Just a couple of provisos before we start…What I’m presenting is currently in draft form and has yet to go to Faculties and has not yet been approvedThis is *not* a CiCS’ strategy, it is a university-wide strategy and there will be university-wide involvement in its implementation
Drivers from within the University – The Sheffield Graduate concept – employability skills, management of their digital presence, critical and creative skills to equip them for an unknown future
What are our students like?What’s important to them?Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48973657@N00/4041872282/, See-ming Lee, Sculpture: OMG LOL by Michael Mandiberg
What are they capable of?Image source: Denise Krebs,http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsdkrebs/6400358699/in/photostream/, ‘Technology Use’
Source of data: OECD (2011) ‘Higher Education and Adult Learning – Education at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators’, http://www.oecd.org/edu/highereducationandadultlearning/educationataglance2011oecdindicators.htm#Data, date accessed (11th October 2012)
Global competition, changing marketImage source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24662369@N07/4542423536/, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Earth from Mars
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29862082@N06/3119838595/ by Adrian Perez
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29862082@N06/3119838595/ by Adrian Perez
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29862082@N06/3119838595/ by Adrian Perez
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29862082@N06/3119838595/ by Adrian Perez