The Digital Researcher: Collaborative delivery and learning in practice [160] Home : ALT Online Winter Conference 2018

The Digital Researcher: Collaborative delivery and learning in practice [160]

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Tue, Dec 11 2018, 10:00am – 11:00am

Description

This session will introduce the University of Hull’s Digital Researcher online course. The Digital Researcher was created to support postgraduate students and research-active staff navigating the territory of online publishing, social media, the collection of research data, data storage, copyright and licensing – all within the context of academic study and research. While essential components of research, students and staff often find some of these to be ‘dull’ or ‘unengaging’, and so the course provided a novel way of addressing these issues through contextual learning with a focus on discussion. The first implementation of The Digital Student had an uptake of over 150 sign-ups with 51 completions, with another session due in November this year.

Delivered online over the course of a calendar week (7 days), the Digital Student represented the first significant collaboration between three areas of professional services within the university. This has led to important reflections on the nature of collaboration work within professional services, and the advantages of such approaches. The instructional design approach that was taken to developing the course applied the concepts of MOOCs. As this was delivered within the institutional VLE Canvas and was opened to all students and staff at the University of Hull, it may, however, be better described as a Small Online Closed Course (SOOC).

A range of technologies and tools both within and external to Canvas were used to deliver this course. This included: