The DIAL Project

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The DIAL Project

• Examples of groups
• Information Literacies
• Online Reflective Practice
• Presentation Skills
• Open Education

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Information Literacies

• Library Services staff
• '23 Things' --- 'unlimited things'
• Linear --- menu approach
• SCONUL 7 pillars (Identify, Scope, Plan, Gather,
  Evaluate, Manage, Present)
• Create open resource without reinventing wheel

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Online Reflective Practice (ORP)

• Students staff learning openly
  collaboratively
• Aims
• Familiarity with tools for online reflection and
  documentation of process
• Appreciation of benefits challenges of open
  (online) reflection
• Experience in online collaborative reflection
• Skills in building personal reflective learning
  networks
• Achievements to date
• All PG Cert participants completed online
  reflective tasks from October 2011 to April 2012,
  achieving outcomes 1-3 with some beginning to
  work towards outcome 4
• Significant proportion of participants have
  continued to use their blog
• Modest number of participants incorporated ORP
  into their courses over the academic year
• Significant number of participants intending to
  introduce ORP into their courses next year
• All activities (plus examples of participants
  posts) published under a CC 3.0 license

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Online Reflective Practice (ORP)

• Evaluation of participation participant
  experience
• Compulsory self and peer assessment
• Voluntary feedback surveys (anonymous and open)
• Compulsory face-to-face workshop
• Voluntary focus group
• Next Steps
• Develop course design for 2012-13, emphasising
  regularity of activity completion
• Use good examples of collaborative reflective
  practice in the induction stage
• Introduce an e-portfolio tool as an alternative
  to a blog tool for more personal reflective work
• Goals
• Make collective learning of ORP group accessible
  to a wider pool of staff and students
• E.g.(output) Multimedia resources presenting
  benefits of and strategies for ORP as a learner,
  and as a teacher.
• E.g. (usage) Introduction to Study in Higher
  Education (common unit for Year 1 students), and
  across the Academic Practice Provision.