Slide presentation, the DIAL project Digital Integration into Arts Learning University of the Arts London DIAL Project manager Chris Follows ARLIS Annual Conference 2012 29 June Digital technology can enable us to capture, preserve, share, collaborate on, and publish our activities. It can simplify, speed up and streamline processes, and in a wide variety of ways, we can expect it to shape many of our social and professional activities in years to come. For these reasons, ensuring full participation in digital life for university staff and students is necessary, but also challenging. With so many different areas of digital activity, and so much variety in levels of confidence and existing skills, how can a university ensure staff and students have the appropriate skills for digital engagement? UAL’s Digital Integration into Arts Learning (DIAL) project, partially funded by JISC, is a two year project of which 8 months have been completed. It aims to improve graduate employability and develop confidence and capability in the adoption and integration of digitally enhanced learning for staff and students. The project method is to identify mutually supportive communities of staff and students within the larger university community (based on courses, disciplines or other naturally occurring communities) who identify goals for improving their collective digital literacies over a six month period, initially with significant support from the project team. Over the project life-time, processes, resources and toolkits are being developed so the communities can be increasingly autonomous in their development programmes. Within the community, individual and collective aims and anxieties will be identified, along with current skills and experience. Community members will collaborate to increase the overall digital literacy of the whole community.

1. The DIAL project
Digital Integration into Arts Learning
University of the Arts London
DIAL Project manager Chris Follows
ARLIS Annual Conference 2012
29 June

2. Programme & project details
• JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme is funding 12 projects
over 2 years to promote the development of coherent, inclusive
and holistic institutional strategies and organisational approaches
for developing digital literacies for all staff and students in UK
further and higher education.
• Projects are working across the following stakeholder groupings in
their plans for developing digital literacies: students, academic
staff, research staff, librarians and learning resources and support
staff, administrators and managers, support staff, technical staff
and estates staff.
• DIAL is a two year, partially JISC funded (100k) digital literacies
projects
• DIAL Project start date: Nov 2011 - completion date: Nov 2013

3. DIAL blog http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

4. DIAL aims to:
Culture change: Develop confidence
and capability in the adoption and
integration of digitally enhanced
learning for staff and students
Improve graduate employability

5. The ‘digital baseline’ blogs will record all aspects of digital life, including
learning & teaching, college, department, course & individual perspectives
http://ualdigitalbaseline.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

6. Surveys UAL
Skills …………… Online practice

7. Surveys (commercial online practice)
Your Digital World - please tell us more!

8. DIAL Objectives http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/02/10/objectives/
Institutional:
• Embed DIAL networks and digital literacies
developments into UAL web environment,
policies and practices.
• Define, debate and test impact of new
institutional terms, definitions and policies
including: flexible learning, digital citizenship,
digital literacy/capability and open education.

9. DIAL Objectives http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/02/10/objectives/
Staff:
• Improved flexible approaches to CPD & PPD
staff development
• Support the implementation of digitally
enhanced learning & practice

10. DIAL Objectives http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2012/02/10/objectives/
Students
• Improved graduate employability by
enhancing presentation skills and professional
online identities.

11. DIAL project or programme?
The DIAL project was always going to be bigger than
a project and by acknowledging this and looking at
DIAL as a potential UAL programme we can better
build a case for developing a UAL wide digital
strategy and sustainability plans to develop and
maintain progressive digital practice at UAL.
DIAL will run as a pilot programme and do its best
to acknowledge as wide a spectrum of issues as
possible although it cannot address everything.

12. DIAL project groups
Identify mutually supportive communities of staff and
students
Identify goals for improving their collective digital literacies
So the communities can be increasingly autonomous in
their development programmes.
Within the community, individual and collective aims and
anxieties will be identified, along with current skills and
experience.
collaborate to increase the overall digital literacy of the
whole community.

13. DIAL groups will include the combined experience levels of staff & students and
acknowledge that each DIAL participant may be a novice and expert at the same
time in these new digital domains
Engage and support maximum stakeholder participation and communication between DIAL project
communities of practice, including open debate/forum (live & online), cross college/alumni/industry
interaction, course/staff/student level case studies, events, workshops and online resources.

14. process.arts http://process.arts.ac.uk/

15. DIAL Project Groups

16. DIAL Project Groups

17. DIAL Project Groups

18. Early thoughts and common features from DIAL
evaluation of pilot projects:
• The DIAL projects provide opportunity for personal
reflections on personal roles and emerge from long-
standing challenges people want to tackle, and perhaps up
to now have not had the time or resources to attend to
them.
• Teachers’ fear of learning in public (Online reflective
practice)
• Dealing with the discomfort of making curricular resources
public. (Open educational resources)
• Anxieties relating to presenting oneself in video and online
(Professional identity)

19. "it's not the winning but the taking
part that counts”
Founder of the Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin

20. Thank you