Getting started with personal and professional digital capacity: An Open Course

Getting started with personal and professional digital capacity: An Open Course

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  Getting started withpersonal and professional digital capacity: an open course for educators in Irish higher education The EDTL Project Team EdTech Winter Conference, 13 January 2022 #IUADigEd
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  Background - EDTL EnhancingDigital Teaching & Learning project is funded through Higher Education Authority (HEA) Innovation & Transformation Programme 2019-2021 (extended to September 2022) This project aims to mainstream digital in teaching and learning activities in Irish Universities, by addressing the professional development of all who teach or support teaching and learning.
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  University Activities • Digitalcontent: video creation, podcasting, H5P • Student digital skills, digital identity • Assessment: digitally enhanced assessment, developing student skills, academic integrity initiatives, peer assessment • Teaching online, remote teaching, digital communities, social bookmarking, hybrid teaching, flipped learning • Open resources: using, modifying, creating • Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
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  European Framework forthe Digital Competency of Educators (DigCompEdu) Unifying Framework
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  Awarding the (pilot)badge • September 2020 22 recipients, 4 universities • December 2020 5 recipients, 2 universities • April 2021 22 recipients, 3 universities • July 2021 8 recipients, 3 universities Awarded as part of an accredited PD module or unaccredited activities.
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  Developing the course ABCLearning Design approach
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  Some details • 6unit/week course, approx. 25 learner hours • Mostly self-paced, 2 live webinars (recorded) • Unit 1 = self reflection (DigCompEdu) • Units 2,3 = explore & demonstrate a new skill • Units 4,5 = plan a digital enhancement • Unit 6 = claim your badge (produce evidence within a peer triad) • Does not provide technical training, rather imparts a structure for individual exploration and development
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  What was mostchallenging?
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  What was yourfavourite thing?
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  Next Steps • Review& revise GSPPDC course • Offer facilitator led version in Spring/Summer 2022 • Local/institutional versions • Embed into accredited CPD • Offered as stand-alone non-accredited formal CPD • Materials will be available to download from NFETL and EDTL websites
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  Full course developmentteam • Suzanne Stone & Rob Lowney, Dublin City University • Morag Munro, Maynooth University • Kate Molloy, National University of Ireland, Galway • David Moloney, University of Limerick • David Hamill, Trinity College Dublin • Mairéad O’Reilly, University College Dublin • Cliodhna O’Callaghan, University College Cork • Sharon Flynn, Irish Universities Association
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  Links Facilitator Led coursehttps://opencourses.ie/opencourse/getting-started-with- personal-and-professional-digital-capacity/ Enhancing Digital Teaching & Learning, project website https://edtl.blog/ National Forum, professional development framework https://www.teachingandlearning.ie/our-priorities/professional-development/the- national-professional-development-framework-pdf-for-all-staff-who-teach-in- higher-education/ Digital Competency Framework for Educators (DigCompEdu) https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcompedu ABC Learning Design Framework (at DCU) https://www.dcu.ie/teu/abc-vle
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  Thank You!
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  Facilitator Training • 5additional learner hours for the facilitator badge