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"This page collates resources for conducting a baseline review of digital literacy at an institutional level, as carried out by the 12 institutional projects and 10 professional associations of the JISC Developing Digital Literacies (DDL) programme. These materials are freely available to other institutions and professional bodies for repurposing and reuse.   This page also collates findings from that baseline process. Although a wide range of institutions and professional bodies were involved, these findings are not necessarily generalisable to other institutions of further and higher education. There is no substitute for carrying out a local audit and building consensus for local recommendations."

"You've all heard there's no such thing as bad publicity. On the internet this is doubly true. When you link to a website - regardless of the reason - this strengthens its position in search engines. This means that a bad review of a website makes it more popular. When you are discussing or alerting others to a website that promotes a fraud, scam, cult or other questionable business and you link to that site, search engines will (after a while) improve the offending site's rank. Therefore, more people will find these shady websites, and will be exposed to their content without getting the proper context. That's where donotlink comes in. With donotlink.com, you can link to sites without giving them "Google juice". Using donotlink.com instead of linking to questionable websites directly will prevent your links from improving these websites' position in search engines."

Document from UK's Quality Assurance Agency describing its key themes for the next 2 years. Digital literacy is one and it has some detail on what that means for institutions and embedding within the curriculum.

"Hear how digital scholarship could transform publications, offering the promise of greater engagement, wider dispersion, and deeper learning."