The Digital University in the Modern Age: A proposed framework for strategic

The Digital University: What is it? How do we achieve it? The notion of a Digital University seems to be gaining traction within institutions, however we have observed that it is being used in a very narrow context, mainly relating to digital technology and infrastructure e.g. repositories and/or VLEs. The exploration of the term Digital University offers the potential to explore central issues for strategic development in a more holistic manner. Digital literacy is also a term that, although increasingly being used in HE, is still not commonplace; and again suffers from narrowly focussed discussions particularly relating to computer science related skills and not as a developing set of wider ranging competences. We believe that digital literacy is an extension of information literacy- one cannot exist without the other. So, the "literacy " of the digital university is the literacy of information. This in turn raises wider social issues of digital inclusion and the role universities can play in the wider community. Figure one identifies our key constructs and provides a model of their interrelationship