Tuesday 22 November 2011

SEDA's sucessful bid to the JISC Digital Literacies Project


SEDA has been successful in its proposal to support JISC Developing Digital Literacies Project with 11 other sector bodies and professional associations (ALDinHE, ALT, AUA, SCASP, LSIS, ODHE, SDF, HEDG, SCONUL, UCISA and Vitae). The 10k project will involve SEDA in disseminating and testing some of the utcomes from institutional Digital Literacies Projects relating to staff and educational development. One particular project, that at the Institute of Education actually has SEDA as a partner from the beginning and will look at developing digital literacy as a graduate attribute

SEDA is currently advertising for a development officer to support this work by embedding it into SEDA's one day events, conferences, publications professional development framework and courses. Anyone interested should contact office@seda.ac.uk

The sucess of SEDA's bid, builds upon a previous project last year with JISC - the first to involve a professional body in this way to aid dissemination and the embedding of new approaches.

The final report is available at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/staffroles/embedit.aspx

Monday 21 November 2011

Reflections on SEDA Conference 17th and 18th November

Had a great 2 days at SEDA conference. A key theme throughout was how we might ensure that technology leads to the real enhancement of pedagogic practice in HE. A fantastic range of people meant that technologists, academics and educational developers came together to debate how we might move this agenda forward and share ideas and experiences of doing so. At the same time people came across tools for educational development that they had perhaps not considered before. A well received workshop by Sue Beckingham and David Walker for example looked at how one might build professional  networks using social media . An extremely interesting symposium shared some of the open educational resources colleagues have been developing for Pg certs in Tearning and Teaching in HE.

The conference finished with a virtual and interactive keynote from Professor Susanne Quinsee which pulled together many of the strands which had developed over the 2 days. I particularly liked the way we were encouraged to consider the reasons for the gaps between available technology and practice in HE.

As you might expect Twitter was used extensively throughout the conference and Sue Beckinham has kindly created a wonderful story line sharing tweets which referred to particular parts of the conference

The hashtag for the conference was #sedaconf16. You can follow seda on twitter @seda_uk_
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Thursday 17 November 2011

SEDA Conference Using Technologyto Enhance Learning

Over the next two days Iwill report on the SEDA Conference at Aston University Business School UK.The programme looks really exciting and the conference venue is full. With this theme expect lots of twitter activity.Follow on twitter @seda_uk_   #sedaconf16