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JISC Project - Worcester College of Technology Digital Literacy

 

This is the link to the project bid JISC have:

https://jiscsupport-developingdigitalliteracies.pbworks.com/w/page/50542266/Project%20Plan%20-%20Worcester

 

Original Bid Document

 

Interim April 2012

Interim Oct 2012

 

 

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Baseline Studies

 

Baseline information has been gained from a range of perspectives and sources that will inform our knowledge and understanding of our college community profile and help identify any emerging key issues we may need to investigate further 

 

Baseline Reading

Overview of Digital Literacy Definitions and Interpretation in Literature

Key Literatures in Digital Generation (Terms referred to: Digital natives; digital immigrants; Millennials; GenX; Net Generation; Google Generation; Digital generation; Generation Y; Growing up digital)

Third Party Findings – Digital Literacy and the Expectations of FE

HE Expectations - SWOT feedback document

 

Baseline Case Study A

Just curious - the spectrum of understanding the term 'digital literacy' and associated terms

(Link to Audit Tool)

 

Baseline Case Study B

Baseline - Attribute Survey (Confidences/skills/Abilities/Usage) - self assessment

(Link to Audit Tool)
LINK TO DATA IN EXCEL WORKSHEET

 

Baseline Case Study C 

Students and Teachers - Perceptions about others digital literacy skills

(Link to Audit Tool) (interviews also conducted)

 

Baseline Case Study Pilot

Baseline - Pilot - The need to look closely at Information Literacy

 

Baseline Report: Landscape Review of College for Digital Literacy (Word DRAFT)

 

Other Useful Information - Landscaping:

Ownership of Technology (Small Scale Survey results) - conducted 6 months prior to Wordle project

 

Interesting Anecdote on assumptions of the digital skills of students and staff when using word 

Interesting Anecdote on the copy and paste habits of some learners
Initial Interviews prior to project start-up:
Study Centre Team - Nick Taylor
Learning Support Team - Jo Sliwa

Teacher - Peter Lewis

Existing Practice College VLE and Study Centres  - http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=ferl.aclearn.resource.id37249 

Improving Learning through Study Centre Environments - http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/page.aspx?o=263420  

Prior journal into Information Literacy writen in conjunction with Worcester College of Technology & University of Worcester - http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/article/view/PRA-V4-I1-2010-1 

Study Centre Video - Introducing our Study Centres at Induction

 

 

 

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Deeper Investigation

 

Information Seeking: Students

(Link to Audit Tool)

 

Rational and planning behind the full information Seeking Investigation

 

Book Task

 

Lottery Task

 

Newspaper Task

 

Weather Task

 

Video Task

 

Credible Published Source Task

 

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Staff Investigation: Skills to use technology for educational purposes

 

Staff survey 1 (trad learning theories, e-learning theories and 21st century google skills) Results from this survey

Staff survey 2

 

Interviews

 

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Implementing the support phase - OCN units, pilots and dissemination

 

Pilots of exisiting OCN units to meet our needs L3 ~(Wendy Parry - Head of Library Services/Study Centres)

 

OCN Units - Units that have been approved/awaiting approval

 

Student OCN Pilots Blog (Online Information Seeking) L2

Staff OCN Pilots Blog (Structuring a VLE) L2

 

Staff OCN pilot - 2nd cohort

 

Student Pilot OCN Online presence L2

Student focus group - online presence for e-portfolio (foundation degree)

 

Module Development - Blending traditional and online learning techniques (Helen & Richard)

Active Learning OCN unit ideas (Helen & Richard)

 

Google Age staff CPD sessions - disseminating the support need information literacy

 

PAL audit and raising digital literacy skills for PAL

 

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Evaluation progression Model  

 

Evaluation - Viv Bell's work in progress, thoughts from course team has been uploaded into files area.

 

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Dissemination Files

 

Nottingham E-FAIR PPT (21st June 2012)

Notts handout -HE Expectations 

Webinar 18th March 2013 - Powerpoint

Other dissemination info