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

Rhona Sharpe and Greg BenfieldSLiDA Project TeamOxford Brookes University

JISC Experts Group 23/03/2011

Maple House, Birmingham

2006-08 Learners' experiences of e-learning programmeStudents' success depends on strategies for integrating ICT into academic practice; students' strategies and preferences differ widely

2009 Learning Literacies for a Digital Age studyDigital literacy needs to be integrated across the curriculum: learners develop through authentic tasks in meaningful situations

2010 Supporting Learners in a Digital AgeNine institutional case studies in developing learners' digital capabilities: listening to and responding to learners as a theme

2011 Digital literacy workshop seriesCascading outcomes of LliDA and SLIDA: tools for organisational and curriculum development; sharing best practice

2011-13 Digital Literacy programmeFunded institutional and projects, integrating digital literacy development across the board; community consultation

JISC Learner Experiences of eLearning

2006-08 Learners' experiences of e-learning programmeStudents' success depends on strategies for integrating ICT into academic practice; students' strategies and preferences differ widely

2009 Learning Literacies for a Digital Age studyDigital literacy needs to be integrated across the curriculum: learners develop through authentic tasks in meaningful situations

2010 Supporting Learners in a Digital AgeNine institutional case studies in developing learners' digital capabilities: listening to and responding to learners as a theme

2011 Digital literacy workshop seriesCascading outcomes of LliDA and SLIDA: tools for organisational and curriculum development; sharing best practice

2011-13 Digital Literacy programmeFunded institutional and projects, integrating digital literacy development across the board; community consultation

JISC Learner Experiences of eLearning

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.

SLiDA Case Studies

Key findings from Slida 1

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

Key findings from SLiDA 2

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

Activity 1

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

HOW findings from Slida 2

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

Activity 2

Go back to one of the posters where you would like to effect change

Form a group or groups of 4-6

Use the ‘HOW’ findings to plan how to take this forward at your institutions

Be prepared to feedback

‘What would help me take this forward is….’

What would help me take this forward is

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What next?

JISC-funded programme on whole-institution approaches to digital literacy development (watch this space)

JISC Digital Literacy workshops:

– 26 May London

– 23 June Birmingham

– 22 September Manchester

– 6 October Bristol

For more information:

• www.jisc.ac.uk/developingdigitalliteracies

• SLIDA case studies: wiki.brookes.ac.uk/display/slida

• LliDA best practice examples and materials