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Embedding Digital Literacy at Leeds Metropolitan University:resourcing the curriculum by Erin Nephin
1. Embedding Digital Literacy at Leeds
Metropolitan University:
Resourcing the Curriculum
Erin Nephin
Library Academic Support Team
Manager
2. In this Session
• How the Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Curriculum review gave opportunities to
embed digital literacy;
• The implementation our Core Content
Modules with the launch of digital literacy as a
graduate attribute;
• Use of core modules by academic staff;
• Feedback on lessons learned
3. The story so far…
• Definition of “Digital Literacy” at Leeds
Metropolitan
• The Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Curriculum reviews
• Initial staff support and development
• Employability and Digital Literacy– Year 1
4. Initial Phase (DL and Employability)
• Aimed at students, as part of the
Employability and Enterprise Fortnight (now
“Futures Fest”)
• Sessions on using research skills in
employment and how digital literacy can
increase employability
• Delivered by Academic Librarians, with input
from Academics and Careers.
6. Needs identified in Phase 2:
• Academic Staff requested help in promoting
and improving their own digital literacy skills
• Need for greater use of non-print based
resources as part of the refocused curriculum
• Opportunity for Libraries and Learning
Innovation to meet these needs and promote
existing services
8. Need for Generic Modules
• UG and PG Reviews indicated common
modules which could benefit from a “Core
set” of resources
• Project was proposed and set up to address
this via the introduction of generic modules in
Research Methods and Managing Projects
aimed at staff
9. Project Group Formed
• Chaired by Associate Director of LLI
• Members included:
– Head of Curriculum Development and Review
– Academic Staff
– Learning Technologists
– Academic Librarians
12. Pilot and Promotion
• Basic design and initial content reviewed by
staff involved in research methods and project
management modules
• Promoted via hands-on “road-shows” and at
the Course Leaders conference where the
modules were demonstrated and feedback
was obtained
13. Feedback so far
• Well received, content has already been
duplicated in a number of modules and is the
spine of a new distance course
• Word of mouth spread quickly, with initial
cohort of academics promoting and training
colleagues in the use of the modules
• Requests received for involvement in future
modules
14. Next Steps
• Online Learning Resources Strategy
• New Digital Skills workshops
• Creation of new “Little Book of Project
Management” & interactive resource
• New modules in Strategic Management and
Introduction to Marketing to be created in
2013/14.
15. Reaching Further
• The possibility of collaboration with other
librarians in the sharing/creation of resources
• Facilitation of exchange of “hands-on”
activities for use (and re-use) in the classroom
Is there a need for a core-content modules
amongst Academic Librarians?
How we arrived at our definitionUG/PG curriculum review; ALs as global reviewers; huge opportunity to embed digital literacy skills development within the curriculum, and also to ensure that resource lists were up to date, and reflected our electronic as well as our print contentTypes of staff development we offered during the period of the reviewWe already had some good content, and were well embedded in some areas; ALs were able to point to work they were already doing with other curriculum areas and extend this across the pieceInitial evaluation – i-book
Centre for Learning and Teaching – comprehensive guidance on how to embed DLS4L – lens on graduate attributes, including DLRepository – points to GAs and gathers together materials that are already in there
