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Digital Literacies and the Student Experience
Helen Beetham and Sarah Knight15th November 2011
#JISCDIGLIT
http://bit.ly/jiscdiglit
What is digital literacy?Digital Literacy
“digital literacy expresses the sum of capabilities an individual needs to live,
learn and work in a digital society”
2008 Learners' experiences of e-learning programmeStudents inhabit digitally-saturated personal/social worldsTechnology choices are critical to identity and experienceThey expect 24/7 access to course information
BUTStudents struggle to transpose digital skills to study tasksAcademic staff skills/confidence critical to +ve experiencesStudy preferences and needs are very different
2008/10 Student expectations studiesProspective students unclear about the role technology could play in learning at UniversityStudents feel positive about using technology when educational benefits are clearICT access and facilities becoming a factor in student choice
How does digital literacyimpact on the student experience?
www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/llida
Digital Literacy
How can digital literacyenhance the student experience?
www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/llida
Digital Literacy
Being able to learn fluently across technologies and contexts
Building academic/professional digital identity
Getting access tolearning opportunities
Integrating diverseliving/learning experiences
Having critical judgementin relation to digital means and media
Knowing what I need to know, and how to express it
Being a participant in the digital learning community
www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/llida
Digital Literacy Is digital literacyessential to the student experience?
And, if so, what are our responsibilities?
What challenges do your students facein becoming digitally literate learners?
2009/10 Learning literacies in a digital age studyLearners need high-value, meaningful experiences in which technology is intrinsicDifferent subject areas demand different kinds of digital capabilitySupport is fragmented; staff often lack confidence in this area
How does digital literacydevelop through University study?
www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/llida
Digital Literacy
Identity development
How does digital literacydevelop through University study?
Digital Literacy
How will we manage multiple identities in a world where public and private are being redefined?
How will we act safely and responsibility in hybrid spaces?
Digital LiteracyHow does digital literacy
develop through University study?
How does this relate tograduate attributes?
Digital Literacy
Sense making
Social intelligence
Adaptive thinking
Cross-cultural competency
Virtual collaboration
Computational thinking
New media literacy
Cognitive load management
Transdisciplinarity
Design mindset
Davies, A., Fidler, D., Gorbis, M. (2011) Future Work Skills 2020. Institute for the Future, for the University of Phoenix Research Institute. University of Phoenix.
How does this relate tograduate attributes?
Digital Literacy
Digital literacy one of five graduate attributes at Oxford Brookes University, defined as…
The functional access, skills and practices necessary to become . . .
a confident, agile adopter of a range of technologies for personal, academic and professional use
https://wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/slidacases/Oxford+Brookes
What kinds of experiencedo your students need to have...
(a) in the curriculum?(b) in the co-curriculum?
… to develop authentic digital capabilities and relevant graduate attributes?
How do institutions need to change?
2010 Supporting Learners in a Digital Age (SLIDA)9 institutions studied in depth9 critical questions, including:
Q4. How can the development of digital learners be supported in individual, personalised ways?
Q5. In what ways can digital policies and practices be student driven?
Q8. How are institutions making use of effective digital learners to benefit other learners?
wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/slida
How do institutions need to change?
Involve learners in shaping their ownexperience with technology
www.jisc.ac.uk/digiemerge
2009/12 Curriculum Design & Delivery
Students as active curriculum partners
Harnessing student skills
Creating collaborative cultures
'Engaged students – the leaders of tomorrow – are encouraged to see how their own ideas can lead to collaborative change … If institutions can embrace passionate student advocates, they will be in a good position to drive forward innovation and to make a real and genuine difference to the services they provide.'Dale Potter, Students’ Project Coordinator, University of Exeter
Integrate technologiesinto learning places and spaces
University of Edinburgh SLIDA case study (2010)New teaching studio: collaboration and personal devices 'designed in'Informal group study spaces with wifi, sockets, projectors:
library pods, bookable rooms, common areasMain library refurbishment: flexible spaces for different kinds of study
Integrate technologiesinto learning places and spaces
We really, really struggled to be in the computing lab, and there'd be ...six of you trying to sit around one monitor...
We ended up doing it in separate sections and putting it all together... It
really wasn't suited at all to group work. Kate Slaughter, student
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I don't know how you did without them, honestly, because just every single group would book those rooms. Marsali Wallace, student
Prepare learners for learningwith technology
Student consultation: positively evaluated: continuously updatedhttps://wiki.brookes.ac.uk/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36208955
Abingdon and Witney College SLIDA case study
● Extensive student consultation● Lack of digital and learning skills● Developed online package:
Digital and Learning Literacies Induction (DALLI)
● Reusable, updated regularly● All students undergo formative
assessment for IT skills ● One hour digital literacy
induction sessions using DALLI● Revision/review any time
University of BradfordOnline pre-induction support
● Expectations survey and first year experience qu'aire
● Students struggle with transition to university study
● Use familiar social software environment
● Pre-induction students ask questions of student mentors
● Meet other students pre-arrival● Links to 'Develop Me!' skills and
induction material
Integrate Digital Literacies #jiscdiglit
Developing Digital Literacies 2011/13 A sector-wide programme promoting the development of
coherent, inclusive and holistic institutional strategies and organisational approaches for developing digital literacies for staff and students in UK further and higher education
University of Greenwich University of the Arts London
University of Exeter Coleg Llandrillo
University of Plymouth University of Reading
University of Bath University College London
Oxford Brookes University Cardiff University
Worcester College Institute of Education
www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/
What could your institution be doing?
- to enhance the experience of learning with technology?
- to offer digitally rich experiences in and beyond the curriculum?
- to ensure all students have access to digital devices, networks, skills?
- to recognise and respond to students' digital preferences?
- to develop as a learning organisation in the digital age?
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Materials from the Developing Digital Literacies Programme #jiscdiglit
Working across the sector
JISC is working in collaboration with sector bodies and professional associations to:
Gather information and user requirements
Develop professional frameworks and practices
Synthesise and validate outcomes from the programme
Raise awareness and consult widely with stakeholders
Organisations we are working with initially include:ALDinHE | ALT | AUA | HEDG | LSIS | NUS
ODHE | SCAP | SDF | SEDA | SCONUL | Vitae
Opportunities to involve and engage others will follow.