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Academic Development for the Digital University
The 11th SEDA Summer School for Academic Developers
July 9th – 11th 2012
Cumberland Lodge
Facilitators:
Participants:
This SEDA Summer School is intended for colleagues, whether new or
experienced in academic development, who see as part of their role helping their
institution to increase and enhance the appropriate use of digital technologies.
The Summer School is not primarily about the technologies themselves. Rather
it is about the good and critical uses of digital technologies in academic
development to support the increasingly digital University.
Participants may work in academic development or learning technology units; as
learning and teaching or learning technology coordinators in Faculties or
Schools; as liaison between academic development and learning technology; or
in other settings and roles where they take some responsibility for helping to
enhance academic practice.
Framed by the values, core development outcomes and specialist outcomes of
the SEDA Professional Development Framework (SEDA-PDF) ’Staff and
Educational Development’ award, described at the end of this programme, the
Summer School will help participants to:

Analyse the opportunities and challenges of their current, and perhaps
also their next, role(s) in academic development;
 Develop both conceptual and practical approaches to their own work; and
 Share and test ideas and practices from other developers
All with continuing reference to the contribution of digital technologies to the
University and to their own work.
Methods:
The Summer School involves seminars, workshops, small group and private
study, action learning, tutorials and mentoring with experienced academic
developers and users of digital technologies in learning and academic
development. Participants will be encouraged to work on an academic
development project they have brought with them. A brief for this project will be
circulated well ahead of time. This project can be a topic, opportunity or problem
that is of relevance and importance to each participant at the time.
There will be time to think!
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Programme:
Day 1
1130-1200 Arrive and register, and receive Kahn, P. and D. Baume, Eds.
(2003). A Guide to Staff and Educational Development. The Staff
and Educational Development Series. London, Kogan Page and
other publications and sources on academic development for and in
the digital University
1200-1300 Introductions: to each other and their projects, the facilitators, the
programme and Cumberland Lodge.
Start to set up action learning sets, based on each participant’s
project, topic, opportunity or problem that they want to work on
during the Summer School; what they want to get out of the
Summer School
1300-1400
Lunch
1400-1515
What do I try to achieve in my work as a developer in the digital
University, and how will I know and show that I have achieved it? A
workshop on goal-setting and evaluation in academic development.
1515-1545 Briefing on action learning and finalise action learning sets
1545-1615 Tea
1615-1745 Action learning sets facilitated by Summer School staff
1915-2030
Dinner
2045-2115 JISC speaker on current and planned programmes on digital
technologies in higher education
Day 2
0915-1045 Higher education and academic development as socially-mediated
action – the roles of digital technologies. A workshop exploring, with
reference to what is known about what works in teaching and
learning and academic development, how the new technologies can
make both student learning and academic development more active
and more collaborative social processes
1045-1130 Action learning sets facilitated by Summer School staff (to include
coffee)
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1130-1245 Facilitation in Academic Development in the digital University.
Workshop, to include giving, taking and using feedback; mentoring
and coaching; group process; and self- and peer-support in our
work as developers
1245-1300 Mid-course reflection. Planning how to make the best use of the rest
of the Summer School.
1300-1400
Lunch
1400-1515 Policy and Strategy for academic development for the digital
University. Workshop: How can academic developers work with, and
also help to shape, policy and strategy to ensure the best possible
student learning, making appropriate uses of digital technologies?
1515-1545
Tea
1545-1700 Beyond digital literacy: Workshop on developing digitally fluency in
our students, colleagues and Universities, using results from the
JISC Development Digital Literacies Programme
1700-1830
Action learning sets facilitated by Summer School staff
1915-2030
Dinner
2045-2115
JISC speaker on integrating and applying knowledge about
enhancing academic development and teaching and learning
through the use of digital technologies
Day 3
0915-1000 Show, tell and explore – participants show colleagues some uses
they have been making of digital technologies in their work
1000-1100 Bridging the other digital divide: Workshop on how academic
developers and learning technologists can work more productively
together at all levels from practice to policy and strategy
1100-1130 Coffee
1130-1230 Participants reporting back on progress and plans for the next
stages of their projects
1230-1300 Evaluation of the Summer School and planning further development
for the developers for the digital University
1300
Lunch and close
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The SEDA-PDF ‘Staff and Educational Development’ Award, to lead to Fellowship
of SEDA (FSEDA)
A Values
Award recipients will have shown how their work is informed by each of the
SEDA Values, namely commitments to:
1. An understanding of how people learn
2. Scholarship, professionalism and ethical practice
3. Working in and developing learning communities
4. Working effectively with diversity and promoting inclusivity
5. Continuing reflection on professional practice
6. Developing people and processes
B Core Development Outcomes
Award recipients will demonstrate how they have, within their particular
context(s):
1. Identified their own professional development goals, directions and/or
priorities
2. Planned for their initial and/or continuing professional development
3. Undertaken appropriate development activities
4. Reviewed their development and practice, and the relations between them.
C
Specialist outcomes
Additionally, again within their organisational and strategic contexts, award
recipients will demonstrate how they have:
5. Identified goals for academic development processes and activities
6. Planned and led academic development processes and activities towards
achievement of these goals
7. Facilitated and led processes to achieve the agreed goals
8. Monitored and evaluated the effectiveness and the acceptability of the
development processes and activities
9. Identified any appropriate follow-up development process or activity
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