specialised tools• Provide templates and toolkits to launch new

research• Student networks are well-placed to drive

interdisciplinary connections

Stanford University: Cross-cultural rhetoric project

• Students leading development of communication/collaboration capabilities and resources for living in a digital, global society

• Innovative approaches through trial and error• Students generated own learning through

independent projects, facilitated by technology• Global reach and embedding change in the

disciplines

Image source: Kobo Toolbox, http://www.kobotoolbox.org/; www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Wi5W6A19vc

KoBo Toolbox

Tools for handheld, collaborative digital data collection and analysis in the field

Image source: Kobo Toolbox, http://www.kobotoolbox.org/; www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Wi5W6A19vc

Visualisation of learning

Thinking about impact • Cope with information overload • Go beyond words to engage people in a more

accessible way with their learning• Increase visibility and interest beyond the

lecture hall• Employability skills for all disciplines-

Students can visualise data, concepts, trends, interactions…

Making it interesting

Image sources: Info.gram Blog, 12/12/2012, tmblr.co/ZSH2-xZqdDru; FrogLoop, 12/08/2012,, frogloop.com/care2blog/2012/8/3/infographic-how-do-social-network-users-lean-politically.html

Coventry University Open Media Classes

• Exploring digital networks for increasing visibility and exploring new practice

• Open ethos to encourage widespread involvement and exploring for the inexperienced

• Building on existing staff and student networks across disciplines

• Increasing impact beyond the institution’s walls

Image source: Kobo Toolbox, http://www.kobotoolbox.org/; www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Wi5W6A19vc

Enhancing collaboration digitally

Partnerships with students can add something unique to your institutional community. TEL can enhance the way you:• Develop partners in research• All members of community as creators• Communicate and collaborate• Spread impact and interest through creative

multimodal presentation