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The transposition to digital: Creative education in online spaces

Date
03.07.20
Times
10:00 AM
-
01:15 PM
Speaker
Abid Qayum,Alex Hirst Hoxby,David White Head of Digital Learning UAL,Derek Jones Distance Design Education,Education & Skills Creative Industries Federation,Jack Tindale Manager - Design
Organiser
University of the Arts London & CHEAD

A co-organised event with

This pop-up, pop-in mini ‘converence’ (a conference by conversation) discussing innovation in Designing for Digital Delivery took place on Friday 3rd July 2020. Developed as a digital drop-in webinar room, delegates dropped in for a series of half hour ‘windows’ over half a day covering series of themed conversations designed to stimulate discussion timed to start and end every half an hour including:

  • Adapting the best digital experience for ADM disciplines: The digital playbook

  •  The virtual studio: Creative constraints or opportunity to innovate?

  • Designing socially distanced spaces, studios and classrooms

  • Creating virtual community cohesion: Overcoming digital anxiety

  • When home is not a learning environment for all

  • Creative industries digital skills needs: I’ll tell you what we want, what we really really want!


 Please find resources and links in the topic related tabs below taken directly from the 'chat' box during the event.

If you would like to receive a link to view the recorded event, available only to CHEAD members, please contact: anna@localhost

Online teaching resource: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/digital-learning/teaching-online
'Students like the flexibility': why online universities are here to stay: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/may/27/students-like-the-flexibility-why-online-universities-are-here-to-stay
Distance Design Education blog: https://distancedesigneducation.com/
Draft version of the Creating Distance Design Education Courses guide: https://distancedesigneducation.com/creating-distance-design-courses/
Guide for Creating Distance Design Courses: https://distancedesigneducation.com/creating-distance-design-courses/
Transformation to digital: Only 1 in 10 say their institution is currently engaged in digital transformation, but most are exploring Dx or preparing a Dx strategy: https://library.educause.edu/resources/2020/6/driving-digital-transformation-in-higher-education
Dave White blog post: Digital Amplification: http://daveowhite.com/digiamp/
Dave White blog post: The Lecture Paradox: http://daveowhite.com/the-lecture-paradox/
Learning from lockdown: harnessing tech to improve the student experience: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2020/06/22/learning-from-lockdown-harnessing-tech-to-improve-the-student-experience/
The 360* Immersive Fishbowl Webinar Design: https://abasiel.wordpress.com/elearning-r-d/
70:20:10 Webinar Design: abasiel.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/702010-webinar-design


Online communities:
https://theonline.town/
discord.com
https://www.sococo.com/


Mural.com
miro.com
https://spatial.io/#


UAL Creative Attributes Framework: https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/careers-and-employability/creative-attributes-framework

Link to CHEAD infographic and survey: https://chead.ac.uk/storage/members-covid-19-impact-survey-results/
WonkHE Article Let’s lose the deficit language about online education: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/lets-lose-the-deficit-language-about-online-education
https://gladhe.com/covid19
http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2020/06/22/redesign-for-online-3-easy-steps-to-questioning-everything-you-do-as-an-educator/
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/07/12/7-guidelines-effective-teaching-online
https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-14-simple-tips-for-better-online-teaching-133573
Support/care:
https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/pedagogy-of-care-covid-19-edition/

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/03/17/10-strategies-support-students-and-help-them-learn-during-coronavirus-crisis
Reflections on fashion graduates’ responses to producing a final collection in lockdown, and the impact of lockdown on the sustainability of the fashion industry:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/13/the-waste-and-excess-is-more-visible-how-coronavirus-is-shaking-up-fashion
Crowd sourced case studies of knowledge exchange in arts research
https://www.theculturecapitalexchange.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Knowledge-Sharing-and-Exchange-in-a-Pandemic.pdf


https://playbook.cio.gov/#plays_index_anchor


Recognition of risk and failure is part of the UAL PROCESS assessment criteria: https://www.arts.ac.uk/students/stories/new-assessment-criteria3
Playful Learning Association: http://pla.playthinklearn.net/index.php/2019/07/20/home/


The Digital Creative Attributes Framework: Shared language around valuable digital practices at UAL: https://dcaf.myblog.arts.ac.uk/


Textiles case study: Using kitchen food waste for a textiles project: https://tle.myblog.arts.ac.uk/taking-studio-practices-online-case-study-2/


Maha Bali – Associate Professor of Practice – American University in Cairo (Egypt) talks about 3rd spaces of learning in her presentation (5): https://inclusivelearningdesign.com/webinars/

ETHO - European Technical Heads Organisation: https://www.aalto.fi/en/school-of-arts-design-and-architecture/etho-2019
COVID-19 Lockdown and the Creative Arts Disciplines: When the hitherto ‘reasonable’ becomes an unrealistic ask: https://chead.ac.uk/storage/covid-19-lockdown-and-the-creative-arts-disciplines-when-the-hitherto-reasonable-becomes-an-unrealistic-ask/


Gallery Oldham - online life drawing sessions: https://galleryoldham.org.uk/event/life-drawing-with-gallery-oldham-digital-drawing/

www.hoxby.com
Hoxby #RemoteAgainstCoronavirus Five Rules for Leading Remote Teams
Hoxby #RemoteAgainstCoronavirus It's Time to Think about Communities


Sticky Curriculum
Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education, Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315415130
The Sticky Curriculum in the Art School: https://vimeo.com/287081420


Mama is An Academic Blog: https://mamaisanacademic.wordpress.com/blog/


Azra Naseem on Inclusive learning design, her presentation starts at 38 minutes: Old devices/poor internet: now what? https://inclusivelearningdesign.com/webinars/


Compassionate pedagogy:Vikki Hill with Dr Theo Gilbert: https://tle.myblog.arts.ac.uk/compassion-in-higher-education-vikki-hill-with-dr-theo-gilbert/


Key points regarding supporting students wellbeing in a 6' video (video no 3): https://inclusivelearningdesign.com/videos/


An Affinity for Asynchronous Learning by Maha Bali / مها با ل , Bard Meier - thoughts about different modes of delivery: https://hybridpedagogy.org/affinity-asynchronous-learning/


Creative COVID-19 blog piece: http://www.creativehecovid.org/blog/creative-higher-education-and-the-home-learning-environment


https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/universities-are-failing-their-students-during-coronavirus-outbreak 


How to study at home during coronavirus – by online students and tutors: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/mar/26/how-to-study-at-home-during-coronavirus-by-online-students-and-tutors
Student health and well-being resources: University of Edinburgh has creating a dedicated health and wellbeing hub for students: https://www.ed.ac.uk/students/health-wellbeing/health-and-wellbeing-centre @UoEdWellbeing

Growing the UK's creative Industries: https://www.creativeindustriesfederation.com/sites/default/files/2018-12/Creative%20Industries%20Federation%20-%20Growing%20the%20UK's%20Creative%20Industries.pdf
Impact of COVID-19 on our sector by Matthew Young, Design Council: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/design-can-help-lead-britain-s-bounce-back-covid-19-economic-threat-huge
The Art in the Artificial: AI and the creative industries: John Davies, NESTA: https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/art-artificial/ & https://www.pec.ac.uk/assets/publications/PEC-and-Nesta-research-report-The-art-in-the-artificial.pdf


Too Fast to Think by Chris Lewis: https://www.teamlewis.com/uk/our-work/too-fast-to-think/

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