Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Pam McKinney here live blogging the final keynote from the LILAC conference featuring Professor  Alison Littlejohn, Dean of learning and teaching in the faculty of social sciences at the University of Glasgow.  Allison began by outlining the neo-liberalisation of the higher education sector, positioning students as consumers and the rise in importance of the national student survey.  Allison was involved with a project called “learning literacies in the digital age” which outlined the need for learning to focus on processes and literacies, not content. Allison discussed the power of MOOCs to disrupt education, and to give people the opportunity to learn in a different way, using digital technologies. 

Congratulations to the Information Literacy award winners announced at the LILAC conference in Nottingham, UK, last week. The Information Literacy Award 2019 winner was the Open University (OU) Library’s Live Engagement Team. "The winning team design and deliver live online teaching sessions to OU staff and students. They have a remit for experimenting with online technologies and new ways of engaging the OU community."

The Digital Award for Information Literacy 2019 went to Terry Charlton, for Newcastle University Library’s Online Learning Resources (see below).