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JISC on Air: Digital Literacy – delivering the agenda within colleges and universities

JISC has a series of bi-monthly ‘radio shows’ (podcasts) for busy senior managers called JISC on Air. These shows offer insight and inspiration by revealing the ways institutions address key challenges in learning, teaching and course management with the help of digital technologies. The latest episode of JISC on Air features people and projects involved […]

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[PRESENTATION] Improving Digital Capability through Digital Literacies

Doug Belshaw presented at the PELeCON conference informing delegates about the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme. His presentation can be found below: [slideshare id=12572720&doc=improvingdigitalcapabilitythroughdigitalliteracies-120417081940-phpapp02] Download the handout from the session here.

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Book now: two further (free!) JISC Digital Literacies webinars

After the very successful Digital Residents and Visitors webinar last December and the Outcomes from JISC ALLE project in January, we are delighted to announce two further public webinars: Mozilla and web literacies (27 April 2012) A history of Digital Literacy in UK & EU (4 May 2012) Book now! (and please do share via […]

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[RESOURCES] JISC at the AUA conference 2012

Myles Danson is a JISC Programme Manager involved in the Associations strand of the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme. At this week’s conference for the Association of University Administrators (AUA) he ran a session with JISC infoNet Director Patrick Bellis. The session featured a section entitled What skills do we need for the digital age? […]

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JISC Developing Digital Literacies projects blog roundup

Digital literacy vs. Information literacy In an interesting post on Reading’s Digitally Ready blog, Helen Hathaway notes that ‘digital literacy’ often has a functional skills definition: Much of the discussion on “digital literacy” seems to look at the plumbing of digital tools rather than the quality of the information flowing through them, or the nuts […]

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What’s up with evaluation for developing digital literacies?

by Jay Dempster, JISC Evaluation Associate Sound evaluation designs for developing digital literacies stem from projects achieving clarity in two aspects: first, having a strong sense of what they are trying to do, for whom (beneficiaries) and in what ways; and second, identifying relevant and valid ways of measuring outcomes related to those aims and […]

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Guardian live chat: Developing digital literacies in Higher Education

Last Friday a number of those involved with the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme participated in a Guardian live chat online event. Comments are now closed, but it’s worth going through the whole transcript. Some highlights are included below. Helen Beetham, a consultant for the JISC Digital Literacies programme commented: It’s easy to get hung […]

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Fascinating insight into technologies being used by the JISC Digital Literacies projects

Sheila MacNeill from JISC CETIS wrote a fascinating post earlier this week about some of the technologies being used by projects who are part of the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme. Interestingly, the larger bubbles (which indicate more planned use) all tend to have a social element to them. Sheila will be following up this […]

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Listen or watch again: Outputs from JISC ALLE session

Last Friday we had the privilege of welcoming Lyn Greaves and her colleagues at the University of West London to present some of the findings from their JISC-funded work on an Anytime Learning Literacies Environment (ALLE). Slides, audio and a recording of the Blackboard Collaborate session can be found below: [slideshare id=11172126&doc=lyngreavespresentationjiscwebinar-120120033440-phpapp01]   Listen to […]

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Book now: Outcomes from JISC-funded ALLE project session

After the success of the Visitors and Residents session before Christmas, we’re excited to announce another equally-exciting (and free!) session for which booking is now open. Lyn Greaves from the University of West London will share the findings of the JISC-funded ALLE project. The session will run from 14:00 on Friday 20th January 2012 and […]