Presentation for Employer Engagement in a Digital Age Conference, 4 July 2012, University of Greenwich,

1. The Digital University - A
Proposed Framework for
Strategic Development
Bill Johnston (b.johnston@strath.ac.uk)
Sheila MacNeill (s.macneill@strath.ac.uk,@sheilmcn)
Employer Engagement in a Digital Age Conference, 4 July
2012, University of Greenwich, #apt2012

2. Session Overview
 Background and overview of our work
 Focal point of session
 Activities:
 Discussion/contextualisation of the matrix
◦ E.g. identification of key links to the employer
engagement agenda
 Estimate of viability of model for strategic
discussion
◦ E.g how/could you use this model in your
institution?

3. The Digital University: key themes
Digital
Participation
Information
Literacy
Curriculum &
Course
Design
Learning
Environment

4. Information Literacy Definition
 "Information literacy is the adoption of
appropriate information behaviour to
identify, through whatever channel or
medium, information well fitted to
information needs, leading to wise and
ethical use of information in society.”
 (Webber, Johnston, 2003)

5. Introductory blog post
 “using an information literacy lens
provides us with a means to produce a
coherent outline of a digital university and
suggest strategic developments of the
digital infrastructure, learning
environment and management culture
required to fully achieve the potential of
the digital technologies.”
(http://bit.ly/wUzP2p)

6. Our conceptual matrix
Digital Participation Information Literacy
•Civic Role and responsibilities
•Community Engagement
•Networks (human & digital)
•Technological affordances
•(http://bit.ly/wMgL0W)
•High level concepts and
perceptions and influencing
practice
•Staff and student engagement
•Effective development and use
of infrastructure
•(http://bit.ly/zaZX7H)
Curriculum & Course Design Learning Environment
•Constructive alignment
•Curriculum representations,
course management, pedagogical
innovation
•Recruitment and marketing
•Reporting, data, analytics
•(http://bit.ly/ypTdqx)
•Physical and digital
•Pedagogical and social
•Research and Enquiry
•(http://bit.ly/JJIDhJ)

7. Stats as of 23 May 2012

11. Some starters for 10
 What constitutes an information literate learning environment?
 What are the common understandings of information literacy?
what are the key operational requirements from digital infrastructure?
 Is there ubiquitous, stable wifi connection; refurbished physical teaching and
learning spaces as well as state of the art research facilities?
 What are the key digital literacy skills needed by staff, students and employers?
 What are the key digital literacy expectations for/from staff, students and
employers?
 How can institutions begin to distinguish their unique features and make them
explicit to increasingly demanding student (customer) requirements?
 Is key data about courses easily available for a variety of purposes including
marketing, formal reporting requirements such a HESA, KIS?