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'''Short description:''' University students are at least 18 yrs old (often older with the emphasis on widening participation) and have spent many years unconsciously accumulating or deliberately developing a digital identity. When people enter university they are expected to accept a new digital identity, one which may rarely acknowledge and easily exploit their preceding experience and productivity. Students are given a new email address, new authentication credentials, expected to submit course work using institutionally unique tools and develop a portfolio of work over three to four years which is set apart from their existing portfolio of work and often difficult to exploit after graduation. | '''Short description:''' University students are at least 18 yrs old (often older with the emphasis on widening participation) and have spent many years unconsciously accumulating or deliberately developing a digital identity. When people enter university they are expected to accept a new digital identity, one which may rarely acknowledge and easily exploit their preceding experience and productivity. Students are given a new email address, new authentication credentials, expected to submit course work using institutionally unique tools and develop a portfolio of work over three to four years which is set apart from their existing portfolio of work and often difficult to exploit after graduation. | ||
I think this is unacceptable and will be increasingly resented by individuals paying to study at university. Both students and staff will suffer this disconnect caused by institutions not employing available online technologies and standards rapidly enough. There is also the legacy of institutions expecting and being expected to provide online tools to staff and students. This was useful and necessary several years ago, but it is now quite possible for individuals in the UK to study, learn and work apart from any institutional technology provision. For example, Google provides many of these tools and will have a longer relationship with the individual than the university is likely | I think this is unacceptable and will be increasingly resented by individuals paying to study at university. Both students and staff will suffer this disconnect caused by institutions not employing available online technologies and standards rapidly enough. There is also the legacy of institutions expecting and being expected to provide online tools to staff and students. This was useful and necessary several years ago, but it is now quite possible for individuals in the UK to study, learn and work apart from any institutional technology provision. For example, Google provides many of these tools and will have a longer relationship with the individual than the university is likely to. Many students and staff are relinquishing institutional technology ties and an indicator of this is the massive % of students who do not use their university email address (96% in [http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2008/12/15/outsourcing-email-and-data-storage-case-studies/ one case study]). In the UK, universities are keen to accept mature, work-based and part-time students. For these students, university is just a single part of their lives and should not require the development of a digital identity that mainly serves the institution, rather than the individual. | ||
'''Audience:''' Students and staff will benefit. I am hoping that a class of animation students and their course leader will work with me. If not, I will develop some theoretical user scenarios which detail how these issues might be resolved. Institutions will benefit, too, as they will not be expected (nor required) to provide support for personally owned technologies. Costs may also fall as the above email case studies have shown. | '''Audience:''' Students and staff will benefit. I am hoping that a class of animation students and their course leader will work with me. If not, I will develop some theoretical user scenarios which detail how these issues might be resolved. Institutions will benefit, too, as they will not be expected (nor required) to provide support for personally owned technologies. Costs may also fall as the above email case studies have shown. | ||