Digital Innovation Season: The Extra Fuel 2021

The scope of this report is to illustrate the Digital Innovation Season (DIS) and present the key findings that have emerged through a period of post-DIS consultation (with academics) and survey (with students). The report evaluates these insights, reflects on the DIS impact, and proposes a set of recommendations for the college around how emerging/digital technologies can be best supported in the future for both academics and students. This report is produced with the support of the Knowledge Exchange Impact Fund awarded to Dr Betti Marenko to conduct an evaluation of the DIS, gather stakeholders’ feedback and indicate potential avenues for scalability, intervention and future planning.

Content and method: Insights were drawn from the following sources: a) Student Survey circulated at the conclusion of the DIS (February 2021); b) Academic Roundtable (May 2021); c) Student Focus Group (May 2021). This material was integrated with personal communications, and informal conversations with both students and staff.

Title: The ‘Extra Fuel’. This is how one of the students who took part in the focus group described the DIS, capturing DIS’s essence: the Fuel necessary to ignite creativity and make the engine of creative practice run longer; and the Extra element it provided from its location outside taught curricula as additional content for student to choose from.