Digital capabilities in curriculum design #1771 #ALTC
1. Digital capabilities in curriculum design
Tünde Varga-Atkins @tundevaPhoto credit: Pietro Jeng
2. Digital capabilities in curriculum design
Tünde Varga-Atkins @tundevaPhoto credit: Pietro Jeng
capabilities
which fit someone for
living, learning and working
in a digital society (JISC)
6. Today’s focus (abridged aims)
Who is a digitally capable
Engineer(ing student)?
Management (student)?
7. Existing work: mapping
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11. Poem as data analysis method (Bazeley 2013)
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ISBN 9781849203036
12. Engineers
We open boxes. Pull things apart.
Bikes, trimmers, spark plugs, cars.
We simulate and model with graphs
Solve problems with applied maths.
We collaborate from day one,
On all things complex and human.
we draw on global resources,
join forces,
Just like in the real world.
Although, MATLAB, Simulink and CAD are core,
You don't need to be the master-of-all.
After baptism by a 5-day Wildfire,
Fight your way through the digital mire,
Armed only with wit and the need to enquire.
Just like in the real world.
Recited
by
Elliot
Atkins
13. Engineers
We open boxes. Pull things apart.
Bikes, trimmers, spark plugs, cars.
We simulate and model with graphs
Solve problems with applied maths.
We collaborate from day one,
On all things complex and human.
we draw on global resources,
join forces,
Just like in the real world.
Although, MATLAB, Simulink and CAD are core,
You don't need to be the master-of-all.
After baptism by a 5-day Wildfire,
Fight your way through the digital mire,
Armed only with wit and the need to enquire.
Just like in the real world.
Recited
by
Elliot
Atkins
14. Learning outcomes
• Main ‘explicit’ uses of technology
in the curriculum (6 elements)
through ‘immersion’ in tasks:
• Creation, innovation, problem
solving, scholarship
• Info / data / media literacies
16. Engineers
We open boxes. Pull things apart.
Bikes, trimmers, spark plugs, cars.
We simulate and model with graphs
Solve problems with applied maths.
We collaborate from day one,
On all things complex and human.
we draw on global resources,
join forces,
Just like in the real world.
Although, MATLAB, Simulink and CAD are core,
You don't need to be the master-of-all.
After baptism by a 5-day Wildfire,
Fight your way through the digital mire,
Armed only with wit and the need to enquire.
Just like in the real world.
Recited
by
Elliot
Atkins
18. Changing roles and skills
“because [engineers] are developing
the model as part of the analysis and
they’re one and the same, so engineers
are doing more of the role that
technicians historically would have
done, [and also] so technicians are
becoming more skilled…”
19. Engineers
We open boxes. Pull things apart.
Bikes, trimmers, spark plugs, cars.
We simulate and model with graphs
Solve problems with applied maths.
We collaborate from day one,
On all things complex and human.
we draw on global resources,
join forces,
Just like in the real world.
Although, MATLAB, Simulink and CAD are core,
You don't need to be the master-of-all.
After baptism by a 5-day Wildfire,
Fight your way through the digital mire,
Armed only with wit and the need to enquire.
Just like in the real world.
Recited
by
Elliot
Atkins
20. Learning outcomes
• Typically not explicit in areas of:
• Communication and collaboration
• Digital identity
• (ICT skills is taken-for-granted)
21. Engineers
We open boxes. Pull things apart.
Bikes, trimmers, spark plugs, cars.
We simulate and model with graphs
Solve problems with applied maths.
We collaborate from day one,
On all things complex and human.
we draw on global resources,
join forces,
Just like in the real world.
Although, MATLAB, Simulink and CAD are core,
You don't need to be the master-of-all.
After baptism by a 5-day Wildfire,
Fight your way through the digital mire,
Armed only with wit and the need to enquire.
Just like in the real world.
Recited
by
Elliot
Atkins
22. Approach
• Minimal ‘teaching’
• Immersion and support
• Developmental = ITU
Aim: ‘Pick up quickly’,
‘thrown’, ‘fall’ then ‘stand’, ‘swim’
23. F1
Motorsport.
Formula One.
Ferrari! Dallara!
Sponsors need you
in a high-vis LinkedIn jacket.
And to see how you can climb
out from the mud of the unknown.
If you get the big picture, the
connections between computer
modelling and real-world
experiments. You made it!
Software cannot be taught.
Get the principles. Learn it.
Use it. It will change soon,
But you know this. Just
hop-on another one. As easily,
as from Dutch to German.
25. VLE use as proxy enterprise system
• ‘Becoming’ a professional,
adhering to due process.
26. implications
disciplinary mapping is key!
programme-level approach is needed
curriculum design – whose role?
joint approaches: curr/co/extra
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27. Acknowledgements:
University of Liverpool
Lancaster University – doctoral
candidate in eResearch and TEL
Prof Don Passey (supervisor), Helen Beetham and
Rhona Sharpe (expert interviews) and my
participants!
Personal journey – reporting on my PhD study that is still ongoing
Personal journey – reporting on my PhD study that is still ongoing, so preliminary highlights
Imagine myself – learning technologist, ed-developer in workshops, sessions in which we discuss the importance of digital capabilities – How we can make curriculum ready for 21st century
Workshop of different disciplines- how can I make it relevant to staff from different disciplines,
We are using the JISC 6-elements model (hands up if you are familiar with it)
Staff do an audit of what they already do, what they need to find out and what they need to develop in students.
This is beyond the normal TEL (flipped classroom, active learning etc.) – not about using TEL in teaching approaches?
Having the conversations about what should go into the curriculum
So I need to know how knowledge is created in the different disciplines, how digital tools are embedded in these creation processes.
Audience Q: what are your original disciplines?
Quick show of hands
Humanities, social sciences or
Sciences?
Both?
(Bound to have left out – each one of you is a special case as usual with learning technologists!)
(Not unusual to develop expertise in the subject content in which you are closely working with.)
What [disciplines] we can draw on and what we need to find out?
And since when we were studying it?
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Where I feel my study can contribute to previous work is
Exploring all 3 perspectives
Why I chose engineering: I grew up with my Dad on this design desk – pencil – paper – rubber
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Poem – is also a bit of fun – if anything then you can get this tip for summarising research in a creative format.
I will use this to illustrate my findings
Hopefully those interested in research can also find this as a potential way to make sense of transcripts in the initial stages of data collection; helps crystallise salient points and observations.
Signature pedagogy: reverse engineering – bec this is what happens in the real world – and also this is how students can learn how things work (opening the black box)
Digital capability – rarely in explicit learning outcomes.
Digital transformed engineering: not just the design is digital now and simulation, modelling programmes.
Modelling is the problem-solving; modelling also now happens in the manufacturing, delivery areas!
Many interviews talked about the good engineering students: as having the science, applied maths but also those who are creative problem-solvers and able to connect theory with application.
The analysis traditionally was the task of the engineer
The technician’s task was the drawing it out in AUTOCAD, design package
Engineers can now connect analysis with the drawing out – BUT also
Now technicians are becoming more skilled in AUTOCAD, and so highly skilled.
Graduates need these skills.
Team work – and solving human, environmental problems (another interviewee talked about designing humanitarian drones in relief areas which are one way)
Global work – necessary to communicate and aware of intercultural issues
Although some coverage
Students left to arrange it: What’s App groups,
BUT also some institutional solutions: e.g. shared drive for team work.
Independence – picking up on their own (in context of disciplinary task) & from peers
Lifelong learning – employer: of those employed in engineering: 50% big business, 50% in small – different software provision
=chimes with confident, agile learners – eg Oxford Brookes DL attributes
Getting principles, see how students are able to connect theory with modelling and analysis (same tool!!)
Then they can pick up other tools easier.
NOT MY ROLE, NO TIME.
Illustration that within the disciplines, sub-disciplines can determine and prioritise different areas of digital capabilities
e.g. in the case of motorsport, because of needing to rely on sponsorship money, students documenting their work and achievements and crediting sponsors is much more prominent than in other areas of engineering (LinkedIn, Twitter and websites).
Most traditional sub-disciplines: shipbuilding and construction (just watched I, Daniel Blake – exactly about someone working in construction who has to learn digital skills to even apply for JobSeeker Allowance).
I don’t think at this stage I am saying anything unusual --- still some work to do on this.
Suffice to say this work is worth doing!