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Developing Digital Competencies: How to Build a Digital Competencies Program
Where: The Inn at Villanova University
601 County Line Road
Radnor PA 19087
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When: Wednesday, December 4, 2019
9:00am - 3:00pm
Note: Registration starts at 7:30am
Workshop Organizer: Christine Boyland of Bryn Mawr College
Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member & Non Member - $145
The registration fee includes am break and lunch.
Event Overview
In today’s world, digital competence is essential in order to learn, teach, work, and participate in society. It starts at a young age and becomes even more critical for faculty, staff, and students in colleges to be able to learn and adapt to digital skills for communication, data management, data analysis and presentations, and design.
The course will use Bryn Mawr’s Digital Competencies Program as a model. The model focuses on a collection of digital skills, categorized into five main focus areas: Digital Survival Skills, Digital Communications, Data Management & Preservation, Data Analysis & Presentation, and Critical Making, Design & Development.
During the session, participants will begin by learning about the elements and assessing which might work for their university initiatives and which aren’t relevant to their campus’s strategic plans, resources, and culture. The second part of the session will focus on Identifying stakeholders and likely partners and outlining possible outreach and campus integration opportunities, including specific types of student engagement activities.
Who should attend
This workshop is intended for anyone seeking to create a digital competencies program on their campus, as well as faculty and staff responsible for administering programming in support of this kind of initiative.
Session Outcomes:
Upon completion of the workshop, participants will have three main components to build their own Digital Competencies Program:
- A list of key elements for their digital competencies framework that align with institutional strategic plans and resources.
- A list of potential stakeholders and project partners.
- An outline of outreach and campus integration opportunities to bolster buy-in and expedite implementation.
Registration Cancellation Policy:
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7:30am - 9:00am Coffee & Registration
9:00am - 10:15am Modeling Bryn Mawr's Digital Competencies Program:
Speakers:
Christine Boyland, Senior Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Jessica Hollinger, Associate Director of Experiential Education, Bryn Mawr
Victoria Karasic, Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Megan Pongratz, Associate Director, Career Development and Outcomes Assessment, Bryn Mawr
Jennifer Spohrer, Director of Educational Technology Services, Bryn Mawr
Speakers from Bryn Mawr’s Educational Technology Services Team and the Career and Civic Engagement Center will present the evolution of the College’s Digital Competencies Program.
10:15am - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 12:00pm Pair-Share Exercise
Speakers/Facilitators:
Jennifer Spohrer, Director of Educational Technology Services, Bryn Mawr
Christine Boyland, Senior Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Victoria Karasic, Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Maria Ocando Finol, Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Participants will critique Bryn Mawr’s Framework relative to the participants’ own institutional needs and values.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Design Thinking Activity
Speakers/Facilitators:
Jennifer Spohrer, Director of Educational Technology Services, Bryn Mawr
Christine Boyland, Senior Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Victoria Karasic, Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Maria Ocando Finol, Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Activity to identify relevant institutional strategic goals, internal resources, stakeholders and partners, etc. that may determine the desired elements of a digital competencies initiative at the participant’s institution.
2:00pm - 2:50pm Interactive Activity
Speakers/Facilitators:
Jennifer Spohrer, Director of Educational Technology Services, Bryn Mawr
Christine Boyland, Senior Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Victoria Karasic, Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
Maria Ocando Finol, Educational Technology Specialist, Bryn Mawr
2:50pm - 3:00pm Wrap-up/End
Christine Boyland
Christine Boyland came to Bryn Mawr in 2006, as the Director of the Language Learning Center. Concurrent with her employment at the College, she served as a Technology Fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), conducting in-person and web-based workshops on a variety of technology and pedagogy topics to a national audience. Before coming to Bryn Mawr, Christine taught at Yale University, Trinity College, and the College of William and Mary, and she was an Instructional Designer at St. Anselm College.
Jessica Hollinger
Jessica Hollinger has worked at Bryn Mawr College for 10 years. In her current role as the Associate Director of Experiential Education, Jessica oversees a catalog of 15-20 intensives—3-5-full-day programs—that provide students with opportunities to explore career paths, develop industry-specific professional readiness skills, and network with industry professionals. Jessica also runs the Career and Civic Engagement Center’s Leadership Learning Laboratory, which involves running a simulated workday for students and collecting feedback from upwards of 15 assessors—College alumni/ae, staff, and faculty—for each of the student participants.
Victoria Karasic
Vickie Karasic is an academic librarian who specializes in educational technology, digital and information literacy, and learning spaces. As an Educational Technology Specialist at Bryn Mawr College, she assists faculty, students, and other members of the College community to incorporate technology meaningfully into teaching, research, and learning. Her research interests include the use of digital media and technology in language learning, active learning methods, and learning spaces in academic libraries.
Maria Ocando Finol
Maria Ocando Finol is joining Bryn Mawr College as an Educational Technology Specialist, after receiving her Phd in Spanish from Arizona State University. As part of Bryn Mawr College’s Library of Information Technology Services, she will focus on helping faculty and students include technology into their academic work in meaningful ways. With a background in applied linguistics, Maria’s research interests include developing intercultural competence through technology, using film for pedagogical purposes, and the roles of teachers in tech-mediated classrooms. Before coming to Bryn Mawr College, Maria was a Connected Academics research fellow at ASU, where she developed professionalization initiatives for Humanities doctoral students. She was also the founding president for CALL Club at ASU, a graduate student-led organization focusing on computer-assisted language learning, and the lead organizer of AZCALL 2018.
Megan Pongratz
Megan Pongratz joined the Leadership, Innovation, and Liberal Arts Center (LILAC) in 2015 as Associate Director for Career and Professional Development. In her role, Megan provides career counseling to students, develops career-related programming, builds relationships across campus and supervises the Career Peers. Megan has over eight years of experience working in higher education and prior to coming to Bryn Mawr, she worked in Career Services and Leadership Development at Philadelphia University and Temple University. During this time she developed targeted career programming for students and alumni, managed an academic internship program and coordinated opportunities for students to develop as leaders.
Jennifer Spohrer
Jennifer Spohrer is the Director of Educational Technology Services in Bryn Mawr College’s Library and Information Technology Services department. Her team helps faculty and students incorporate technology into their teaching, learning, and research in meaningful ways. They host an annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference at Bryn Mawr College, now in its ninth year, and oversee the College’s Digital Competencies program. Jennifer served as project manager for several multi-institutional grants that Bryn Mawr College led, including a U. S. Department of Education FIPSE First in the World grant to develop a Blended, Just-in-Time Math Fundamentals support for students in introductory STEM courses and a Teagle Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience grant to explore how small liberal arts colleges might collaborate to produce interactive online learning materials, using psychology research methods and statistics as a case study.
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at The Inn at Villanova University, the conference location.
To make reservations contact The Inn at Villanova Univeristy at 610-519-8000 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block".
The room block for December 3, 2019, will be available until 5:00pm on November 5, 2019.
Standard guest rooms are available for $189 per night, single occupancy.
1. Developing Digital Competence: How to Build a Digital Competencies Program-Bryn Mawr College
2. Digicomp Inforgaphic and Framework-Bryn Mawr College
3. Digicomp Reflection Activities-Bryn Mawr College
4 . Digicomp Resume Workshop 2018-Bryn Mawr College
5. Oral Articulation Workshop-Bryn Mawr College
6. Digicomp Value Proposition Exercies-Bryn Mawr College
