Jesuit Digital Network Supporting Sharing and Collaboration Melbourne, Australia July 10, 2015.

Jesuit Digital NetworkSupporting Sharing and Collaboration

Melbourne, Australia July 10, 2015

The Jesuit Digital Network is…

…is an online platform and community

created

to bring high quality academic content

in the Jesuit tradition to educators and

learners across institutions and regions.

With the Jesuit Digital Network you can:

1) Find resources to help expand the scope of your institution's offerings locally and globally

2) Share resources to help deliver your mission globally

3) Manage content, discussions, and groups associated with global collaborative projects

How do you find content in the Jesuit Digital Network?

Search is easy and powerful

• Lectures, case studies, lesson plans, student

guides, articles, original source material,

videos, data, images, etc

• Completely dynamic keyword tagging

• Often logically grouped into cohesive sets of

content

Dynamic Tagging

Multi-part teaching module

Use a “group” to quickly find content of interest

Or use “hubs” to discover groups and collections of content on specific topics

How do you contribute content to the Jesuit Digital Network?

Directly import content or just link to external resources

Content that is added

Can be kept private with co-authors

until ready to publish

Must have rights and permissions

assigned to control its use and

reuse

Can be tracked and usage

measured

Manage content

Folders for organizing one’s own collections

Individual profiles, roles, and permissions around using

resources

Manage group membership

Manage group discussions

Example: Healing Earth

1. Find content of interest: http://JesuitDigitalNetwork.org

2. View content’s primary site: http://HealingEarth.ijep.net

3. Add link and other items to your or your groups’ private

folders

4. Suggest other relevant content to official curators who

approve it before it is published in the Healing Earth Hub

5. Contributing authors to Healing Earth have private group

to share drafts and discuss

Example: Melbourne 2015

1. Find “Melbourne” content of interest:

http://JesuitDigitalNetwork.org

2. A dedicated Hub for collections and groups

Example: Ethics in Business

1. Find “ethics” content of interest:

http://JesuitDigitalNetwork.org

2. A Group dedicated to Designing Business Ethics Course

3. Teaching Notes and Student Guides:

Encyclical Laudato Si

Additional Benefits of the Network Advancing and sharing Ignatian scholarship and

research worldwide

Professional development of faculty through

improving and adapting curriculum

Translation of materials into multiple languages

Integration of content with learning

management systems and mobile applications

Sharing data about resource use and learning

analytics

Who is helping to develop the platform?

– ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, a California-based education non-profit established in 2002

– ISKME is focused on the intersection of digital tools, content, teaching, and learning

– www.iskme.org

ISKME created OER Commons

Digital Library and Network

• Expertly curated library of 50K+ digital resources opened in 2007

• Structured approach to discovering resources

• Evaluation and creation tools to empower educators to interact directly with resources

• Custom tools for collaborating and organizing resource collections

Who else is creating the Jesuit Digital Network?

You can!

How to join the initiative

• Volunteer to contribute to new feature development

• Reach us to add your resources and collections

• Put us in touch with your IT person

• Create an account and explore

Contact for more info:

Fr. Charles Currie, [email protected]

Damian Saccocio, Consultant, Jesuit Digital [email protected]

Amee Godwin, Director, Innovation, [email protected]

Kate Katz, Project Manager, [email protected]