This document discusses the development of a digital skills framework for staff and students in Irish higher education. It defines digital skills and reviews existing frameworks for information and digital literacy. The framework aims to provide a flexible and open structure that supports the development of skills like information literacy, ICT skills, visual literacy, and more. Key themes that emerged from feedback included engaging students as creators, employment readiness, professional development for staff, and balancing innovation with student learning. Example programs and case studies are provided to illustrate how digital skills can be developed.

2. Liz Dore, University of Limerick
Blaneth McSharry, National University of Ireland, Galway
LILAC 2016.
Staff and Students Flourishing
in the Digital Age.

5. A Flexible open framework:
Confidence

7. Key recurring themes and topics emerging from
feedback…

8. Why a digital skills framework?

9. Digital Skills
Working Definition
define digital skills, literacies or competencies as …
“the capabilities which fit someone for living, learning and working in a digital society,
with the knowledge that a digital society is ever evolving”.
An extension of the definition used by JISC in Developing Digital Literacies –
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-digital-literacies

10. Back to basics…a review of existing frameworks for information and
digital literacy:

11. Digital skills a complex range of multiliteracies
• Information literacy
• ICT
• Visual literacy
• Media literacy
• Transliteracies
• Multimodal literacies

12. Models for digital skills

13. Skills for Students & Staff
‘I am’ higher order
capability than…
Engage as creators
Employment readiness
Students
Staff
Balance between
innovation & the learning
experience of students
Professional Development

14. Projects/Case Study Examples…

17. Digital Champions Innovation Fund

18. References
All Aboard! (2015) Towards A National Digital Skills Framework For Irish Higher Education,
available: http://allaboardhe.org/DSFramework2015.pdf
JISC (2014) Developing digital literacies, available: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-
digital-literacies

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29. Digital Badges Examples

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37. DIGITAL CHAMPIONS
Develop and showcase your digital skills