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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]
