Sarah Davies, Jisc

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What are your digital literacy challenges?

» What are you trying to achieve in the area of digital literacies?

» If you could approach the digital literacy oracle and ask one question, what would it be?

» Share it at http://bit.ly/diglitexperts

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Some key messages on developing digital literacies

Discuss

digital issues

Strategic approac

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Review current support

Develop staff skills

Embed in

curriculum

Students as

partners

Promote digital

identity

Parallel activities

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Lessons learned in developing digital literacies

» Institutional policy and process

»Organisational culture and attitudes

»Developing a supportive infrastructure

»Professional services and student support

»Developing digital practices in the curriculum

»Developing academic staff

»Developing students’ digital literacies

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Institutional policy and process

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Evidence

Strategies

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process

Context

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Organisational cultures and attitudes

»What influences senior managers, academics, professional staff, students?

»Impact of organisational change

»Link with other drivers or initiatives

»Let the medium be the message

»Communities of practice

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Developing a supportive infrastructure

»Wifi is king

»Personal devices and services can be used effectively for educational purposes

»But ‘bring your own device’ is not yet fully supported in infrastructure & culture

»Students have different needs, digital practices and identities – flexible tasks and environments

»Dialogue between IT teams and lecturers, researchers and students

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Professional services and student support

»Raise awareness of digital tools and practices

»Time for professional development and networking

»Professional identity, accreditation and recognition

»Models or frameworks may help

»‘Just in time’ integrated student support

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Developing digital practices in the curriculum

»Digital practices for academic success are subject specific and best practised in a disciplinary context

»Subject-specific digital attributes?

»Curriculum design is key – embed digital into quality mechanisms and graduate attributes

»Academic vs general technologies

»How digitally skilled do teaching staff need to be?

»Digital learning activities should be creative and appropriately assessed

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Developing academic staff

»Developing professional digital identity is motivator

»Digital practices for research and collaboration

»Need examples of good practice, relevant to discipline

»Need time, space and support

»Models or practical approaches?

»Reflective practice is scary but powerful

»Cohorts can share ideas and develop into communities of practice

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Developing students’ digital literacies

»Student confidence is usually ahead of their capability

› Diagnostic/audit tools are useful – eg  http://bit.ly/learnerquiz

»Different types and levels of guidance needed

› Most learners need some help

»Opportunities to learn from peers

»Motivated by developing an online professional identity

»Tutor practices and course requirements are crucial

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Students as change agents

»Staff-student partnerships are powerful in driving change.

»Sharing complementary skills

»Models of engagement

»Student roles: researchers, ambassadors,designers/developers, representatives andchampions

»Great development opportunity for students

»Able to innovate as they understand user needs and have less stake in status quo

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Developing digital literacies infokit

»Practical guidance, tools and approaches from the Jisc Developing digital literacies programme and beyond

» ‘Top-down’ strategic considerations involved in developing digital literacies across an institution

» ‘On the ground’ view of what this means in practice for many different role groups

»Available at www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/digital-literacies

»Give us feedback at www.surveymonkey.com/s/digital-literacies

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Workshop tables

A & B: Staff development for digital literaciesSee also the guide to the UKPSF in the digital university at http://bit.ly/digukpsf

C & D: Embedding digital activities in the curriculum

E & F: Digital support throughout the student journey

Also have a look at relevant sections of the infokit at http://bit.ly/diglitkit

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What else could Jisc do to help you in this area?

»Additional guidance?

»Examples and case studies?

»Rich media?

»Printed resources?

»Individual advice and guidance?

»Other ideas…

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Find out more…

Developing digital literacies

Sarah DaviesHead of Change – student experience

s.davies@jisc.ac.uk

www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/digital-literacies/bit.ly/diglitds

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