developing digital literacies and the role of institutional support services
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Developing Digital Literacies and the role of institutional support services, workshop at #iwmw12 conference, 18 June, 2012, University of EdinburghTRANSCRIPT
Developing Digital Literacies and the Role of Institutional Support Services, IMWM, 18 June, 2012
Sheila MacNeill, Assistant Director [email protected] twitter: @sheilmcn
Session overview
• Digital literacy: personal and institutional views • What is a digital university?
What is digital literacy?
• “By digital literacy we mean those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society (JISC)”
• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/developingdigitalliteraciesprog.aspx
JISC Developing Digital Literacies Programme (#jiscdiglit)
• “promote the development of coherent, inclusive and holistic institutional strategies and organisational approaches for developing digital literacies for all staff and students in UK further and higher education.”
http://bit.ly/MsXT10
• Technologies?• Infrastructure?• Skills and knowledge? • Who, what, why, where and how of provision
http://prod.cetis.ac.uk http://bit.ly/Mz4lmW
http://www-958.ibm.com/v/134749
http://bit.ly/ymzyYH
Project Baselining
• Policy and strategy• Support and professional services• Practices• Developing capability• Cultures and attitudes
Drivers
H Beetham, Programme Meeting, May 2012, http://bit.ly/KLnfVB
IT/Information Strategies
• consistent provision of digital tools and services
• secure, reliable physical IT infrastructure
• well managed digital resources for research and teaching
• effective user consultation
• integrated systems; systematic working practices and
associated staff development.
Information Strategies
• Information strategies demonstrate the need for secure
and integrated management of information assets
whether these are generated in the process of research or
in other activities such as learning and teaching, or
administration and business processes.
• http://bit.ly/JiUV0m projects summary• http://bit.ly/KWFJUo -
associations/professional bodies summary
Personal – v – institutional
DIY and BYOD What are institutions good for/at? What
should they leave well alone? What kinds of resilience will individuals and
organisations need?
The digital university
http://bit.ly/wUzP2p