What do your incoming students’ expect from your institution’s digital environment? This panel discussion explored the tensions between institutional and personal learning practices of students as they transition from school to college or university.

2. Student expectations of entering
higher education
Helen Beetham - Independent consultant
Sarah Knight - Senior co-design manager, Jisc
David White - Head ofTeL, University of the Arts London

3. » Anish Bagga, Co-founder, Unitu (Jisc SOSI project)
» Lillith Dillon-Parkin - UAL
» Tatiana Nalisova, Studying MA CharacterAnimation – UAL
Students taking part
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4. » The Digital Student project – activity & outputs (10 mins)
» Discussion (40 mins)
» Wrap-up (10 mins)
Format
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5. The Digital Student – Research
» HE study
› Literature review
› Institutional interviews
› Student focus group
› Student interviews
› Stakeholder interviews
#digitalstudent
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6. The Digital Student – Research
» Stakeholder consultations
› 7 challenge areas
» School focused study
» FE and Skills study (ongoing)
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7. Entitlement Enhancement
» Wifi (unblocked)
» Hardware/software
» BYOD
» Lots of digital resources
» Non mandatory support
» Lecture capture
» Organisational info
» Use of tech in lectures
» Social media?
» Learning & teaching?
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8. Beetham & Sharpe 2009
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9. digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org
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» 50 institutional exemplars (based round the 7 challenge areas)
» ‘Digital Students are Different’ posters
» ‘Enhancing the Digital Experience for Students’ cards
» ‘The Student Digital Experience in 2020’
» ‘Enhancing the student digital experience: a strategic approach’
guide: jisc.ac.uk/guides/enhancing-the-student-digital-experience
The Digital Student – Outcomes (resources you can use)

10. jisc.ac.uk/guides/enhancing-
the-student-digital-experience
Enhancing the student digital experience: a strategic approach
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11. Digital students are different posters
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12. Enhancing the digital student experience postcards
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13. Discussion
What technologies did you expect your university to
provide when you arrived?

14. Discussion
How does the way you organise your online life/stuff overlap
with the digital software/platforms your university provides?

15. Discussion
What are your favourite tools or techniques when using
technology in your course?

16. Discussion
Generally it appears that students have limited expectations
of the digital in formal contexts for learning and teaching…
- is this something we need to challenge?

17. Discussion
To what extent should institutions attempt to support student's
'informal' digital capabilities - is it any of our business?

18. Discussion
Will HE and FE institutions ever have the capacity to go beyond
meeting 'expectations' towards providing pedagogically
meaningful 'enhancements’?

19. Final reflections
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20. Find out more…
Contact…
Except where otherwise noted, this
work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
Sarah Knight
Senior co-design manager, Jisc
sarah.knight@jisc.ac.uk
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