Leicester Agenda

Agenda for Consultation Event for the Skills Sector Digital Student project:

Padlet from the day: http://padlet.com/sarahknight/digitalstudentskills

Storify from the day: https://storify.com/Jisc/digital-student-event

Vlog post from participant Melissa Gaffney, a student at the University of Lincoln – here.

14 April 2016

Mercure Leicester The Grand Hotel
Granby Street
Leicester
LE1 6ES

• 10:00 – Arrival and registration

  Time to look at publications and posters.

• 10:30 Welcome and introductions –  Sarah Knight,  Senior co-design manager

  Introducing the aims of the digital student Skills project, the consultation process, and what we hope to get out of the day.

• 10:50 – Meeting the needs of all learners; What the research says –   Giles Pepler, Sero Consulting

  Headline findings from the project literature review.

  Activity: Group discussion what are your key challenges for supporting the student digital experience?

• 11:30 – Refreshment break

  Time to review findings from other groups.

• 11:45 – Gathering learners’ views –  Nick Jeans, Sero Consulting and Ellen Lessner, Jisc consultant

  Focus group card sort themes and activity

  Focus group process

• 12:45 – Supporting our learners’ digital experience –     Catriona Appleton, Jisc Account Manager

  Cat’s Padlet: http://padlet.com/catriona_moore/digitalstudent

• 13:15 – Lunch

  Time to review and reflect on outcomes of the morning.

  *14:00 – What Skills learners say –  Giles Pepler, Sero Consulting

  Summary of Jisc Digital Student Skills Sector study: preliminary review of the Learner Focus Groups

• 14:30 – More tools for engaging learners

  Examples of tools and techniques to engage learners in conversations about digital projects and agendas:

  • Using the learner profile form (Giles Pepler)
  • Using social media and other informal methods (Ellen Lessner and Nick Jeans) (Link to Bloom’s Taxonomy of Apps)(Learning Wheels (Blackburn College)
  • Facilitating conversations around the digital (benchmarking learners’ digital experiences and enhancing the student digital experience postcards) (Sarah Knight).
  • Useful Apps – Slack (Project management) and Post It Plus (photograph post-its and use them digitally) and Teaching with Tablets Mooc (with thanks to James Atkinson, U of Northampton)

• 15:10 – Next steps

  • What are the priorities for your provider?
  • What support would help from Jisc and our partners?
  • What one thing could your provider do?

• 15:30 Close