POSTPONED - Open Educational Resources as a vehicle for digital literacy in the humanities
Date: 29 June, 2012
Location: Room 2151, Blg 65, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton
Event type: Workshop
This event is part of the Higher Education Academy Open Education Resources seminar series. The focus of the workshop will be to show how engaging students with open content can enhance their digital literacy as well as that of staff, and how OERs can be a bridge between humanities teaching and research. It will be an interactive session which will involve presentations, discussion and hands-on activities.
- To showcase and share the experiences of humanities academics who use and re-use OERs in the work (research and teaching), including how they have used OERs with students
- To stimulate discussion of good practice in OER use in HE, and in use of OERs with students
- To offer practical tips from experience on how to use and re-use OERs in research and teaching
- To give hands-on practice with two teaching and learning repositories and a new OER remixing tool
Fees
This event is free to attend. It is part of the HEA OER seminar series.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Introduction to HEA An introduction to the work of the Higher Education Academy |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Introduction and overview of OER project Alison Dickens and Kate Borthwick (LLAS) Introduction to the day and overview of LLAS-led OER projects and the different communities of humanities specialist who engaged with OER through the projects. |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Digital literacy - what does it mean? Fiona Harvey and Lisa Harris, Learning Designer, University of Southampton Presentation and short discussion exploring the defnition of 'digital literacy' and how the term may be interpreted in practice. |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | OER : the landscape of use and reuse Liz Masterman and Joanna Wild, University of Oxford Presentation and discussion on recent findings from the OER Impact project, led by the University of Oxford. This session will focus on research into how staff and students in universities are currently embedding OERs into their teaching and learning, and indicate the conclusions and recommendations suggested by the project team. |
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Break |
| 11.45 – 12.45 | Creating and using OERs in the humanities Emmanuel Godin, University of Portsmouth Presentation and discussion on recent findings from the OER Impact project, led by the University of Oxford. This session will focus on research into how staff and students in universities are currently embedding OERs into their teaching and learning, and indicate the conclusions and recommendations suggested by the project team. |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45 - 14.15 | Hands-on practice with a teaching and learning repository for the humanities Kate Borthwick (LLAS) This session will involve a short introduction to the teaching and learning repositories, the HumBox and the LanguageBox. It will give participants the opportunity to create an account on the site and explore how to shape their digital presence using the features of the site, including using the new remixing tool to re-use the work of others. |
| 14.15 - 15.30 | Workshop / discussion : how would you use OERs from a repository like HumBox to support the digital literacy of your students? Alison Dickens, Kate Borthwick (LLAS), students involved in the OpenLIVES (JISC) project This session will use the HumBox as a basis for a workshop session focussed around using OERs to support digital literacy for students. It will draw out discussion around three themes: critical thinking using digital resources; practical issues of effective student re-use of OERs, and students as producers of OERs. Students currently working on LLAS OER projects will be involved with this final session to share their experiences of OER use and creation and contribute to discussion. |
| 15.30 - 15.45 | Session 5 : Feedback reflection Discussion : how might you use these tools in your own practice? |
