Digital Literacies as a Post-Graduate attribute

Gwyneth Price. Institute of Education

LILAC, Glasgow11th April, 2012

JISC funded Developing Digital Literacies programme £1.5 million July 2011 to July 2013 12 projects + Professional organisations The aim of the programme is to 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.

All projects have blogs http://bit.ly/rIxCEi

Two year JISC funded projectObjectives1. To gain in-depth understanding of our students’ digital

literacies 2. To evaluate our current provision and opportunities for

our students3. To review our institutional readiness for change

around digital literacies 4. To implement four pilots developing digital literacies

across different contexts

Objectives 2.

5. To explore the needs of staff tasked with developing student digital literacies

6. To develop exemplar organisational strategies focused on digital literacies as a post-graduate attribute

7. To maintain constant dialogue with our partners SEDA, ALT and SCONUL, to ensure dissemination and sector embedding of project findings

About the IOE

Project team

Dr Lesley Gourlay: Academic Writing CentreDr Martin Oliver: London Knowledge LabSusan McGrath: Student UnionGwyneth Price: LibraryDr Jude Fransman: Research Officer

Definitions ....

JISC understands Digital Literacy to "define those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society".

Focus groups:

4 groups: PGCE, Masters, Doctoral, DistanceDraw map indicating your uses of tecahnologiesDistinct identities

PGCE

Role of school placementMarginal role of IOE Using new technologies eg.

IWB and visualisers VLE “like Pandora’s box” Use of iPhone, Google Docs etc

Masters students

Focus on VLE and access to lecture slides and readings

Managing identities , eg using Facebook as students and professionals

Doctoral students

Focus on library databases, library classification, access to other libraries

Organising research, eg EndNote

Distance LearnersStudents studying on the same programme but in different countriesIssues of connectedness and communityUsing “unofficial” channels of communication when necessary

Next phase

Multimodal journalling using iPod touches Interviews Pilot by staff involved inventories of digital resources

used, maps of spaces inhabited, examples of digital practices (photo, video or audio), diaries of digital experiences.

Change management

Open ModeAssessmentUndergraduates

Any questions?

Contact Gwyneth PriceEmail: g.price@ioe.ac.ukTwitter @gwynethp or @ioelibraryBlog: http://newsamnews.ioe.ac.uk