Building the Blackboard foundations for a digitally literate university, presentation for the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference, Dublin, April - May 2014, Sarah Horrigan, University of Derby
3. ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY
OF DERBY
University of Derby
22,000 students (HE and FE)
2,000 members of staff
Supported by a central TEL team of 20,
working with IT Services to support Blackboard
4. WHAT WE ARE GOING
TO LEARN TODAY
3 main things…
5. WHAT WE ARE GOING
TO LEARN TODAY
1. The impact of Blackboard goes
beyond bits and bytes
2. To build digital practice you have to
understand it first
3. Unpick what constitutes good
practice and systematically look for it
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Should the impact be that it taps into some element of practice that will effectively make a difference? Should we be producing students and staff who are digitally literate?
Photo Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/41604911@N08/4751558220/">Chris JL</a> via <a href="http://compfight.com">Compfight</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">cc</a>Defining a particular set of capabilities as a 'literacy' means that: they are a pre-requisite or foundation for other capabilities; they are critical to an individual's life chances; they are essential to the making and sharing of culturally significant meanings; as a result, there is or should be a society-wide entitlement to these capabilities at some level.JISC, 2011, Developing digital literacies: Briefing Paper in support of JISC Grant Funding 4/11, available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/funding/2011/04/Briefingpaper.pdf, date accessed 19th December 2013
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Are all components of the Threshold Standard equal? If they are, then meeting the whole of the standard is important… if they aren’t, then how to people know how to prioritise the components?
Where the Threshold Standard was prescriptive we found most compliance… but least exemplary practice.Where the Threshold Standard was more vague, we found much less compliance… but most exemplary practice, for example where the
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