{"id":322,"date":"2017-09-18T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/design\/?p=322"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:09:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T21:09:44","slug":"digitally-engaged-learning-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/design\/digitally-engaged-learning-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitally engaged learning 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Digitally Engaged Learning – DEL 2017 conference gathered around 100 academics and practitioners at Central St Martins, UAL, to discuss Teaching\/Making \u2013 Marking\/Teaching.<\/p>\n

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The conference was opened by Diana Arce\u2019s (http:\/\/visualosmosis.com) powerful appeal to not forget the supremacy of \u2018real\u2019 human action and interaction. The digital can and should be used to connect people face-to-face. Digital data needs to be used to create equality, fight racism and stereotypes, argues Diana.<\/p>\n

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Off to parallel tracks. Elizabeth Kaliva\u2019s very interesting talk demonstrated how staff, students and alumni at KISD (https:\/\/kisd.de\/en\/) co-create digital learning environments. A WordPress-based social learning environment facilitates project-based collaborative learning. Everyone can create a space to promote a project, but not all projects maintain online activity successfully, up to the end or beyond the project\u2019s end. Projects with high member cohesion, clear roles, and well-maintained deadlines manage to engage in online social learning and interaction much better.<\/p>\n

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Parson\u2019s (https:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/parsons\/) Mariah Doren and Anette Millington demonstrated how reflection is facilitated through the creation of e-portfolios. In and after each step in creating artefacts for the e-portfolio, students are asked \u201cWhat did you learn from this exercise? What do you now know what you didn\u2019t know before?\u201d The answer to this question is the learning that is taken forward to the next stage of the portfolio building activities. They have developed a rubric to analyse the effectiveness on reflection on action (on the e-portfolio), too.<\/p>\n

After lunch, our very own Georgy Holden from the Open University, presented students\u2019 perceptions on the OpenDesignStudio as part of our eSTEeM funded scholarship project \u201cAre we making progress?\u201d. Georgy reported that we indeed do make progress. Students value OpenStudio and engage in social learning, but not equally at all levels of study across our qualification. How can we facilitate higher level students to benefit from the social learning opportunities the OpenStudio offers as much as first level students do?<\/p>\n

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The final panel introduced the \u2018Feminist Internet\u2019 to the delegates. Students from UAL participated in a 10-day workshop to create a manifesto and example projects that embody the feminist manifesto\u2019s principles. Their presentations returned to where the day had started, the call for more inclusive digital practices.<\/p>\n

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The second day had a fantastic start from Thomas Castro and his work at LUST and LUST lab in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n