Develop a Definition & Framework

To clarify understanding & identify priorities

EXAMPLES

• Jisc• 7 elements: media literacy, communications &

collaboration, career & identity management, ICT literacy, learning skills, digital scholarship, information literacy

• Greenwich 5 resources• Decoding, meaning-making, analysing, persona, using

• Digilit Leicester• Strands: Creating and Sharing, Assessment and Feedback,

Communication, Collaboration and Participation, E-Safety and Online Identity, Technology supported Professional Development

• Levels: Entry, Core, Developer, Pioneer

Online Resources for Staff

Flexible delivery of CPD

EXAMPLES

• Open University Being digitalwww.open.ac.uk/libraryservices/beingdigital/

• Activities can be explored within four themes –Finding information, Using information, Creating information, and Workplace skills – which map loosely to the OU’s Digital and Information Literacy Framework.

Self-evaluations

Encourage self-reflection & provide guidance on development

EXAMPLES

• Jisc list of self-evaluations including• Exeter CASCADE Learner

quiz http://bit.ly/learnerquiz

• Researcher quiz http://bit.ly/researcherquiz

• Digilit Leicester survey• http://www.digilitleic.com/

Co-mentoring

Students and staff supporting each other

EXAMPLES

• Learning ZoneThe Learning Zone at the University of the Arts, London is a peer support and co-mentoring initiative which employs students alongside professional staff and has been considered among the most forward-thinking aspects of institutional provision.

Communities of practice

Share expertise, provide peer support, encourage culture change

EXAMPLES

• DIAL project - Enable sixteen self-identifying communities within UAL to articulate their digital literacies goals and aspirations, assess their existing skills and confidence levels, and develop processes to support their development, including the generation of resources (for example such as digital video recordings of staff using applications which are new to them, and articulating in a voice-over their concerns and their developing understanding).

• Social networking on campus - Reading

• Lunchtime sessions - Teeside

Institutional Audit

Co-ordinate and benchmark activities across an institution

EXAMPLES

• Jisc DDL Institutional Audit tool

• Ucisa Survey of Digital Capabilitieshttp://www.ucisa.ac.uk/digcap

Student Digital Champions

Harnessing student experience

EXAMPLES

• LSE Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl/

• Jisc Change Agents Networkhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/change-agents-network

• Newcastle University Technology Ambassadors

Embedding within Professional Review process

Ensuring digital literacy is formally recognised in review processes

• University of Plymouth - Working with HR embedding Digital literacy into the PDR process. The university was moving from an appraisal to a Professional Development Review process, so the project worked with Heads of School and HR to identify digital skills across the board.

• Newcastle University – inclusion of a digital literacy objective within PDR

Embedding within the curriculum

Ensuring co-ordinated, relevant, timely support for students

EXAMPLES

• Leeds Met – mapping DL to graduate attributes & making an institution wide

priority

Developing digital cultures & attitudes

Moving beyond skills

EXAMPLES

• Celebrating innovations, open discussion & exploration, social networking

• NU Digital, #seeitshowittryit, Teeside DL development day, Digitally Ready project

Online Resources for Students

Flexible resources to support development

EXAMPLES

• Surrey Skills Portalhttp://libweb.surrey.ac.uk/library/skills/learningskills.html

• University of Southampton Digital Literacies Toolkithttps://www.elanguages.ac.uk/digital_literacies.php

Accreditation

For motivation & recognitions of skills

EXAMPLES

• Use of accreditation in FE through the units at the Open College Network for both staff and students – PADDLE project

• Open Badges – eg Mozilla Web Literacy

Mapping to graduate attributes

Mapping digital literacy to key priorities

EXAMPLES

• Leeds Beckett University - Erin NephinStarted 2011 - embedding for undergraduate students as a graduate attribute. Complete course review & DL is now one of the 3 graduate attributes must be embedded in all courses (others are global outlook, being enterprising)

Digital Literacy Events

Create a buzz & share good practice

EXAMPLES

• NU Digital – large exhibition event with surgeries, bitesize demos, cutting edge research & day-to-day skills

• #seeitshowittryit – internal library staff development event at Newcastle Uni

• Teeside Digital Literacy Development day

Fund mini-projects

Provide motivation & create examples of good practice

EXAMPLES

• Digitally Ready projecthttp://blogs.reading.ac.uk/digitallyready/

Staff Digital Champions

Provide local support & expertise

EXAMPLES

• University of Teeside

• E-Guides in FE sector

Working with Careers

Working in collaboration with other teams on employability

EXAMPLES

• Leeds Metropolitan University, Sarah Hotchkin & Stevie Farrell – library and careers working together on a session on employability / online identity etc