jisc conference 2011

JISC 2011

Zak Mensahe-Learning OfficerJISC Digital Media

www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk@jiscdigital@zakmensah

Using digital media to improve teaching and learning

#jiscdigital

Digital Media labels

FlexibleScalableAffordableMeasurable

Daunting

MP3, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, AAC,

WMA, WAV, B-WAV, RF64

Costly

Time consuming

Expensive

Unsustainable

Flexible Workflows

WHY focus on digital media?

InstitutionPolicy, guides, marketing

Department and course levelTeaching and learning, support

Teaching face to face & online

Research

Supporting your colleagues

Marketing

Oxford's iTunes U site won the Websites category in the Association of Commonwealth Universities' PR, Marketing and Communications Awards 2008

http://itunes.ox.ac.uk/

Screencasting for T&L

Lecture capture

Support material (e.g. how-to’s)

Media enhanced feedback

Student submission

Pre-session

During session

Post-session

Scalable Workflows

MediaAudience

WHY focus on digital media?

Affordable Process

WHY focus on digital media?

My interest is whilst video is attractive,

is it an effective learning platform and

who will pay for it as original content will

win over archive. Johnathan Vernon

Source: http://bit.ly/g74Owk

“

http://studentasproducer.lincoln.ac.uk/

Measurable Process

WHY focus on digital media?

More than 9.5 million downloads have been made from our site* Oxford’s iTunes U

* http://bit.ly/dKawUh

FlexibleScalableAffordableMeasurableWorkflowProcess

FlexibleScalableAffordableMeasurableWorkflowProcess

Flexible

Efficient

“ ...approached in a systematic and structured way, the potential rewards can be significant, and beneficial for both the learner and the academic practitioner.”

Su White in Fry, Ketteridge, Marshall , Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Department

http://bit.ly/f2sbsl

Is lecture capture the single worst example of poor educational technology use in higher education?

www.masmithers.com/2011/03/11/is-lecture-capture-the-worst-educational-technology/

In the University of Nottingham, podcasting kits (digital recording kits) comprising digital audio recorders are available to staff for recording lectures as well as for creating podcasts.

ChoicesContext

Finding

Creating

Free resources

http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/

http://bobnational.net/

http://open.jorum.ac.uk/

Scalable

Flexible

Affordable

Measurable

WORKFLOWS AND PROCESSES