Professionalism in the Digital Environment (PriDE) University of Bath

Project manager: Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou [email protected]

Project officer: Julian Prior

[email protected]

Project officer (Dissemination): Sarah Turpin Project Adviser: Matt Benka

http://digilitpride.wordpress.com/

Info Resources Administration Learning Experiences Research

Provides access For

Staff Students Other stakeholders

Digital environment

Communication Collaboration Administration Learning

Functions Need to develop

Skills, competencies and capabilities Infrastructure and systems

When Manifests

In physical spaces Online Pre-entry Whilst at uni Alumni

1. Semi-structured interviews BASELINE METHODOLOGY 2. Scoping and Horizon Scanning 3. Website and Document Audit 4. Faculty Learning Communities

Faculty Learning Communities

(FLCs)

FLC FLC

SCAP VITAE UKOLN ETC SU Institutional Learning Community Student engagement

FLC FLC

Define and articulate ‘digital literacies’ in the disciplines Audit and carry out needs analysis for students/staff

Topics covered in the Faculty Learning Communities • • • • • • • What is digital literacy?

Faculty definition of DL Set of learner DL attributes Current/future technology use

FLC 1 FLC 2

• • • Perceptions of current DL provision in the Faculty Relative importance of DL skills Staff access to support and development in DL Refine set of Faculty learner DL attributes Digital diaries Skills required for supporting and developing DL

FLC 3

Lessons learned

o Strategic documentation refers explicitly to provision of access and implicitly to skills development – but not to developing practices o Digital literacy skills/practices not routinely designed into curriculum o Provision of hardware/software and support for non standard users – including user expectations o Barriers to supporting students in digital literacy – time and ‘not knowing what I need to know’ o Development of Digital Environment