This document discusses how student-staff partnerships can support the development of digital teaching practices. It explores how partnerships that take a digital literacies approach and are pedagogy-led, sustainable, involve the whole cohort, and recognize student expertise can create communities of practice. Examples are provided of three case studies of projects developed through such partnerships that addressed specific educational needs, including reviews of learning apps, a choose your own adventure chemistry lab safety game, and a virtual reality campus tour. Benefits highlighted include staff being willing to try new digital approaches and students feeling able to contribute to teaching quality.

1. Can student-staff partnerships support the development of digital
teaching and learning practices?
Alex Patel and Bethany Cox, University of Leicester
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Developing digital capabilities?
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Using a digital literacies approach
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Practices
Skills
Functional access
Academic
literacies
Study skills
Identity
Academic
socialisation
Lea and Street, 2006 Sharpe & Beetham, 2010; and Bennett, 2014
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 Bennett, L. (2014).
Learning from the early
adopters: developing the
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(2006). The "Academic
Literacies" Model: Theory
and Applications. Theory
into Practice, 45(4), 346-351.
 Sharpe, R., & Beetham, H.
(2010). Understanding
Students' uses of
Technology for Learning:
Towards Creative
Appropriation. In R. B.
Sharpe, H. Beetham, & S.
De Freitas (Eds.), Rethinking
Learning for a Digital Age:
How Learners are Shaping
their Own Experiences (pp.
85-99). London, England
and New York, NY:
Routledge. 

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…and staff-student partnerships
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Students bring an
essential
perspective on what
it is like to learn in a
digital environment

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How do the partnerships work?
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Community of Practice
Pedagogy-led Sustainable
Whole cohort Recognition

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How do the partnerships work?
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Community of Practice
Pedagogy-led Sustainable
Whole cohort Recognition

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How do the partnerships work?
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Community of Practice
Pedagogy-led Sustainable
Whole cohort Recognition

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Who’s involved?
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Led by pedagogy…
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Sean Crevier, @busedcrev

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…to address a specific educational need
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How can we help
students to learn in
unfamiliar
environments… imagine
the distractions of a
ward round

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Student perspective is essential
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‘no digital resource
should be created
without the
perspective of a
student’
- Innovator

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Working with students is enjoyable
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Student perspectives were
‘motivating’
‘inspiring’
‘fun’
and
‘illuminating’

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Recognition of expertise
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‘Next to excellence is
the appreciation of it.’
William Makepeace
Thackeray

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Developing a community of practice
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Community of Practice

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Projects cluster into themes…
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Project: case study 1
» Reviews of student learning apps
› Need: students and lecturers don’t know
which learning apps to use.
› Solution: Collation and review of learning
apps by student group
› Olivia Bennett & NicolaClague-Baker
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Project: case study 2
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» Choose your own
adventure in
chemistry lab safety
› Need: develop higher
level thinking around
safety guidance
› Solution: text-based
adventure on lab safety
› TabithaWatson &
Duncan Parker

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Projects: case study 3
»Business SchoolVirtual
Welcome Pack
› Need: students struggle to
orient themselves on arrival on
campus
› Solution: 360 degreeVR tour
of campus as part of pre-
induction materials to help
Business students transition to
HE
› Millie Reed & MatthewAllen
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Benefits of student-staff partnerships?
"I may not have been so willing to try out new things
without the student's motivation"
Karl, Digital Innovator
"I really feel like I can contribute, as a student, to the
teaching and learning quality here at the university."
Ivana, Digital Associate
"I get to create something and improve my own curriculum
for the future"
Thanin, Digital Associate
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Thank you
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Try out some of the
project outputs over
lunch in the Coffee
Area.