About the Course

Everything about the course: Description, Outcomes, Readings, Presenters

The course is designed for the Digital Scholar of the future, i.e. PhD students and graduates from all disciplines. Participants want to further develop their skills on how to drive project websites, how to use social media, how to visualize research outcomes or learning analytics, how to cope with fast moving new trends in multimedia technology for research and teaching, how to develop multimedia learning materials, and much more!

Participants should have a genuine interest in modern multimedia technologies and their application in research and education. Some basic experience with the use and/or production of multimedia materials or affinity with social media might be helpful in the practical sessions.

Course description:

The whole workshop will be immersed in the idea of cumulative knowledge building and representation through multimedia communication. The course will concentrate around the following themes:

• understanding the digital scholar concept,
• making your research felt on the web,
• creating interactive multimedia materials,
• coping with new multimedia technology in research and teaching.

The course will include presentations of theoretical evidence-based concepts, models and frameworks, good practices, inspiring examples, practical illustrations, and interesting (open) resources, combined with some hands-on exercises. Together with the instructors participants will engage in a co-creation process of producing own multimedia materials. During the course participants will start to build their own digital scholarly presence on the web.

Course Outcomes:

• After completion of the course, the participants will:
• Be able to represent and further their own, as well as research teams’ research projects on the web
• Better understand cumulative knowledge building and representation as a framework to integrate research and teaching
• Be aware of the huge potential of emerging and multimedia technologies for research and teaching
• Be able to use multimedia and social media in research and teaching
• Have improved skills in the production of multimedia materials and the application of social media and emerging technologies

Core readings

• Teaching in a Digital Age, by Tony Bates
• The Digital Scholar by Martin Weller 
• Academics’ online presence. A four-step guide to taking control of your visibility, by Sarah Goodier & Laura Czerniewicz 
• Research: how do you get it out there? by Lisa de Haardt & Hans van de Water

Interesting readings

• Digital Selves, Digital Scholars: Theorising Academic Identity In Online Spaces, by, Katia Hildebrandt & Alec Couros
• Educause: From Written to Digital  - The new literacy  

Presenters' Bios

 Prof Wim Van Petegem holds an MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ghent (Belgium) and one in Biomedical Engineering from the KU Leuven (Belgium). He got his PhD in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven in 1993. His current research interests are in the field of multimedia production, new educational technology, networked e-learning, virtual mobility, lifelong learning, open and  distance learning, knowledge transfer, innovative entrepreneurship and science communication. He and his team are involved as contractor, partner, coordinator, expert, or evaluator in many implementation and development projects mostly financed by the European Commission (DG Education and Culture). He is also heavily engaged in development cooperation with the South, and volunteer board member of several non-profit organizations.

Dr JP Bosman is currently Head of the Centre for Learning Technologies at Stellenbosch University . He trained in the field of Theology, obtaining a Doctorate in Old Testament and then taught at the Faculty of Theology, SU before becoming involved in academic development work in 2004-2006 as a Senior Adviser e-Learning in the Centre for Teaching and Learning. In 2006-2008 he worked in the private sector as part of a start-up educational software company, Leaf Educational Designs. In 2008 he returned to higher education and his previous position as Senior Adviser e-Learning. Since 2013 he is the Head of the Centre for Learning Technologies, a Centre of SU that strives to inspire the meaningful use of technologies for learning.