Reflexive ArchiveContexts of Practice in Art and Design: a pilot scheme to develop a model for supplementing a live talks programme by professional practitioners with a student led online forum.

– a project funded by the Art Design and Media Subject Centre at the Higher Education Academy

Rob FlintSenior Lecturer, Fine Art

Lucy RentonFaculty Blended Learner Leader

Reflexive Archive CLTAD presentation:

• Aims• Context• Activities• Challenges• Future potential

Reflexive Archive - Aims

•Archive for video recordings of guest lectures•Extend post-lecture Q&A •Enhance student experience of guest lectures/visitors talks•Archive discussion AND video recording online

Wider aims:

•Explore use of talks delivery in online learning environments•Provide transferable model for disciplines using external professional content •Encourage student use of online educational materials•Evaluate of student response

Reflexive Archive - Context

•‘Interdisciplinary’ models of Fine Art teaching •Student-centred, independent learning•Mirrors professional context

Interdisciplinary practice…

Student-centred, independent learning…

Reflexive Archive - Context

•Role of professional context: external delivery into curriculum necessitates ‘transmissive’ lecture… •… but independent learning favours discussion and reflection, rather than instruction

Students use online resources alongside group activity and individual practice…

Reflexive Archive - Context

Uses of Virtual Learning Environments - (VLEs)

•Differing Institutional Experiences…

Reflexive Archive - Context

•A lot of a/v material on VLE’s is instructive: developing technical skills•Reflexive Archive is discursive: developing critical/analytic skills

Reflexive Archive - Activities

Collaborative Pilot projects:

•Nottingham Trent University – ’Live Lecture’ blog with embedded video streams•Kingston University – Second Life and other resources•Norwich School of Art & Design – Archive material from EAST exhibitions

Reflexive Archive - Activities

Pilot projects:•Nottingham Trent University Fine Art – blog with embedded video streams - screengrabs -

Reflexive Archive - Activities

Archive production workflow:•Lecture recording•Editing, titling•Subtitling/transcription•Compression•Storage•Access

Reflexive Archive - Activities

Pilot projects:•Kingston University – Second Life lecture:

Reflexive Archive - Challenges

•Storage/bandwidth•Firewalls - institutional policy•Sustainability/Workflow•Copyright•Usability, Accessibility•Privacy/confidentiality•Unstable Web 2.0 environment?

Reflexive Archive - Future potential

•New, dynamic teaching materials•Development of independent and distanced learning activity•Better use of diverse content delivered as ‘guest lectures•A valuable archive of professional talks - University as e-publisher..?•Will the archive start to modulate the form of the delivery..? - ‘virtual lectures’, iTunes:

Reflexive Archive - Future potential

•We’d like to hear from you…•Pageflakes page•Blog

Thank you

http://www.pageflakes.com/CLTADNY/21824664