JISC Project - Worcester College of Technology Digital Literacy
This is the link to the project bid JISC have:
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
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
Deeper Investigation
Information Seeking: Students
Rational and planning behind the full information Seeking Investigation
Credible Published Source Task
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
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
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
Evaluation - Viv Bell's work in progress, thoughts from course team has been uploaded into files area.
Dissemination Files
Nottingham E-FAIR PPT (21st June 2012)
Notts handout -HE Expectations
Webinar 18th March 2013 - Powerpoint
Other dissemination info