A presentation from the STEM Annual Conference 2014.
The Digital Literacy in the Disciplines programme by the Higher Education Academy has funded a range of projects to create and develop online interactive learning resources by students. Nine projects have been funded across the HEA discipline clusters over 2013-2014 to use the Open Source Xerte Learning Object toolkit platform developed by the University of Nottingham to teach students how to create 'e-learning' for their discipline. This is also deliverable on mobile devices using HTML5.
Use of a common production platform offers the opportunity to compare approaches and engage students in a wide range of digital literacies to discover create evaluate manage and collaborate effectively. This presentation will disseminate how staff have taught STEM students to improve their 'digital literacy' and employability by creating interactive content with a wide range of digital sources and how STEM disciplines can benefit from building automatic networks of student produced content. Two of these projects are also focussed on employability including STEM topics. Institutions involved include College-based HE providers.
Students usually work on the production of an assessed oral presentation which has been a traditional low-tech activity. This new approach can transform and expand an existing assessment tasks by enabling students to be more creative and share more resources into their discipline. The Academic challenges barriers benefits and potential solutions will be discussed.
