Slides from the Exeter Cascade project for the JISC Lear

1. The Exeter Cascade Project:
Academic Practice in a Digital Age
Dale Potter 11 July 2012

2. The context
 Exeter a research-intensive university
 High-achieving staff and students many of whom
prefer 'traditional' research and study approaches
 BUT an appetite for change if led by scholarship:
 New campus developments including Forum building
with innovative teaching spaces
 New programmes and interdisciplinary research
centres with digital elements
 History of successful initiatives led by students as
change agents

3. Generic aim
to design and implement a range of
innovative strategies and curriculum activities
which ensure that researchers, students and staff
develop their digital capabilities
in the context of their own disciplines

4. Activities
 Baselining
the situation as is, and priorities for change
 Developing people
working with 15 postgraduate researchers to develop their
digital expertise and local influence
 Developing the curriculum
working across taught programmes to embed authentic, research-
rich activities that enhance digital capability
 Developing know-how
building online resources and activities, working in partnership
with Colleges and professional services

5. Critical values
 Digital scholarship
Knowledge practices that support learning, teaching and research,
focusing on how knowledge is generated, grown, shared,
critiqued and communicated in the discipline
 Collaboration
Activities designed by staff and PGRs, following consultation about
the needs of students and scholars in the context of different
disciplines; partnerships with professional services
 Students as change agents
Postgraduate students are key agents of change in this area, as
early-career researchers, digital natives, and emerging teachers.

6. July 2012: web site launch

7. July 2012: web site launch
 Developing digital digital scholars
– Breifng papers, learning journeys, Digital Researcher
online module (mapped to Vitae), technologies
researchers use, materials for arriving international
students, video tips, what kind of digital researcher are
you?...
 Developing the digital curriculum
– Curriculum case studies, repurposable materials, writing in
the digital university, digital bloom's taxonomy, what kind
of digital learner are you?...
 Developing the digital university
– Findings, reports, recommendations, talking heads,
resources from Supporting Academic Practice in a Digital
Age...

8. Find out more
http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/cascade/
http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/cascade/blog/
twitter: exetercascade
cascade@exeter.ac.uk
d.j.a.potter@exeter.ac.uk
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