Keeping up-to-date with current developments in digital literacy can be challenging. This interactive session aims to highlight new and interesting initiatives, identify the key issues you need to know about and provide plenty of opportunity for discussion and sharing with fellow attendees. The slides in this presentation formed the 'blocks' for the Blockbusters game, where attendees had to create a digital literacy programme for their institution.

1. Develop a Definition
& Framework
To clarify understanding & identify priorities
EXAMPLES
• Jisc
• 7 elements: media literacy, communications &
collaboration, career & identity management, ICT literacy,
learning skills, digital scholarship, information literacy
• Greenwich 5 resources
• Decoding, meaning-making, analysing, persona, using
• Digilit Leicester
• Strands: Creating and Sharing, Assessment and Feedback,
Communication, Collaboration and Participation, E-Safety
and Online Identity, Technology supported Professional
Development
• Levels: Entry, Core, Developer, Pioneer

2. Online Resources for Staff
Flexible delivery of CPD
EXAMPLES
• Open University Being digital
www.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/beingdigital/
• Activities can be explored within four themes –
Finding information, Using information, Creating
information, and Workplace skills – which map loosely
to the OU’s Digital and Information Literacy
Framework.

3. Self-evaluations
Encourage self-reflection & provide guidance
on development
EXAMPLES
• Jisc list of self-evaluations including
• Exeter CASCADE Learner
quiz http://bit.ly/learnerquiz
• Researcher quiz http://bit.ly/researcherquiz
• Digilit Leicester survey
• http://www.digilitleic.com/

4. Co-mentoring
Students and staff supporting each other
EXAMPLES
• Learning Zone
The Learning Zone at the University of the Arts,
London is a peer support and co-mentoring
initiative which employs students alongside
professional staff and has been considered among
the most forward-thinking aspects of institutional
provision.

5. Communities of practice
Share expertise, provide peer support, encourage culture
change
EXAMPLES
• DIAL project - Enable sixteen self-identifying
communities within UAL to articulate their digital
literacies goals and aspirations, assess their existing skills
and confidence levels, and develop processes to support
their development, including the generation of resources
(for example such as digital video recordings of staff
using applications which are new to them, and
articulating in a voice-over their concerns and their
developing understanding).
• Social networking on campus - Reading
• Lunchtime sessions - Teeside

6. Institutional Audit
Co-ordinate and benchmark activities across
an institution
EXAMPLES
• Jisc DDL Institutional Audit tool
• Ucisa Survey of Digital Capabilities
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/digcap

7. Student Digital Champions
Harnessing student experience
EXAMPLES
• LSE Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl/
• Jisc Change Agents Network
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/change-
agents-network
• Newcastle University Technology
Ambassadors

8. Embedding within
Professional Review process
Ensuring digital literacy is formally recognised in
review processes
• University of Plymouth - Working with HR
embedding Digital literacy into the PDR
process. The university was moving from an
appraisal to a Professional Development Review
process, so the project worked with Heads of
School and HR to identify digital skills across the
board.
• Newcastle University – inclusion of a digital
literacy objective within PDR

9. Embedding within
the curriculum
Ensuring co-ordinated, relevant, timely
support for students
EXAMPLES
• Leeds Met – mapping DL to graduate
attributes & making an institution wide
priority

10. Developing digital cultures
& attitudes
Moving beyond skills
EXAMPLES
• Celebrating innovations, open discussion &
exploration, social networking
• NU Digital, #seeitshowittryit, Teeside DL
development day, Digitally Ready project

11. Online Resources
for Students
Flexible resources to support development
EXAMPLES
• Surrey Skills Portal
http://libweb.surrey.ac.uk/library/skills/lear
ningskills.html
• University of Southampton Digital Literacies
Toolkit
https://www.elanguages.ac.uk/digital_litera
cies.php

12. Accreditation
For motivation & recognitions of skills
EXAMPLES
• Use of accreditation in FE through the units
at the Open College Network for both staff
and students – PADDLE project
• Open Badges – eg Mozilla Web Literacy

13. Mapping to graduate
attributes
Mapping digital literacy to key priorities
EXAMPLES
• Leeds Beckett University - Erin Nephin
Started 2011 - embedding for undergraduate
students as a graduate attribute. Complete
course review & DL is now one of the 3
graduate attributes must be embedded in all
courses (others are global outlook, being
enterprising)

14. Digital Literacy Events
Create a buzz & share good practice
EXAMPLES
• NU Digital – large exhibition event with
surgeries, bitesize demos, cutting edge
research & day-to-day skills
• #seeitshowittryit – internal library staff
development event at Newcastle Uni
• Teeside Digital Literacy Development day

15. Fund mini-projects
Provide motivation & create examples of good
practice
EXAMPLES
• Digitally Ready project
http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/digitallyready/

16. Staff Digital Champions
Provide local support & expertise
EXAMPLES
• University of Teeside
• E-Guides in FE sector

17. Working with Careers
Working in collaboration with other teams on
employability
EXAMPLES
• Leeds Metropolitan University, Sarah
Hotchkin & Stevie Farrell – library and
careers working together on a session on
employability / online identity etc