2. The context
Exeter a research-intensive university specialising in
research-led teaching
History of successful initiatives led by students as
change agents
High-achieving staff and students who may prefer
'traditional' research and teaching environments
New campus developments including Forum building
with innovative teaching spaces
Opportunities to work with new programmes e.g.
interdisciplinary Visual Culture
3. The programme
JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme 2011-13
Funding for 12 institutional projects
– different aspects of digital capability
– different strategic approaches
Partnership with national professional bodies:
– Exeter working closely with Vitae, ALDinHE and the
SW Doctoral Training Centre
Projects sharing ideas and outcomes in cluster groups
– Exeter working with the Universities of Bath, Reading
and Oxford Brookes
4. Generic aim
to design and implement a range of
innovative strategies and curriculum activities
which ensure that researchers, students and staff
develop their digital capabilities
in the context of their own disciplines
5. Critical values
Digital scholarship
Knowledge practices that support learning, teaching and research,
focusing on how knowledge is generated, grown, shared,
critiqued and communicated in the discipline
Collaboration
Activities designed and led by staff and PGRs, following consultation
about the meaning of digital literacy in the context of different
disciplines and professions
Students as change agents
Postgraduate students are key agents of change in this area, as
early-career researchers, digital natives, and emerging teachers.
6. Activities
Baselining
the situation as is, and priorities for change
Developing people
working with 8-10 postgraduate researchers to develop their
digital capability and local influence
Developing the curriculum
working in at least 15 taught programmes to embed authentic,
research-rich activities that enhance digital scholarship
Developing know-how
building online resources, modules and sessions, a digital literacy
framework, and new capabilities among professional services
