1. http://digidol.cardiff.ac.uk/ What are Welsh institutions doing to support the development of learners for a digital age? JISC Workshop : Developing Digital Literacy 4th November 2011 Digidol Project team: Joy Head Cathie Jackson Joe Nicholls Sarah Williamson Simon Wood

2. Learning Literacy as a driver for organisational change Learning Literacy is viewed as both a means and a goal

3. Whose responsibility is it to develop Learning Literacies? The simple answer... – it’s everyone’s responsibility – we are all capable of helping each other – but it depends on our awareness and understanding – It starts with the recognition that we have a need for these literacies Conversations are required to help people to understand what the various literacies mean to them in their situation and circumstance

4. Whose responsibility is it to develop Learning Literacies? In an organisation – there will always be some people who are better placed to create learning opportunities for others – sustainable institution-wide change starts in the hearts and minds of those who own and control the means for training and educating others – raise awareness and understanding in ways that are meaningful and relevant to those who have power to influence and make decisions – senior managers need to be convinced of the value of developing learning literacies - the contribution it can make to achieving strategic aims has to be acknowledged – to get buy in that dependency has to be obvious to all concerned

5. Institutional drivers for change Exploit top-down and bottom-up drivers that determine or impact on educational practice Top-down: – respond to and inform (educate) senior managers – respond to strategic aims, actions plans and policies – work in conjunction with established formal business processes Bottom-up: – identify and build on existing successful initiatives – disseminate and link-up pockets of good practice – work with those who get it! – and build community Make the join!

6. Strategic Drivers : Education Strategy http://learning.cf.ac.uk/strategies/

7. Partnership with students

8. Where to focus time and effort? First identify existing provision across the institution for the development of staff and students Centralised (under the control of the Directorates: HR, IT, Library, Registry) versus decentralised (e.g., under the control of Schools, Student’s Union) Official (endorsed by a governing body) versus unofficial (standalone) educational processes and practices For sustainable change target processes that are already established and officially recognised - and which ideally have impact across the institution – work with those who own and control them – n.b. people are protective of their patch, so dance to their tune! – consider how you’re going to demonstrate added value to them

9. Learning Literacy Bridging the knowledge gap between tasks and services Staff and Students Service Providers Digidol Project Developing Digital Literacy

10. PALET Project : The Programme Approval Lean Electronic Toolkit http://blogs.cf.ac.uk/palet/

11. Curriculum Design: controlling context Discipline/subject knowledge is what people are really interested in and it is what motivates and sustains learning Learning literacies are a means to an end – a socially grounded cognitive toolset – and thus has to be nurtured through ways that are context appropriate and fit for purpose The aim of educators is to engineer opportunities so that the learning literacy component becomes a seamless means to enabling the study of what the learner finds interesting A formal process for designing a curriculum or learning activity enables educators to take direct control over the context in which the opportunity to develop learning literacies arises That’s why it is important to target the curriculum design process as the mechanism for ensuring exposure to opportunities to develop learning literacies and so that they are continually presented to learners throughout their studies

12. Information Literacy at Cardiff University Library based initiative running for many years Subject Librarians work with academics University Information Literacy Group Significant impact and success across the institution Embedded in undergraduate and postgraduate courses, Postgraduate Certificate for University Learning and Teaching - Information Literacy resource Bank – open access resources - Host the Welsh Information Literacy Project - Much already achieved for the Digidol project to build upon - Exploring unified approach to information and digital literacy

13. Decentralised initiatives Student Union - run course for Certificate of Professional Development Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning - Wide range of learning to learn courses School of Biosciences - ‘Shadow Modules’ run by students School of Social Sciences - CPD managed by students

14. The challenge... Of all the potential points of intervention, where is time and effort best placed to bring about sustainable change for the development of learning literacy in staff, and in students?

15. Digital Literacy Workshops How are institutions implementing strategies and policies for developing learners for a digital age? Recommendations from the SLiLDA case studies Available under a Creative Commons license from the JISC Design Studio http://bit.ly/jiscdiglit http://bit.ly/jiscdiglit