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New JISC Developing Digital Literacies briefing paper

The JISC e-Learning team are pleased to announce a new briefing paper as part of the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme. This is available in PDF format and can be downloaded from the following link: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/briefingpapers/2012/developing-digital-literacies.aspx Many thanks to Sarah Payton (@notyap) for her efforts in pulling this together.

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Crystallising Evaluation Designs – A Reality Check for Developing Digital Literacies

by Jay Dempster, JISC Evaluation Associate The JISC Developing Digital Literacies Programme team has been supporting its institutional projects to design and undertake a holistic evaluation. Projects are thinking critically about the nature, types and value of evidence as early indicators of change and several projects now have some useful visual representations of their project’s […]

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JISC on Air Radio Show – developing digital literacies for working in a digital world

In the seventh episode of our online radio programmes – JISC On Air – we are exploring how colleges and universities are developing digital literacies for working in a digital world. This is the second part of a two-part series, focusing on digital literacies. Part one is available here. In this show, Kim Catcheside, interviews […]

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[RECORDING] A History of Digital Literacy in the UK and EU

We were delighted to last week welcome Tabetha Newman and Sarah Payton to run a free, public webinar as part of the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme. In addition to being able to watch the recording within Blackboard Collaborate, we’ve also exported the webinar as video and audio files along with the chat transcript. You […]

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[RECORDING] Mozilla and web literacies

[slideshare id=12743732&doc=mozillawebmakers-120430061134-phpapp01] Last Friday we were privileged to have Erin Knight and Michelle Levesque from Mozilla run a free, public webinar as part of the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme. In addition to being able to watch the recording within Blackboard Collaborate, we’ve also exported the webinar as video and audio files along with the […]

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Digital literacies Publications and resources

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 […]