UAL Learning & Teaching Day 2014 - Developing Practice Based Arts Massive Open Online Learning Communities UAL Learning & Teaching Day 2014 Crossing Borders: Enhancing Teaching and Learning at UAL This year the Centre for Learning and Teaching Art and Design (CLTAD)'s Learning and Teaching day theme Crossing Borders will explore how collaboration, in its many forms, can support students' learning. The conference will be held on Wednesday 15th of January, 2014 at Chelsea College of Art,6 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU. Brief description of session and activities Chris Follows: DIAL Project Manager, Digital Integration into arts Learning (DIAL), CLTAD This presentation aims to explore and question the challenges, motivations and benefits of staff and students participating in massive open online learning communities, as a casual observer and/or as an active contributor. How important is being online as a learner and/or teacher to our careers and creative practice? Chris Follows will draw from his experiences of the following online open educational practice, projects, interests and activities: The agile development of process.arts.ac.uk The Arts Learning and Teaching projects ALTO & ALTO UK A year long Open University SCORE Fellowship And the Digital Integration into Arts Learning (DIAL) project Chris will summarise a broad selection of the key findings, issues and lessons learned from across these projects, interests and activities and relate these to the current technological and pedagogical challenges facing the HE sector today, including staff and student engagement and use of online technology for enhancing learning and teaching practice. Chris will draw on Visitors and Residents principle: A useful typology for online engagement
 by David S. White and Alison Le Cornu to highlight many of the evolving agile open online Innovation and activities here at UAL. Chris will introduce and invite participation in a new initiative http://www.artsmooc.org: a new experimental social enterprise approach to integrating online open educational practice into practical face-to-face based arts subjects, bringing together a unique ‘hands on’ research and development network/consortium. Artsmooc focuses on addressing the digital/web literacies challenges based on the creative needs of its stakeholder groups by co-developing and creating new arts MOOCs Massive open online course/communities, learning environments and interest groups with and for its stakeholders. How will students be involved in the session? Updates from DIAL Student researchers and ambassadors will be included in the session. A student may be invited from the current Professional Online Identities Pilot Programme 2013/14 What will participants take away from the session? New perspectives on open educational practice and the developing professional online identities.

1. Developing Practice Based Arts Massive Open Online Learning Communities
UAL Learning & Teaching Day 2014, Chelsea College of Arts
Chris Follows | DIAL Project Manager, Digital Integration into arts Learning (DIAL)
At CLTAD and Technical Coordinator for Digital L&T at Chelsea
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- 10 Years at UAL, for past 4 years working on projects
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- The agile development of process.arts.ac.uk (Grassroots development) since 2006
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- A year long Open University SCORE Fellowship (Explore the use and reuse of OER)
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- The Arts Learning and Teaching projects ALTO & ALTO UK (JISC funded project to create a
OER repository)
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- Digital Integration into Arts Learning (DIAL) project
• What does all this mean in terms of my practice professional practice?

2. http://process.arts.ac.uk/

4. David White
Visitors & Residents
Principle
David presenting at
Visitors and Residents
JISC NETSHILLS
workshop
14/01/14

5. Visitors and Residents and Practice
For Arts UAL

6. My Visitors and Residents Map

7. How/Should staff and students participate in open
online learning communities?
As a casual observer (Visitor) or as an active contributor (Resident):
What are the:
- - Challenges
- - Motivations (Motivation to Engage)
• - Benefits?
• How important is being ‘resident’ online as a learner and/or teacher to our
careers and creative & professional practice? – DIAL explored this area …

8. Digital integration into Arts Learning (DIAL Project)
JISC Developing Digital Literacies Programme & CLTAD
Twitter: @DIALProject and @ProcessArtsUAL
Aims: Cultural change and improved graduate employability
Objectives: Encourage and support self-sustaining communities of practice in the creation of:
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New resources
Processes (self sustaining and sustainable models)
Learning networks for supporting digital literacies
Approach:
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Self-identifying groups and Individuals
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Provide small support incentives, replacement hours, student researchers, equipment loans,
mentorship, online tools/development and support etc.
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Encourage partnerships and collaboration across projects.

9. What DIAL did: Baselining and Groups
The digital baseline blogs
http://ualdigitalbaseline.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
A place for staff and students to contribute, view and
map with the project, how we at UAL are integrating the
‘digital’ into all aspects of our day-to day practice.
Developed & supported
Communities of Practice and Interest groups
http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/dial-projects-and-activities
DIAL supported the development of Clusters Groups, promoting
good practice and sharing interests

10. 6 X DIAL CoP groups: Led and stewarded by the group initiators and participants
Who:
6 x Stewards (5 staff 1 student)
60+ BA Students & Alumni and
15 Staff (Participants)
Collaboration partners: DIAL, CLTAD, CSM PDP, SEE,
Learn IT, OD&L, Own-IT, CC Skills
Resources:
Resource posts on process.arts documentation,
resources & OERs (80+ resources, each receiving between
1k to 6k reads)(Second pilot) Online Identities Pilot
Programme 2013/14 (First pilot) Online Identities POI
Programme 2013 Exploring new approaches LSP Lego
Serious Play Identified key skills a graduate should have for
developing online professional practice (Data, standards,
possible unit)
Who:
3 x Stewards
15 Staff and 5 Students (Participants)
Collaboration partners DIAL, CLTAD
Resources:
Resources on process.arts (40 resources between 300 and 3k
views per post)
Gained UAL communities of practice funding and college wide
interest for this project
Student developer resources
Who:
1 x Steward
4 x Staff
20+ MA Students (Participants)
Collaboration partners DIAL, CLTAD, SEE,
Speaking Out. MA LCF Fashion Entrepreneurship
Resources:
Video Presentation Skills Resources on process.arts (20
resources between 400 and 3k views per post)
Video presentation skills, reflections: on developing
VPS workshops
Workshop documentation - Teaching video presentation skills
Journey Blog
Who:
3 x Stewards
52 x Library services staff (Participants)
Collaboration partners DIAL, CLTAD, Library services
Resources:
The Things unlimited resource group (15 Resources between
500 and 2k views per post)
The final prototype see examples here
The Forum
LILAC Conference poster
Journey: Blog
Who:
2 x Stewards
40 Staff (Participants)
Collaboration partners All Colleges, DIAL, CLTAD, ALTO &
ALTO UK
Resources:
Resources on process.arts OER (30 Resources between 600
and 12k views per post)
Co-development of the Open Practice Unit: Here
Developed an Open UAL Policy ‘Draft document’:
http://goo.gl/CY2580
Digital literacies for open education Focus groups
Journey: Blog
Who:
1 x Steward
70 x Student teachers PG Cert (Participants)
Collaboration partners DIAL, CLTAD
Resources:
Student Teacher videos: 75 self-reflective videos
CLTAD Teaching Development Projects. (Between 400 and
3k views per resource post)
The monthly activities for the two core units:
Monthly activities & examples Teaching Development Project
unit: Monthly activities & examples.
Online Reflective Practice Case Studies
Journey: Blog

11. 6 x Community of Interest: DIAL supported the development of
Clusters Groups, promoting good practice and sharing interests
• Clusters are stewarded by DIAL or others and may have many different affiliates. Resources are organised by either
project groups or clustered by related tags
Many other DIAL related projects: Research groups, conference groups, experimental groups and new projects in the early
stages of development receive support and advice from DIAL

12. What deliverables did the project produce?
Open Educational Resources (OERs) including:
DIAL Digital literacies model and approach
Video Resources
Workshops/teaching templates
Activities for units
Case studies
New prototypes
Open Practice unit development
Open UAL/Scholarship Policy document
Digital Literacies UAL Glossary of Terms and new standards
Emerging definitions of Digital Literacies at UAL
Approaches for assessing Digital Literacy Levels
Impacts: The DIAL project and groups
“The DIAL resources attached to these core attributes have
influenced a staged approach at Glasgow School of Art which
aims to provide developmental and iterative initiatives to
support existing expertise as well as encourage adapted forms
of engaging with emerging technologies.”
Read more here on process.arts and DIAL blog
‘Self-identified digital skills and attributes
needed to support personal and professional
digital practice, ranging from awareness and
participation, application of good practice
through to participation in emergent and
innovative digital practices’. DIAL 2012
“I was the tutor who felt physically sick having to
engage with the digital. I can see that potentially
it could enhance the student experience and,
dare I say it, the tutor experience! However, the
language of the digital may as well be in Swahili
(sp.?) for all I can understand. I’m grateful that
the DIAL team clearly understand this.”
See Michael Spencer blog post comment
Influenced and supported strategic planning
Created new UAL cross college Collaborations for Digital Literacies Support

13. Lessons learned and reflection
Tools:
• Bring your own Device (Expected & Essential)
• Bring your own environment (need to support)
• More Course Equipment (Staff and Students)
• Finding a balance between face-to-face and digital
People/ Individuals & development:
• Huge need for support in creative online practice
• Huge gap in support for creative online practice
• Lots of fear of not being ‘Digitally Ready’ for online
practice
• Managing Expectations
• Guidance and support for Digital Literacies
• A deeper Understanding of what student DLs needs
• Students providing project support
• Open practice and online reflection
• Alumni and post grad/research, need DL support
• Staff and students working and exploring DLs together
University Integration:
• Trust & confidence: Dealing with DLs can be tricky
and sensitive work. Handle with care
• Small steps towards local strategy
• Partnerships for sustainable growth, exchange
expertise
College integration
• Understand the disciplines, culture and processes
• Defining DLs and competencies: this needs to be
an agile on-going process
• Proof of concept/use case for equipment needs
• Lack of digital strategies in Colleges and sharing
of experience
Curriculum integration
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Huge gap in support for creative online practice
How/do we need to embed DLs
Communication email & course calendars
Teach Digital Literacies in context
Little time for DLs with busy courses & teams

14. Click image to
see video

15. What Next at UAL?
CLTAD DIAL 2014
CLTAD Open Practice Unit

16. What Next for Open
Educational Practice?
The original principles of ‘cMOOCs’,
based on connectivism, and its four
principles – autonomy, diversity,
connectedness and openness.
The term MOOC 2008
by Dave Cormier
Stephen Downes and George
Siemens connectivist open learning
First MOOCs 2011, then Stanford
professor Sebastian Thrun and Peter
Norvig Graduate-level artificial
Intelligence MOOC
MOOC Image above: Every letter negotiable
Attribution Some rights reserved by mathplourde

17. http://www.artsmooc.org/
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artsmooc is a new experimental social
enterprise approach to integrating online open
educational practice into practical face-to-face
based arts subjects, bringing together a unique
‘hands on’ research and development network/
consortium.
•
artsmooc focuses on addressing the digital/
web literacies challenges based on the creative
needs of its stakeholder groups by co-developing
and creating new arts MOOCs Massive open online
course/communities, learning environments and
interest groups with and for its stakeholders.

18. Thank You
Email: c.follows@arts.ac.uk
Twitter: @ProcessArtsUAL
Online: http://process.arts.ac.uk/