Digital Delivery in the school of media and communication

Brief description of session and activities

In the school of media and communication we have changed our digital delivery model to encourage a higher level of digital creative thinking. We have developed a new delivery model because of student feedback - generally saying they did not feel the digital delivery in the school was set at the right level, so we now have created an elective digital delivery that are split into 3 levels and are open to any student from any course. The three levels are:

• Level 1 - Learning the basics of a piece of software led by technicians.
• Level 2 - Is creative and brief led in an often experiential environment. It is delivered by academics and technicians. Level 2 is about planting seeds of ideas and showing how the digital skills fits into the design process rather than being the design process itself - this looks at areas such as making twitter physical using arduino, printing curation, 3d printing and interactive fashion images. This is designed to feed back into the students current learning and they should be able to take back their learning to their own course led projects.
• Level 3 - Research and Development - led by staff but open to all students with the aim to redefine and push the existing boundaries of digital technology within our own subject specialism. We have been working with LCC as a Communities of Practice to develop this.

Each delivery is supported by surgery sessions where staff are on hand to support any questions that may arise following the sessions.

Will students be involved in the session? If so how?

NA

What will participants take away from the session?

The lightning talk aims to encourage a reassessment of the most effective methods for digital delivery but also how to encourage students to challenge and redefine their subject specialism through digital media.