About the Exeter Cascade ProjectPresenters | Date

The context

Exeter a research-intensive university specialising in research-led teaching

History of successful initiatives led by students as change agents

High-achieving staff and students who may prefer 'traditional' research and teaching environments

New campus developments including Forum building with innovative teaching spaces

Opportunities to work with new programmes e.g. interdisciplinary Visual Culture

The programme

JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme 2011-13

Funding for 12 institutional projects

– different aspects of digital capability

– different strategic approaches

Partnership with national professional bodies:

– Exeter working closely with Vitae, ALDinHE and the SW Doctoral Training Centre

Projects sharing ideas and outcomes in cluster groups

– Exeter working with the Universities of Bath, Readingand Oxford Brookes

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

Critical values

Digital scholarshipKnowledge practices that support learning, teaching and research,

focusing on how knowledge is generated, grown, shared, critiqued and communicated in the discipline

CollaborationActivities designed and led by staff and PGRs, following consultation

about the meaning of digital literacy in the context of different disciplines and professions

Students as change agentsPostgraduate students are key agents of change in this area, as

early-career researchers, digital natives, and emerging teachers.

Activities

Baseliningthe situation as is, and priorities for change

Developing peopleworking with 8-10 postgraduate researchers to develop their

digital capability and local influence

Developing the curriculumworking in at least 15 taught programmes to embed authentic,

research-rich activities that enhance digital scholarship

Developing know-howbuilding online resources, modules and sessions, a digital literacy

framework, and new capabilities among professional services

Digital Literacies framework

Digital Literacies framework

Digital Literacies framework

Researcher Development

Find out more

twitter: exetercascade

http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/cascade/blog/

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/Cascade.aspx

cascade@exeter.ac.uk

H.Beetham@exeter.ac.uk