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Librarians are key players and stakeholders in the My Learning Essentials skills support program, the University of Manchester's vehicle for supporting collaborative efforts between library staff, trainers, academics and others across the University. MLE is a blended program that combines an "open" strand of self-directed instruction through online resources and drop-in skills clinics with a "curriculum-linked" strand of class sessions and embedded instruction. Strong ties between those who create, deliver and support the MLE allow for continuous development of the program and support for students. Collaboration at the University of Manchester's Library is well thought-out and extensive, and takes place at every stage, from the design of the calendar of support for the year, to the end-of-term assessment of each strand.

Digitally Ready is a JISC funded project, funded under the Developing Digital Literacies programme Our project will develop a holistic and inclusive approach drawing on both the strong history of successful JISC and general e-learning project delivery and harnessing our expertise, resources and evidence base to: * Baseline our digital competence, needs and desires using JISC audit tools;* Develop a strategy for the University of Reading to ensure all members of the University have the digital literacies for their current role and have access to resources to ensure they are Digitally Ready for their future and to better support the University's aims and objectives;* Develop change management processes to ensure realisation of the strategy;* Begin implementation of the strategy;* Document our methods so that they can be applied to other institutions and lead to further areas of study.

Digitally Ready is a JISC funded project, funded under the Developing Digital Literacies programme Our project will develop a holistic and inclusive approach drawing on both the strong history of successful JISC and general e-learning project delivery and harnessing our expertise, resources and evidence base to: * Baseline our digital competence, needs and desires using JISC audit tools;* Develop a strategy for the University of Reading to ensure all members of the University have the digital literacies for their current role and have access to resources to ensure they are Digitally Ready for their future and to better support the University's aims and objectives;* Develop change management processes to ensure realisation of the strategy;* Begin implementation of the strategy;* Document our methods so that they can be applied to other institutions and lead to further areas of study.

A Lancaster University student looks at the pros and cons of Wikipedia in the Guardian. Includes extracts from interviews with two Lancaster academics.

At Cardiff University, the Digidol team are investigating how what they call "digital literacy" can be embedded in all staff and students across all levels and areas of the university. The project is one of 12 being funded at different institutions by JISC, an expert on information and digital technologies for education and research, and I interviewed members of the team for one of a series of podcasts for the organisation recently.

Welcome to the Digital Literacy @ University of Worcester Blog This blog for Digital Literacy, bringing you interesting pieces of information encouraging all to join a community interested in discussing the impact technology is or might have on our lives whether we are students or staff. Exploring Open Education Resources - cost, quality, best practice frameworks.Running an annual survey for Digital Literacy (with a prize) to help us find out what you want, need and aspire to:Exploring social networking virtual worlds for administrative, teaching and communication affordances.Exploring online lunchtime seminars for staff.

Project Digidol aims to embed processes and practices that enable the development of Digital Literacy in all staff and students across all areas and levels of the (Cardiff) University. It is understood that this will be as much about changing attitudes and beliefs, as it will be about realising practical knowledge and skills. Organisational change and effective change management will be key aspects of the project.

Over the past 18 months I've been having a series of discussions with Bill Johnston (a colleague of mine here at Strathclyde) around notions information and digital literacy and of what it means to be a digital university.

UBLIN, Ohio, USA, 12 June 2012-JISC, the UK's expert on information and digital technologies for education and research, has agreed to continue funding a third phase of "Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?" a UK-US partnership between the University of Oxford and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., in collaboration with the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. The project is led by David S. White (U. Oxford-TALL), and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. (OCLC Research).

A film outlining the use of film technology in university teaching by Dr Jon Anderson, Cardiff University in the School of City and Regional Planning

In the sixth episode of our online radio programmes - JISC On Air - we are exploring how universities and colleges can help teaching staff, researchers, support and administrative staff to develop their digital literacies - those capabilities which prepare an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society. In part two of the show, we will be looking at how digital literacy underpins the academic success and employability of students.

Today the Guardian will launch a campaign to improve IT and computer science teaching in schools and universities - and we want input from as many teachers, lecturers, pupils, parents and developers as possible

The aim of this project is to produce an online module to support the use of OER materials that will focus of on the ways ICTs/digital technologies can support teaching, learning and administration. The OER that are created, collated and re-purposed will be made available through a creative commons licence. The OER (unit resources) can be used individually as well as accredited by universities in order to gain 30 M-level credits and can form an online module 'Digital Literacy and Creativity'.

 "Etextbooks and online learning communities are just a few of the ways colleges and universities are dabbling in digital. This graphic breaks it down."   Excellent Infographic looking at the electronic landscape in education including comparision of iPad and Kindle Fire, VLEs and reinventing the textbook. 

Morning keynote delivered at the Metropolitan New York Library Council's (METRO) Annual Conference (METROCON13) by Renee Hobbs, Professor and Founding Director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island. 15 January 2013 - Link to the slideshare presentation is available on the page. Some interesting discussion of literacies, visual literacies definitions of DL and how libraries can measure their impact

In combination with academic literacies, digital and information literacies represent a broad spectrum of knowledge and skills that ideally should be developed as an integral part of subject specific learning. The challenge at an institutional level is helping academic staff and students achieve this in a manner that is fully integrated and sustainable. As part of the JISC funded Digidol Project (http://digidol.cardiff.ac.uk) at Cardiff University work is being done to create a common framework and methodology to enable professional services staff, academic staff and students to arrive at a shared understanding of what literacies are required and how they can best be realised through meaningful learning and teaching practices.

"Your brain's important, but not all that important," said Dr. James Paul Gee, a professor at Arizona State University and a leading authority on literacy and the potential of educational games, during a talk at the Learning and Brain conference last week.

From the outset, the PriDE project will be interested in exploring what it means to be 'digitally literate' within the subject disciplines. The Faculty Learning Communities will this discuss this idea in their creative think tank sessions with the aim of articulating a digital literacy statement. These statements will then be shared with the wider community on this blog as one of the project outputs. In time, these statements will be joined by a list of Faculty digital literacy attributes and, potentially, some more specific lists of attributes for particular stakeholder groups - learners, academics, support staff.

"The 2011 ECAR National (USA) Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology gathered stratified data from "3,000 college students from 1,179 colleges and universities" via an opt-in invitation-only online questionnaire, in June 2011."

The e-Learning Programme has recently produced a series of radio shows on how digital technologies are supporting institutional practices. These shows offer an informative and engaging discussion with leading experts around how technology is supporting colleges and universities in addressing the challenges they currently face.