Keynote adapted slides from Hugh Davis BYOD talk

1. University Strategy & Digital
Literacies
BYOD Project Board Away Day
University of Ulster
April 2014
Fiona Harvey
Education Development Manager
Centre for Innovation in Technologies & Education

2. CITE
University Education
Faculties
Academics & Teaching Staff
Student Engagement
Committees
Technology Enhanced Living & Learning
(TELL)
Education (EAG)
University Systems Strategy (USSPB)
Research
Web and Internet Science Group
Pedagogic & TEL Research
Horizon Watching
Academic Services
Information Services (iSolutions)
Library
Student Services
CITE :
Centre for
Innovation
in Technologies
& Education

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Part of an
Educational
Strategy?
“our students will be
equipped to live, thrive,
learn, work, collaborate,
influence and lead in the
increasingly digital and
connected world”
Prof Hugh Davis, Director CITE, University of Southampton

4. We need to
develop digital
literacies
We must provide
learning experiences
that encourages DL
We need real world
learning environment
(inc BYOD)
Strategies & Policies
to support above
In a connected world

5. DIGITAL LITERACIES?

6. Information
LITERACYICT Skills
Digital
Scholarship
Content creation
Content curation Collaborating online
Communication
Online identity
Evaluating
Applications

7. Digital literacies are the
skills needed to live, learn
work, collaborate, influence
and lead in the virtual
digital world
We are preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using work-
practices we don’t yet know, supported by tools not yet invented.

8. “DIGITAL LITERACY DEFINES
THOSE CAPABILITIES
which fit an individual for living, learning and
working in a digital society”
JISC, 2009

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What’s wrong with VLE’s?
!
Don’t encourage learners to take responsibility for
their own learning, tools or digital literacy
Outdated view of teaching as “push”
Teacher at the centre not the student or the network
Not integrated with tools & environments for education
Closed to networked learning
Lock you in

10. The VLE is Dead - long live the PLE

11. An aside on the “Digital
Natives” argument
Learning has not changed
Expectations of how it should be
done has
Students are familiar with Facebook
but not how to use tech for
education
Better distinction:
‘Digital Visitors & Residents’
(Le Cornu & White, 2009)

12. How do digital residents behave?
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13. They have their own toolkits

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They build on-line identity and
Reputation
Profiles, blogs, Twitter, social media tools
Contributions: YouTube, SlideShare etc
What does the web think of you? Social Mention, Reppler, Klout
Digital Open Badges

15. !
Their personal learning environments
PLN tools emerging that use semantics to connect the right
people
Help seeking tools

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OWN DEVICESWhich they administer themselves

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HIGH EXPECTATIONS
87% COLLEGE STUDENTS CONSIDER
TECHNOLOGY WHEN DECIDING ON WHICH
UNIVERSITY
92% HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SAID
TECHNOLOGY
IS KEY DIFFERENTIATOR
(21ST CENTURY CAMPUS REPORT)

19. CHALLENGES?

20. POLICY & SECURITY
Most of the time people only want access to the
internet (including University intranet sites)
When accessing university systems we need a
password challenge and single sign on
Already in place: Acceptable use; Virus protection
Password protection of devices
Problem is they are not enforceable - its a social
thing!

21. ADDRESSING SECURITY
CONCERNS
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Require users to register every device
Utilise two-factor authentication
Provide anti-virus/malware software
Scanning devices
Educating students and staff
Verifiying users’ understanding
Locking down core network
Relying on virtualisation and internal cloud
CDWG, Bring Your own Device, “Adapting the Flood of Personal mobile computing accessing campus networks”

22. Some issues Universities
must decide
What devices will we support?
How will we support them?
Who will pay for software/apps?
Access to University systems?
If the Uni supplies it, who owns it (eg Apple ID’s?)
Letting go of control but still ensuring
reliable and secure systems - tricky balance

23. Well supported BYOD environment aligned to
university strategies offers benefits:
Enables technology rich classrooms
Inititates new ways of learning
Increases student engagement

24. Thank you
Develop digital literacies for staff and students
Have clear, flexible policies and strategy in place
Provide learning experiences that encourage DL
Ensure students have a ‘real world’ learning environment
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