Developing Digital Literacies and the role of institutional support services

Developing Digital Literacies and the Role of Institutional Support Services, IMWM, 18 June, 2012

Sheila MacNeill, Assistant Director s.macneill@strath.ac.uk 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