DIAL presentation slides for JISC Learning and Teaching Experts meeting Birmingham, 23 April 2013

1. DIAL project UAL
Digital integration into Arts Learning
Chris Follows & Lindsay Jordan
University of Arts London
JISC Learning and Teaching Experts meeting
Birmingham, 23 April 2013
@DIALProject
http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/dial-projects-and-activities

2. What has been the greatest learning from the project for your institution?
Success in developing a sustainable CoP model
for 'self identifying groups’:
Achievable goals/Realisable targets
Subject focused/specificity
Low maintenance
Independence, Self motivated
Motivate others by sharing best practice
As well as producing resources & case studies, the group/community are
seen as a live and agile resource, which will grow and become self-sustaining.
Staff and students take this DL journey together.

3. DIAL Projects
DIAL is a
change
programme
http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/dial-projects-and-activities

4. DIAL has a unique and valuable
overview/insight of the UAL digital
landscape across the all colleges
of the university, useful for others
to reference.
http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/
dial-projects-and-activities
Some DIAL Activities:

5. Defining DLs and competences is an ongoing and agile process, open for
contribution and discussion.

6. What are you most pleased to have achieved?
Cross collaboration between projects, departments, services and course
students and staff.
Development and Learning (Bespoke training, staff and students train
together – first time)
SEE (Student engagement)
OWN-IT (Support IP integration, embed and training)
Course Teams (Working with busy staff and courses can be difficult)
An institutional willingness to support, adopt and embed DL development
and support and DIAL approach long term.
Open content, sharing of resources and processes via DIAL communities
and groups
Engagement with the digitally scared, CoP model reaches groups unlikely to
have been engaged through other means.

7. http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/professional-online-identities-poi-programme-2013

8. http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/04/22/professional-identities-workshop/

9. What next for your institution to further develop digital
literacies?
Embed DLs development long term and continue DIAL work
and approach.
Celebration/benchmarking event Nov 2013 where we plan to
debate & share DIAL achievements and discuss its future.
SEE and CC skills research commission.
Teaching/curriculum digital integration