Transcript Developing Digital Skills and Training to Boost Employment

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Developing Digital Skills and
Training to Boost Employment
Paul Bailey, Learning and Teaching Programme,
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
What does the term
“Digital Literacy” mean to you?
Student
Academic Staff
From Mark Kerrigan, University of Greenwich, Baseline Survey 2012
A definition of digital literacy?
We’re working with colleges
and universities to embed core
digital skills into the curriculum.
By digital literacy we mean
those capabilities which fit an
individual for living, learning
and working in a digital
society: for example, the skills
to use digital tools to undertake
academic research, writing and
critical thinking; as part of
personal development planning;
and as a way of showcasing
achievements.
Employable Graduates are Digitally Literate
Around 90% of all new graduate jobs require a high level of digital skills
Race Online 2012: www.raceonline2012.org/stories/jobcentre-plus
“…unless people are digitally literate... they are going to struggle to
function in a modern society and a modern workplace”.
Dr Andrew Eynon, PADDLE Project, Coleg Llandrillo
“So we want to be able to say
University of Greenwich will support
you in reaching whatever you wish to
be, and one way of doing this is making
sure you are equipped to function
digitally in the outside world.”
Mark Kerrigan, University of Greenwich,
speaking in the JISC on Air Radio
podcast
From Hague, C. & Payton, S. (2010) Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum. Bristol: Futurelab
http://futurelab.org.uk/resources/digital-literacy-across-curriculum-handbook
Developing skills for employment
The main driver for developing digital
literacy for arts graduates is
employability.
Arts
and
design
students are going into an industry in
which they need to build themselves
as a brand so they need the digital
capabilities that go along with that
such as creating websites, using
social media for professional gain and
networking, developing an online
portfolio and managing an identity in
the digital age
Lindsay
Jordan,
DIAL
University of the Arts.
project,
Digital Literacies in the Subject Discipline
“A digitally literate person in the Faculty of
Humanities and Social Science is critically
and ethically aware, confident in engaging in
a wide array of digital practices,
resources/tools and academic and
professional environments, and establishing
coherent identities”
PRiDE project, University of Bath
“The use of digital technologies and
media by researchers potentially is
changing what it means to be an
effective researcher or skilled
academic/professional in higher
education”
John Igoe, Developing Digital Literacies
Baseline Report, Vitae.
Digital Literacies of Staff
“The Digital Department focus is on teaching administrators and
recognises their importance as a staff group to supporting the
development of the digital environment in departments but also
contributing to the digital literacies of other academic and support staff
and students”
Alison Gilry, The Digital Department project, University College London
Developing Digital Literacies Programme
A programme across UK
Universities and Colleges
promoting the development
of coherent, inclusive and
holistic institutional
strategies and
organisational approaches
for developing digital
literacies for staff and
students in UK further and
higher education.
Working with Professional Associations
The sector bodies and professional
associations JISC is working with
initially include:
 Organisational Development
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 Association for Learning
Development in Higher
Education (ALDinHE)
 Association for Learning
Technology (ALT)
 Association of University
Administrators (AUA)
 Heads of Educational
Development Group (HEDG)




in Higher Education Group
(ODHE)
Standing Conference on
Academic Practice (SCAP)
Staff Development Forum
(SDF)
Staff and Educational
Development Association
(SEDA)
Society of College, National
and University Libraries
(SCONUL)
Vitae
Staff training Students training Staff
Developing Digital Literacies
Developing
students’
digital
capabilities
Developing
digital
professional
expertise of
all staff
Employability
and
graduate
attributes
Digital literacy
in subject
disciplines
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Developing Digital Literacies
Keeping Informed Getting Involved
Developing Digital Literacies - http://bit.ly/ddl-prog
 JISC on Air online radio programmes
– Part 1 - Digital Literacy – delivering the agenda within colleges and
universities
– Part 2 - Developing digital literacies for working in a digital world
– Available from: www.jisc.ac.uk/jisconair
 Developing Digital Literacies webinar series 2012-13
 Summary of the projects baseline reports. Available online:
http://bit.ly/JiUV0m
 Summary of the professional association baseline reports.
Available online: http://bit.ly/KWFJUo
 Institutional videos from the Developing Digital Literacies projects
visit http://bit.ly/jiscdlprogvideos to hear about how they are
implementing digital literacies at a strategic level
Developing Digital Literacies
briefing paper
 Developing Digital Literacies Briefing
paper available in June 2012, from
http://bit.ly/ddl-prog and available to
order from [email protected]
.
 Provides a summary
of the context and
emerging outcomes of the programme
together with links to relevant
resources.
 Author Sarah Payton, Freelance
Education Researcher and Facilitator
“Digital literacy is the intersection between
digital knowhow and academic practice. Or, if
you want to frame it differently, the ability to
learn, the ability to learn well.”
Helen Beetham, Synthesis consultant
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Further information and resources
 Programme blog - http://elearningprogs.jiscinvolve.org
 Digital Literacies Webinars - http://bit.ly/HKbYoy
 Join [email protected]
 Follow #jiscdiglit
 Come and speak to us – the programme will be represented at the
Blended Learning Conference, HE Academy Conference,
Greenwich e-Learning Conference, ALT-C with proposals
submitted to SEDA Annual conference ( to add)
Innovating e-Learning 2012
The 7th JISC international online
conference takes place on 13th – 23rd
November 2012
Registration details announced shortly!
#jiscel12
www.jisc.ac.uk/elpconference12
Digital literacies will be a key theme of the
conference and opportunities to share your
work in the conference activity week
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