Slides from the JISC Developing Digital Literacies workshop, 2011 (with Rhona Sharpe)

1. 26 May 2011
Goodenough College, London
What are institutions doing to support the
development of learners for a digital age?

2. Digital Literacy
The SLiDA project
How are institutions creating and enabling opportunities that
promote the development of effective learning in a digital age?
Acknowledgement: Alfred Lerner Hall © Getty Images.

3. SLiDA Case Studies

4. Digital Literacy
Key findings from Slida
WHAT are institutions doing to support the
development of learners for a digital age?
1. Preparing students for their experience of learning
with technology
2. Enabling learners to use their own devices and
services
3. Reconfiguring campus spaces for social learning
4. Listening to learner voices
5. A strategic emphasis on course design for blended
learning

5. Guest case study
Vicki Simpson, University of Surrey

6. Digital Literacy
Activity
Visit each of the posters (4 mins x 5 posters)
Listen, question, leave a sticker:
• Green: we are already doing this,
and evaluating it
• Yellow: we are starting to do this
• Red: we aren’t doing this

7. How are institutions meeting
Digital Literacy
the challenge?
HOW are institutions implementing their strategies and policies for
developing learners for a digital age?

8. How are institutions meeting
Digital Literacy
the challenge?
1. Use audit tools to find out where you are and to help
agree where change is needed
2. Factor in time to consult about the nature of digital
literacy
3. Contextualise digital literacies within the
discipline/programme, using stories, examples,
frameworks
4. Involve lots of different people
5. Start with what students already know and use
6. Build respectful, two way relationships with students
7. Support incremental progression

9. Digital Literacy
Auditing your institution
Digital Literacies Audit Tool
Pilot @ 16 institutions (2009)
New version trialled at
'several' institutions since
With resources to support
student engagement
Freely available for
repurposing and reuse

10. Digital Literacy
Auditing your institution
The audit has clearly woken up a number of people about the need
to address the issues.
The audit really helped us see where we need to do more work.
[Reviewing] both our strategic documentation and our current
practice identified gaps that were not obvious from inside the
organisation.
I think we’ve really benefited from doing this, and it’s helped us
consolidate what’s happening across the University
Already the outputs of our internal audit are making changes to what
we do and how we do it, so thank you for involving us in the
project and giving us an impetuous for change.
An immediate outcome from this audit is a request (from two
faculties) to bring the tool to Faculty Learning and Teaching
Committee for wider discussions.