Library: Digital Literacy: Resources for Staff

Introduction

There are many resources available on digital literacy and it can be confusing to know the best place to start.

We have gathered a range of links which we believe will be useful to help you understand more about digital literacy - whether this is understanding and assessing your own digital literacy skills; research and case studies from other institutions or examples of how to incorporate digital literacy skills into your curriculum.

Resources to use with students

The sites listed below will help you to create activities to use with students to help develop a range of digital literacy skills.

Designing curricula that develop students' digital capabilities
A serices of resources designed to help teaching staff and other professionals involved in curriculum design and review to think about current practice in the curriculum and to design appropriate new opportunities.
Digital literacy toolkit: Supporting Students
A section from the Jisc InfoNet toolkit on supporting students to use digital technologies effectively for learning and in employment-related contexts.
Evaluating digital services: a Visitors and Residents approach
A toolkit developed from the Visitors and Residents (V&R) project which explored what motivates different types of engagement with the digital environment for learning.
Being Digital: Skills for life online (Open University)
A package of activities from the Open University which covers the skills needed to be effective online
Digital literacy skills checklist
A tool from the Open University to allow you to assess your level of confidence in a range of digital skills.
Self-evaluation checklist
This checklist of digital skills (from the University of Wolverhampton) can be used to affirm your level of digital literacy and/or as a diagnostic tool to highlight areas for further work.

Resources for staff development

The following resources will help you understand more about digital literacy and assess and develop your own digital literacy skills

General Digital Literacy Resources collated by Jisc
A page on the Jisc Design Studio which is frequently updated with links to many resources, reports, papers and websites
Jorum Information and Digital Literacy collection
LLiDA: Learning Literacies in a Digital Age
Open University Digital Literacy Framework
Effective Learning for a Digital Age
A framework from Oxford Brookes as a way of understanding how learners can be developed so that they can study and learn effectively in technology rich environments
LSE Digital and Information Literacy Framework
A Taxonomy of Digital and Information Literacies
A toolkit from Oxford Brookes to help you think about the types of activities that students might engage with to develop digital and information literacies.
Sconul Digital Literacy resources
Sconul - 15 good practice case studies
Sconul: Seven pillars of information literacy through a digital literacy lens
Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy
An open access journal with a focus on articles that deal thematically with digital literacy and the use of ICT in educational settings.
Developing Digital Literacies and the Role of Institutional Support Services
Presentation by Sheila MacNeill, Assistant Director, University of Strathclyde, June 2012.
Jisc Webinar: Developing staff digital literacies
Slides from a webinar in March 2013.

What are you doing?

If you have discovered other digital literacy resources which you have found useful, or if you have successfully incorporated digital literacy activities into your modules we would love to hear what you are doing!

Tell us about your Digital Literacy activities