project digitise - lilac 2013
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Presentation by Federica Oradini and Emma Woods at LILAC 2013 conference in Manchester about the JISC funded project at University of Westminster. The project is exploring students' understanding of and attitudes to digital literacy especially as they relate to employability.TRANSCRIPT
Project DigitISE: Digital Information Skills for Employability
Federica Oradini (Senior Lecturer in e-learning) &
Emma Woods (Academic Liaison Librarian)
University of Westminster, London
This session will provide:
• An introduction to the project• A report on questionnaire & focus group
findings • An overview of our one day student conference,
“Get the Digital Edge”• Information on our legacy plans
University of Westminster
Typing class at the Regent Street Polytechnic:
Photograph taken from an album of 1899 http://flic.kr/p/8Cx18H
• Vision - “building the next generation of highly
employable global citizens to shape the future”
• 19,800 students across 4 sites
• Diverse student body
The project
• Jisc Transformations Programme
• One year project (Spring 2012 –
2013) exploring the links between
students’ attitudes towards digital
literacy and employability
• Project Board and delivery group
include staff from across the
University
DigitISE Delivery Group www.photovisi.com
Questionnaire - introduction
• Distributed online in Autumn
2012
• Approx 400 respondents in
first round
• Some schools (more science
based ones) under-
represented so opened
again.
• Total responses = 563
PG Diploma Office Technology and Business Administration - using a word processor package Students from the Polytechnic of Central London, 1989http://flic.kr/p/d1fQ25
Questionnaire – key findings
87.6% love digital technology
81.5% believe they are digitally literate
1.6% use their
smartphone for study
92.3% consider it
important for students to
develop digital skills
56% agreed that most students like to
engage with learning material while travelling
Focus Groups
February 2013 - 3 focus groups were held to follow up on
questionnaire findings:
• DL skills - whose responsibility?
• Awareness of current provision
• DL skills assessment
• Method of delivery
Get the Digital Edge – 21 March 2013
Beyond May 2013: DigitISE legacy
• Draft strategy
• WIReS (Change Academy proposal for embedding
information skills into the curriculum)
• Learning futures @ Westminster
Questions?
Emma Woods (Academic Liaison Librarian)[email protected]
Federica Oradini (Senior Lecturer in e-learning)[email protected]
DigitISE project site: http://blog.westminster.ac.uk/jisc-employability/blog/ Digital Edge web page: www.westminster.ac.uk/digital-edge
With thanks to the University of Westminster Archive Services for the photos
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/facilities-and-services/archive-services
School of commerce
Students from the Regent Street Polytechnichttp://flic.kr/p/cRDf2q .