What are institutions doing to support the development of learners for a digital age?

26 May 2011

Goodenough College, London

The SLiDA project

How are institutions creating and enabling opportunities that promote the development of effective learning in a digital age?

Acknowledgement: Alfred Lerner Hall © Getty Images.

Digital Literacy

SLiDA Case Studies

Key findings from Slida

WHAT are institutions doing to support the development of learners for a digital age?

1. Preparing students for their experience of learning with technology

2. Enabling learners to use their own devices and services

3. Reconfiguring campus spaces for social learning

4. Listening to learner voices

5. A strategic emphasis on course design for blended learning

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Guest case study

Vicki Simpson, University of Surrey

Activity

Visit each of the posters (4 mins x 5 posters)

Listen, question, leave a sticker:

• Green: we are already doing this, and evaluating it

• Yellow: we are starting to do this

• Red: we aren’t doing this

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HOW are institutions implementing their strategies and policies for developing learners for a digital age?

Digital LiteracyHow are institutions meeting

the challenge?

1. Use audit tools to find out where you are and to help agree where change is needed

2. Factor in time to consult about the nature of digital literacy

3. Contextualise digital literacies within the discipline/programme, using stories, examples, frameworks

4. Involve lots of different people

5. Start with what students already know and use

6. Build respectful, two way relationships with students

7. Support incremental progression

Digital LiteracyHow are institutions meeting

the challenge?

Auditing your institutionDigital Literacy

Digital Literacies Audit Tool

Pilot @ 16 institutions (2009)

New version trialled at 'several' institutions since

With resources to support student engagement

Freely available for repurposing and reuse

Auditing your institution

The audit has clearly woken up a number of people about the need to address the issues.

The audit really helped us see where we need to do more work. [Reviewing] both our strategic documentation and our current practice identified gaps that were not obvious from inside the organisation.

I think we’ve really benefited from doing this, and it’s helped us consolidate what’s happening across the University

Already the outputs of our internal audit are making changes to what we do and how we do it, so thank you for involving us in the project and giving us an impetuous for change.

An immediate outcome from this audit is a request (from two faculties) to bring the tool to Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee for wider discussions.

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