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Developing Digital Literacies and the role of institutional support services
1. 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
4. 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/program
mes/elearning/developingdigitalliteracies/
developingdigitalliteraciesprog.aspx
5. JISC Developing Digital
LiteraciesProgramme (#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.”
16. 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.
17. 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.
19. Personal – v – institutional
DIY and BYOD
What areinstitutionsgood for/at? What
should they leave well alone?
What kinds of resilience will individuals and
organisations need?
Where dept do you work in? Does you institution class itself as a digital university in anyway you are aware of? E.g digital campus, strategy etc?Do you consider yourself to be digitally literate?Do you have a definition of digital literacy that you use?
94 technolgies/standards
Discussion. Points questions.
Who/what drives infrastructure policy decisions at your institution? How does your institution find out what technologies staff and students are using?
Would this work in your institution? What are the key questions?