Description of what the University of Warwick Academic Technologies Team does, slides produced for IT Services colleagues.

1. introducing …
the academic technologies team
supporting the use of technology for
teaching, learning and research at the
University of Warwick
Presentation to IT Services Departmental Meeting Fri 8th Feb 2013
https://files.warwick.ac.uk/academictech/files/intro+to+the+academictech+team+20130205+v5.ppt

2. the academic technologies team
coursework e-learning digital
management moodle projects humanities
email the team at: academictech@warwick.ac.uk

3. building on existing success
some of you already know Chris, Steve and Rob
new recruits Dec 2012 - March 2013: Russell,
Jim, Amber, Richard, David, Steve R
establishing new digital humanities function
moodle is rolling out
comms is in planning to promote our service …
webpages, insite, fac/dep newsletters etc

4. scope STUDENT AS
PRODUCER
eLearning / technology
COURSEWORK
MANAGEMEN CLASSROOM enhanced learning
T TECH
fairly familiar territory
ASSESSMENT
BUT
huge differences in use,
VLEs TEACHING uptake and support needs
ONLINE
CONTENT

5. scope STUDENT AS
RESEARCHER
technology in research RESEARCH
DATA MGT
not technology about research or RESEARCH
research about technology, but the use
of technology in research. Includes e- RESEARCH
WEBSITES
science, e-research, digital research,
digital humanities … fuzzy boundaries
OPEN ACCESS E-JOURNALS
and pretty new for universities to
DIGITAL
address this in a coherent way HUMANITIES

6. scope STUDENT AS STUDENT AS
PRODUCER RESEARCHER
COURSEWORK
MANAGEMEN CLASSROOM RESEARCH
T TECH DATA MGT
ASSESSMENT RESEARCH
VLEs RESEARCH
TEACHING
WEBSITES
ONLINE
OPEN ACCESS E-JOURNALS
CONTENT
DIGITAL
HUMANITIES
“academic technologies”
the use of technology to support learning, teaching and research

7. scope STUDENT AS STUDENT AS
PRODUCER RESEARCHER
COURSEWORK
MANAGEMEN CLASSROOM RESEARCH
T TECH DATA MGT
ASSESSMENT RESEARCH
VLEs RESEARCH
TEACHING
WEBSITES
ONLINE
OPEN ACCESS E-JOURNALS
CONTENT
DIGITAL
context of academic HUMANITIES
technologies:
outreach
engagement
“impact”

8. scope STUDENT AS STUDENT AS
PRODUCER RESEARCHER
COURSEWORK
MANAGEMEN CLASSROOM RESEARCH
T TECH DATA MGT
ASSESSMENT RESEARCH DIGITISATION
???????????
VLEs RESEARCH
TEACHING
WEBSITES
ONLINE
OPEN ACCESS E-JOURNALS
CONTENT
ONLINE
DIGITAL
COURSES
HUMANITIES
????????
the scope changes as
the context changes
innovation support
responsive provision

9. the sorts of things we do
• work with services to promote and develop ITS provision for
teaching and research
• advise academics on technology selection, working closely
with colleagues across university support services
• run teaching-specific services: e.g Moodle
• collaborate with services to integrate new capabilities: e.g
Coursework Management
• signpost good practices, support and training at Warwick
• collaborate with projects doing new things: e.g proposed PRS
project
• champion user requirements: e.g journal management

10. evaluating technologies for academic uses

11. people networks: we collaborate

12. what is … digital humanities?
1
existing tools put to new uses
digitisation, annotation,
presentation …
text as data, data as images, maps,
timelines … 4
2
social media, participatory,
3
crowdsourcing …
controversial, fuzzy, buzzy
our priorities: web content, matchmaking creative technologists,
upskilling academics, data management, collaboration tools,
applications requirements etc
1) http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/?id=4fb24d5d 2) from Mark Knights Making History Course, Warwick
3) http://commonsinabox.org/ 4) https://www.facebook.com/TranscribeBentham

13. on the horizon … RDM RESEARCH
DATA MGT
5
drivers:
1
[+] opportunity: “reproduceability”,
data citation, data publication
[-] compliance: the university’s own
data policy, funder requirements
4
implications for ITS: 3
2
early days, explorations start soon http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/
library-hosted catalogue of datasets, frameworks for storage and
archive, maybe moving towards embedded workflow solutions
across register/store/manage/cite
1) http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm/ 2) http://cardio.dcc.ac.uk/ 3) http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
4) http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/datum/health/ 5) http://figshare.com/

14. what all this means for ITS colleagues
we want to ensure that academics pick the best tools for the job,
using ITS provision wherever that’s the best fit, so:
•we will refer people on to services with well-informed
requirements
•we will welcome referrals from colleagues where we can help
refine requirements for research and teaching purposes
•we will request enhancements to existing services, based on
our evidence and expertise
•we will work with services to pilot and evaluate new provision
•we will work with colleagues to improve the evidence base
about current practice and emerging needs

15. the academic technologies team
coursework e-learning digital
management moodle projects humanities
email the team at: academictech@warwick.ac.uk