The power of digital for change

WelcomeDr Paul Feldman

Professor David Maguire

The digital challenge

Professor David Maguire, Jisc chair and vice-chancellor, University of Greenwich

»Sectors-owned organisation for shared digital infrastructure, services, content and expertise

»Established 1993 to provide: national vision and leadership on networking and specialist information services

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Jisc in numbers

»Work with 969 education organisations

»National network infrastructure £18m users

»50% of all UK library spend on e-resources

»Over 400 digital content agreements

»Sectors save £203m annually2/03/2016 The digital challenge

The digital challenge

Of the sector, for the sector: we do three main things for you

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Shared digital infrastructur

e and services

Current examples:

Janet network, shared data

centre, eduroam wireless,

geospatial services

Future examples:

Learner analytics,

research data management,

FE college in a box

Sector wide deals with IT vendors and commercial publishers

Current examples:

Microsoft 365 email, Amazon web services,

e-journals, FE e-books

Future examples: Prevent web

filtering, Tableau, new models for

digital publishing

Expert and trusted

advice and practical

assistance

Current examples:

Open Access, Financial x-ray, cloud advice, cyber security

Future examples:

FE area reviews, national monograph

strategy

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University digital challenges

»Digital ‘Wild West’› BYOD, Wikipedia scholars, limited IP respect

»Students moving faster than university policies/ systems/ practices/ staff

»Keeping up with demand – building industrial strength solutions› MOOCs, VLE, student records system, learning

analytics, lecture capture, research data management

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Information systems

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Data

Studentrecruitment

(CRM)

Email

Student

records

Attendance

monitoring

Alumniand

development

Business intelligenc

eBuilding access controlVirtual

learning environme

ntLearning analytics

Major Jisc projects

»Janet mid-term upgrade»Learning analytics»Technology and content agreements»Open access»FE area reviews»Research data management»Technology-enhanced learning

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jisc.ac.uk

Thank You!

David Maguired.maguire@gre.ac.uk

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Professor Andrew Harrison

Creating great digital spaces for learning

Andrew Harrison

Professor of PracticeUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David

Director, Spaces That Work Ltd

Aalto University High Voltage Laboratory, Helsinki

The rules are changing…

• The internet has changed notions of place, time and space

• Emerging new methods of teaching and learning based on an improved understanding of cognition

• Effect of demographic changes on learning population

• Changing financial context for education: increased competition, pressure on resources

• Impact of changes in government policy: funding, participation, research strategy

• Blending of living, learning, working and leisure

• Life-long learning

“Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won’t survive.….”

“…the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of healthcare…. the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis.”

Peter Drucker,Forbes magazine,July 1997

Circulation as event space

More freely available space

group project work, solo work

Redefining ‘balance’ space

circulation as glue

Source: DEGW

New space models for universities

• Traditional categories of space are becoming less meaningful as space becomes less specialized, boundaries blur, and operating hours extend toward 24–7

• Space types designed primarily around patterns of human interaction rather than specific needs of particular departments, disciplines or technologies

• New space models focus on enhancing quality of life as much as on supporting the learning experience

SPECIALIZED LEARNING SPACESTailored to specific functions or teaching modalities

Limited setting types:Formal teaching, generally enclosed

Access:Embedded, departmental

GENERIC LEARNING SPACESRange of classroom types

Range of setting types:Formal teaching, open and enclosed

Access:In general circulation zones, access by schedule

INFORMALLEARNING SPACESBroad definition of learning space

Wide range of setting types:Informal and formal, social, open and enclosed

Access:Public, visible, distributed, inclusive

Tend to be: • Owned within departments, subject

specific• Involve specialized equipment• Require higher levels of

performance specification• Often higher security concerns

Tend to be: • Generic teaching settings• Often limited in flexibility

by furnishings• Used when scheduled

Tend to: • Encompass richer range of

settings• Allow choice• Be loose fit, unscheduled• Work as a network of spaces

rather than singular settings• Have food!

Creating an effective learning landscape

Source: DEGW

dSchool, Stanford University, USA

Space to support learning & teaching

• Collaborative, active learning with hands-on experiences

• Integrated, multidisciplinary

• Distributed, learning takes place anywhere/ anytime, mobile technology with social activity

• Immersive with simulated or real-world experiences

• Blended activities, online with face-to-face, mixed reality

Creating spaces to support the pedagogy

• Thinking spaces- spaces for conceiving ideas,deliberating, brainstorming

• Designing spaces - spaces for putting structure, order, and context to free-ranging ideas

• Collaborating spaces - spaces for enabling team activities

• Presenting spaces - spaces for showing things to a group

• Debating or negotiating spaces- spaces for facilitating negotiations

• Documenting spaces - spaces for describing and informing specific activities, objects, or other actions

• Making spaces - spaces for creating objects and artefacts using diverse materials and processes

• Practicing spaces - spaces for pervasively monitoring a location

• Operating spaces - spaces for controlling systems, tools, and complex environments

Shift from physical to hybrid environments• Physical environments are

increasingly equipped by, and formed through, new technological features supporting mobile ways of working

• Physical environments find their extension in the non-physical environments of the digital world

• In combination, the physical and the non-physical work environments lead to new hybrid learning and work spaces and environments

“We will gravitate to settings that offer particular cultural, scenic and climatic attractions… Sometimes we will network to avoid going places. But sometimes, we will go places to network”

VIRTUAL SPACE convenientefficient

PHYSICAL SPACE meaningful symbolic…one type

of space does not

replace the other

Bill Mitchell, e-topia

Virtual & physical space are complementary

WHAT EVER THE INTERFACE WE ARE ALWAYS PHYSICALLY LOCATED SOMEWHERE

InQbate, University of Sussex, UK

Active Learning Classroom, University of Minnesota, USA

Spaces to support blended learning

• Flat floor learning spaces with ability to reconfigure furniture easily to support multiple pedagogies

• Increased space per student to allow easy reconfiguration & group working

• Increased use of technology

• Improved quality of environment:

• A rich visual environment,

• High quality, flexible furniture

• Access to natural light

• Connection to the outside

• Spatial innovation combined with timetable and technology innovation and faculty skills development

Impact of flexible learning on space requirements

Source: DEGW

University of Melbourne Learning LabMelbourne, Australia

IED blended learning classroomKarachi, Pakistan

SA1 Waterfront Innovation Quarter

University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea

Informal learning spaces

UWTSD Virtual Learning Environment

UWTSD Library Management Systems

Learning Commons

‘On-campus’ ‘Off-campus’Physical/

Digital Resources

Expertise

StudySettings

UWTSD LIBRARIES

UWTSD Library ‘offer’

“The library of the future is a little bit like an airport for books or a convention centre for the meeting of minds ….so a place like an old fashioned Italian piazza where one can sit and sip your coffee and stroll leisurely or act as a marketplace, exchanging and trading information and knowledge.

This is happening at the same time in a physical space as well as in a virtual space and the interface between the physical and the virtual space is going to be crucial for our envisioning of the library of the future.”Massimo Riva, 2012, Professor of Italian Studies Director of the Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown University

© Harrison and Hutton 2014

Creation of learning-centred communities

Schools Higher Education

Culture/Leisure/Living

WorkplaceEarly Childhood Centres

Primary Schools

SecondarySchools

Public Libraries

6th Form Colleges

Joint use libraries Corporate

Training Centres

Innovation Centres

Executive Education

Universities

R&D facilities

Professional Education Institutions

Library Business & IP Centres

Art Galleries Museums Libraries

Colleges

Teaching Hospitals

Performance spaces

Workplace based learning

The virtual learning environment

Academic RetirementCommunities

Life long learning

The future learning experience

• Layered experience

• Creation of flexible activity zones to support learning, living and working

• Users choosing appropriate settings and technology for the tasks they want to achieve

• Space and experience changing over the course of the day: changing to reflect different types of users at different times of the day

• Blending of physical and virtual learning and research spaces

• Blurring of learning with working, living and leisure

• Creation of learning-centred communities

Successful digital learning spaces

Space Efficient, appropriate size, technology infrastructure

+Place Well-designed, meaningful space+Process Learning and teaching approach including technology use+ Experience Total student experience before, during and after the learning event

aharrisonuk@hotmail.com

Thank you.

Donna Lanclos

Donna Lanclos

The power of digital for changeDr Paul FeldmanProfessor David MaguireProfessor Andrew HarrisonDonna Lanclos