Professionalism in the Digital Environment (PriDE)

Project sponsor: Gwen van der Velden

Project manager: Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou

Project officer: Vic JenkinsProject officer: Nitin ParmarProject officer (Dissemination): Sarah Turpin

Project Adviser: Matt Benka

Aims and objectives

• Establish an institutional vision for the development of digital literacies

• Embed digital literacies at the core of the institution’s strategic planning process

• Engage students in the process as change agents

• Map how disciplinary differences and cultures shape the development of digital literacies

• Explore how institutional structures and processes enable and/or hinder the embedding of digital literacies

• Wide and effective dissemination

Faculty Learning

Community

Faculty Learning

Community

Faculty Learning

Community

School Learning

Community

Division for Lifelong

Learning

InstitutionalLearning

Community

UKOLN

VITAE

SCAP

STUDENTS UNION

PriDE Project Team

PriDE Steering Group

ETC

Student engagement

Faculty Learning Communities• Faculty of Engineering and

Design• Faculty of Humanities and

Social Sciences• Faculty of Science • School of Management

Define and articulate ‘digital literacies’ in the disciplines

Audit and carry out needs analysis for students/staff

“A digitally literate person in the Faculty of Engineering and Design should be proficient in

retrieving, managing, evaluating, sharing, presenting relevant information, supported by

access to the appropriate hardware and software.”

Initial outputs and findings from the FLCs

“A digitally literate person in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science is critically and

ethically aware, confident in engaging in a wide array of digital practices, resources/tools and

academic and professional environments, and in establishing coherent identities.”

Next steps: analysing disciplinary differences

• Disciplines focussing on different skills• Different priorities within the skill sets• Variations in language used to describe digital literacies• Skills or practice• Levels of granularity of skills

Perceived provision of support and development

Development and importance of DL attributes

Support and development channels for staff

Learning in the disciplines

What might this mean for learning and teaching in the disciplines?

http://digilitpride.wordpress.com/

Professionalism in the Digital Environment (PriDE)