Digital skills, GDPR and Accessibility
This week started with the “Test your digital skills” test created by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology.
Even though I tested myself with this tool many years ago, it gave me a good chance to reflect on what digital skill really means. I went through all categories thoroughly and considered whether this arrangement could be a composition for deciding one’s level of digital skills. As I wrote on the discussion forum on Canvas, it would be more effective if another category to handle “a digital skill to learn digital skills” is added. It was a great opportunity for me to reflect deeply on my role as a digital learning designer in higher education.
From three articles I read in module 2, I learned more about TEL(Technology enhanced learning) and its standards, such as LOR(Learning Object Repositories), Federated Search and Metadata Harvesting, SCORM(Sharable Content Object Reference Model), and more impressive concepts.
To put it simply, LOR is a conceptual way to manage the distribution of learning resources devised by TEL. Federated Search and Metadata Harvesting is one of the technical solutions to connect heterogeneous repositories. SCORM is a collection of standards that were developed by the Advanced Distributed Learning(ADL). We need to look more closely at those standards as this citation explains.: The TEL infrastructure and standards should be the workhorse that enables a seamless learning experience, becoming, effectively, invisible.”
It was not easy to absorb many terminologies and acronyms at once, but I believe it would help me to get it on if I try to apply these to my work as much as I can.
Furthermore, I realized the importance of GDPR(General Data Protection Regulations) through all materials given during the moment for module 2. I, and maybe we all are already aware of what it is, but this time I learned more about the background, history, the meaning of specific terminology (for example, Data subject, Data controller, Data processor), and how it works practically. I am sure that it will be much helpful to my work, especially in creating digital materials with support of others’ work, implementing a system which needs other stakeholders’ consent, and keeping personal data, etc.
Lastly, a short film on Youtube about the introduction to Web accessibility and W3C standards broadened my view to how to make digital material accessible, which would be a very important topic in inclusive digital learning design. It was imposing that it is not an optional recommendation but more essential as human rights.
This week was full of activities that I had to follow, so it was a valuable time for me.
Reference:
- Erik Duval, Mike Sharples, Rosamund Sutherland.(2017). Technology Enhanced Learning Research Themes: Technical Learning Infrastructure, Interoperability and Standards, 145-153.
- Geraldine Jones, Web 2.0 Practices for Peer Assessment Process: Exploring the Synergies and Tensions (2012) 117-136
- GDPR Information from the EU
- EU GDPR summary |What is the GDPR??IT Governance Ltd,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-VuonciKWk&ab_channel=ITGovernanceLtd
- Introduction to Web Accessibility and W3C Standards?W3C Web accessibility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20SHvU2PKsM&t=228s&ab_channel=W3CWebAccessibilityInitiative%28WAI%29
