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Daniel Scott

Mr Daniel Scott-Purdy

Digital Curriculum Manager

Institute of Health and Allied Professions

Staff Group(s)
Nursing and Paramedicine/IHAP

Role

As the Digital Curriculum Manager in the Institute of Health and Allied Professions, within the School of Social Sciences. I manage the responsibility of providing a digital curriculum service that meets the pedagogical support needs of our healthcare courses, students and colleagues. Leading the design, development, implementation, evaluation and continuous improvement of pedagogically-informed digital learning experiences, and technical application of curriculum-specific learning technologies. Key activities include:

  • Operational management of the digital curriculum team, providing digital, academic and technical leadership and line management to Digital Curriculum Support and Developers
  • Delivering my institute-specific digital learning strategy to inform the direction of digital curriculum design, working with the Head of Department and Principal Lecturers
  • Directing the development, implementation and support of curriculum-specific learning technology platforms such as our institute-specific PebblePad Region, Igloo Vision immersive virtual reality 360° suites and associated peripherals
  • Providing specialist pedagogical, technological and innovative expertise to inform decision-making on digital curriculum design and delivery, including generating use/business cases and purchasing
  • Undertaking scholarly activity through research and formally evaluating our digital curriculum projects and initiatives
  • Leading the design of quality assured digital materials and solutions for adaption and use relevant to healthcare higher education
  • Analysing and embedding digital literacies and skills into the curriculum and developing our students and colleagues
  • Coordinating, designing and delivering identified digital learning design and skills workshops to contribute to staff development
  • Overseeing our institute-specific digital curriculum/PebblePad technical first line support service desk

Career overview

Commencing my learning technology career in further education, in the context of teacher education and learning support.  I bring my extensive learning technologist experience to provide digital and academic leadership and operational management, in the pedagogical and technical design and application of learning technologies, to create and support effective and innovative digital learning experiences in healthcare higher education.  I hold a Technology Enhanced Learning MSc, Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Authority (SFHEA) and Senior Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (SCMALT).  I am qualified in teaching, assessing, lead internal verification, management and leadership and information technology and computing, and I am the winner of the ALT Learning Technologist of the Year award 2016 (individual category).  I share my experiences on my professional and personal blog: http://danielscott86.blogspot.com.

Press expertise

  • Digital and academic leadership, operational management and strategy
  • Learning technologies/Virtual Learning Environments including Virtual Reality and immersive learning
  • Curriculum design and development
  • Learning design; digital, online and blended course, learning activity and assessment design
  • Digital literacies, skills and capabilities development