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SUPPORTING RESOURCES

Articles & Reports

Alexander, Bryan., Samantha Adams Becker, Michele Cummins, and Courtney Hall Giesinger. Digital Literacy in Higher Education, Part II: An NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief. Vol. 3.4. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium, 2017.
Almekinder, Annie, et al. "Digital Citizenship + Liberal Arts = Students Empowered for Life." Educause Review, June 5, 2017.
Bryn Mawr College. Bryn Mawr Digital Competencies Framework. 2016.
Carretero, Stephanie, Riina Vuorikari, and Yves Punie. DigComp 2.1: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens with Eight Proficiency Levels and Examples of Use. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2017.
Jisc. Building Digital Capabilities: The Six Elements Defined. Bristol, UK: Joint Information Systems Committee, 2017.
Sparrow, Jennifer. "Digital Fluency: Preparing Students to Create Big, Bold Problems." Educause Review, March/April 2018: 54.
University of Mary Washington. Incorporating Digital Fluency at UMW. March 2017.
Wing, Jeannette M. "Computational Thinking." ACM 49.3 (March 2006): 33-35.

Books

Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics by Brett D. Hirsch (ed.)
Publication Date: 2012

The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors’ experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field’s cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions.
The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies by Doug Belshaw
Publication Date: 2014

What are "digital literacies"? Why are they important? How can I develop them both personally and in other people? These are some of the questions that The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies by Doug Belshaw seeks to address. Read the dissertation on which the book is based.
Robot-Proof by Joseph E. Aoun
Call Number: LB 2322.2 A68 2017

Publication Date: 2017

How can higher education prepare students for their professional lives when professions themselves are disappearing? In Robot-Proof, Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun proposes a way to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover—to fill needs in society that even the most sophisticated artificial intelligence agent cannot.
Inside Higher Ed Review - Inside Higher Ed Interview with Joseph E. Aoun - Joseph Aoun in conversation with Professor Martin Williams

The library copy of The Future of Learning: How Colleges Can Transform the Educational Experience, published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, will be linked here when it arrives. More about this report

Websites

Association of College & Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
This Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education grows out of a belief that information literacy as an educational reform movement will realize its potential only through a richer, more complex set of core ideas. This Framework served as the guiding document in the creation of the Bryn Mawr competencies and guides academic librarians across the world in designing effective instruction around information and digital fluency.
DigComp - Digital Competence Framework for Citizens
The European Digital Competence Framework, also known as DigComp, offers a tool to improve citizen's digital competence based on twenty-one competences (also called the conceptual reference model) and eight proficiency levels.
Inside Higher Ed - Inside Digital Learning
At “Inside Digital Learning,” the term is used to describe the complex landscape of education options enhanced, influenced or enabled by digital technology tools. Includes link to subscribe to their weekly Inside Digital Learning newsletter.
Jisc - Building Digital Competencies
Jisc is a not-for-profit organization providing UK universities and colleges with shared digital infrastructure and services. The “Building Digital Capabilities” service aims to equip individuals to live, learn and work in a digital society and to help organizations consider the extent to which the culture and infrastructure of an institution enables and motivates digital practices. For more, see Jisc case studies and guides.
Liberal Arts Collaborative for Digital Innovation (LACOL)
LACOL leverages the power of consortial relationships to promote excellent and innovative teaching, learning, and research in the liberal arts, with a special emphasis on utilizing and adapting emerging technologies. It prioritizes collaboration among its member schools, focusing on projects that they can accomplish jointly that would be less robust or impossible for any of them to undertake alone. LACOL encourages experimentation to develop, share, and assess the most effective modes of digital teaching and learning.