D4 Strategic Project:Developing Staff Digital Literacies.Internal Scoping Report

This report is the second stage of the 2014-2015 TALI Strategic Project exploring Developing Staff Digital Literacies. The first stage was the external scoping report which identified a range of approaches taken by other HEIs alongside guidance from sector bodies such as Jisc and the HEA. This report focusses on the University of Huddersfield context by outlining and critically analysing how the issue has developed at the University. The report is discussing the methodology, findings, conclusions and recommendations. The finding section starts by discussion of the local context at University of Huddersfield then is structured around same sections as were used in the external scoping report. The categories are curriculum design, academic champions, centralised staff development courses, localised staff development courses, accredited courses, informal approaches, on-demand resources, specific events, student champions and institutional strategies. Relevant past projects that have a digital literacy focus, are then identified. This has enabled comparison between the rest of the sector and the provision at University of Huddersfield and has enabled us to identify strengths and omissions. The report concludes by making recommendations, and in particular identifies how the D4 project might develop. This next stage of the project involves undertaking a intervention with colleagues who have not traditionally engaged in digital practices, to help them to developing their digital capability

D4 Strategic Project:Developing Staff Digital Literacies.External Scoping Report

This is the first stage of a TALI Strategic Project on Academic Staff Digital Literacies. The report scopes the grey and peer reviewed literature and provides a landscape review of some of the major developments focussing particularly on approaches supported by the major sector bodies (JISC, HEA and ALT). The report comes to the following conclusions: • The term digital capability appears to have growing use by sector bodies (e.g. Jisc and UCISA) replacing digital literacy and digital fluency. We support this because it may be more acceptable to academic staff because it may appear less pejorative. In addition it should be noted that both terms are highly temporally contingent in this is a fast moving area. • Staff digital literacies are deeply embedded in their local discipline context. • Whilst there are many projects that focus on students’ digital literacy the literature on staff is much less prevalent. • Of the few projects that focus on staff digital literacies these tend to lack any empirical base in relation to efficacy or impact. • Digitally confident practitioners display a range of attributes related to confidence, willingness to explore, resilience to failure and that it is these attributes that characterise them rather than their technical skills. • Approaches to achieving sustained change in relation to development of digital confident practitioners are more likely to be achieved by focussing on ‘hearts and minds’ where staff have agency and ownership, and feel empowered to make changes rather than audits or appraisals. • A particular ‘hearts and mind’ approach that has had some use across several HEIs is the course redesign model called ‘Carpe Deum’ (Salmon & Wright 2014). • In addition Appreciative Inquiry as a model for supporting change processes which has been advocated by Jisc (Gray and Ferrell nd)

La scène spectaculaire de Toronto

Dans cet article, l’auteur argumente que la promotion et la commercialisation des attraits culturels jouent un rôle vital dans la stratégie d’ensemble d’une ville qui cherche à se donner une image de marque et qui rivalise avec d’autres villes pour une part du marché de l’industrie touristique dans le contexte global. Plus précisément, cet article s’intéresse à la relation cruciale du spectacle à grand déploiement et de la mise en scène de la ville à travers le rôle joué par le théâtre commercial dans la création de l’image de marque de Toronto comme destination touristique. Cette étude de cas contribue à la compréhension critique du rapport entre les économies locales et les pratiques culturelles, qui produit l’identité de la ville nécessaire non seulement à la viabilité de son industrie touristique, mais également à la construction d’une symbolique forte dans le cadre des exigences du contexte économique du xxie siècle.In this paper, the author argues that the promotion and commercialization of cultural attractions play a vital role in the overall plan of a city that is striving to make its mark and rival other cities for a share of the tourist trade within the global context. In particular, this paper addresses the crucial interrelationship of large-scale spectacles and the city’s setting through the role played by the commercial theatre in putting Toronto on the map as a tourist destination. This case study contributes to the critical understanding of the connection between local economies and cultural practices which not only create the city’s identity that allows the flourishing of its tourist trade, but also the construction of a strong symbolic element – an essential requirement in the economic context of the 21st century.En este artículo, el autor argumenta que la promoción y la comercialización de las atracciones culturales desempeñan un papel vital en la estrategia global de una ciudad que pretende darse una imagen de marca y que rivaliza con otras ciudades por una parte del mercado de la industria turística en el contexto global. Más concretamente, este artículo se interesa en la interrelación crucial del espectáculo a gran despliegue y de la puesta en escena de la ciudad a través del papel desempeñado por el teatro comercial en la creación de la imagen de marca de Toronto como destino turístico. Este estudio de caso contribuye a la comprensión crítica de la relación entre las economías locales y las prácticas culturales que produce no sólo la identidad de la ciudad necesaria a la viabilidad de su industria turística, sino también en la construcción de un simbolismo fuerte en el marco de las exigencias del contexto económico del siglo XXI