Digital Literacy

Our graduates will be confident users of advanced technologies; they will lead others, challenging convention by exploiting the rich sources of connectivity digital working allows

We aim to create distinctive University of Wolverhampton graduates who are digitally literate which can be defined as follows:

Digitally Literate- our graduates will be confident users of advanced technologies; they will lead others, challenging convention by exploiting the rich sources of connectivity digital working allows.

Digital literacy links and resources

• Blended Learning and Digital Literacy in Learning Works
  Ideas and curriculum design guidelines for including the Digital Literacy graduate
• The Blended Learning targets and developing the Graduate Attribute of Digital Literacy for all Undergraduate modules in Learning Works
• ePDP guidelines for Learning Works
  Information about how to ‘design in’ ePDP during Learning Works.
• A useful document on what is meant by digital literacy and what this might mean for courses from Oxford Brookes -  A Mapping of Graduate Attributes for a Digital Age at Brookes
• Self-evaluation of digital literacy
  This check list of useful digital skills can be used by students and staff to affirm their level of digital literacy and/or as a diagnostic tool to highlight areas for further work.

All subjects will want to interpret Digital Literacy in their own ways and the definition is open-ended enough to allow this.

Courses need to look at inclusion into their curriculum of aspects of the following:

1.  the ‘e’ aspects of the learning process, as in the Blended Learning entitlements – so that digital literacy is being developed through the process of engagement with ‘e’ materials, tasks, Personal Development Planning and collaborative learning;
2. specific, hopefully cutting edge technologies, software and the skills of their use – ready for employment; and
3. development of information literacy capability

For those students who are not digital natives and need IT Skills development Alison is an interactive online service that provides free training courses where you can develop your skills and knowledge.

References

Please visit the Reference page for all Blended Learning references.