Keynote presentation at GMIT Galway Teaching and Learning Showcase, 12 December 2019

1. Finding the good place: what
really makes digital
transformation happen?
Sheila MacNeill
GMIT, Christmas Teaching and Learning Showcase,
December 12 2019

3. What is digital
transformation?
www.menti.com
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7. “we believe that digital should be seen less as a thing and more a
way of doing things. To help make this definition more concrete,
we’ve broken it down into three attributes: creating value at the new
frontiers of the business world, creating value in the processes that
execute a vision of customer experiences, and building foundational
capabilities that support the entire structure.”
• What ‘Digital’ Really Means. McKinsey & Company. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-
telecommunications/our-insights/what-digital-really-means

10. https://thegoodplace.fandom.com/wiki/The_Good_Place_Wikia

11. Narratives
elements of
the Good
Place
Humanity Ethics
Morality Wellbeing
Time A bit of AI

12. Narrative
elements of
digital
transformation
strategies
People/Customers Services/Platforms
Training Security
Timelines And a bit of AI

13. Time v
Timelines

14. Context, criticality, politics, curriculum
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15. Digital
Wellbeing
“the impact of technologies and digital services
on people’s mental, physical, social and emotional
health. It is a complex concept that can be
viewed from a variety of perspectives and across
different contexts and situations” Jisc , 2019
(https://digitalcapability.jisc.ac.uk/what-is-digital-
capability/digital-wellbeing/)

17. Finding Balance
• Policy v practice
• Curriculum v services

18. Conceptualising the Digital University: the intersection of policy, pedagogy and practice,
(Johnson, MacNeill, Smyth, 2019)
Re-centering “the digital”

20. Academic
development
and open
education at
the heart of
organisational
development
Revised conceptual matrix,, MacNeill, Johntson, Smyth,
(2019 )

21. Critically
engaged
academic
development
as a key part of
digital
transformation
Academic development as critical
practice – central to digital
transformation
Utilise porosity between academic
developers, educational
developers, learning technologists
Challenge structures current
CPD/professional
recognition/metrics are modelling

22. The curriculum
as an open and
negotiated space

23. Porosity (2)
Open scholarship (2)
Co-location(2)
Co-production(2)
Participation Public pedagogy
Praxis
(1)
(3)
Designed physical and
digital learning spaces
Self-selected digital
learning spaces
Formal and informal
learning communities
Public third spaces
Digital third spaces
(3)
Negotiation and agency
Difference and diversity
Curation and creation
Vertical and horizontal
learning engagement
Sustainable pedagogies
Reflexive dialogue
The Digitally Distributed Curriculum
(1) Values (2) Enabling dimensions (3) Instantiation and enactment of DDC
(3) Digital artefacts
Collaborative public projects
Student digital scholarship Digital knowledge domains
(3) Open textbooks and resources Open online engagement
Open campus engagement Open in the community
Fluid curriculum

24. Curriculum as
unbounded
open
equitable
critically informed

26. Thank you
@sheilmcn
sheilamacneill@me.com
https://howsheilaseesit.net