Enhancing students' digital skills with impact: the "Digital Literacy" project.

In line with UK strategic priorities (UK Department for Education 2019), the "Digital Literacy" project - supported by a DELTA (QAA) "Emerging Stronger Award" - aims to identify pockets of digital inequalities in students, to enhance their digital capacity and support digital literacy training for students and staff. The project addresses a number of areas highlighted in the RGU Teaching and Learning Framework: Technology Enabled Learning, Flexibility and Inclusion. RGU has a diverse and international student body and it is important to offer support to achieve digitally inclusive learning practices. This paper will offer an overview of the results of the digital literacy survey, which involved 371 students from six schools, and was based on work by Carretero et al. (2017) and the JISC Digital Capabilities Framework (2012). The survey addresses 11 themes (Everyday Participation as a Digital Citizen, ICT Proficiency, ICT Productivity/Use, Information Literacy, Digital Creation, Digital Innovation, Digital Research, Digital Communication, Digital Learning and Development, Digital Identity Management, Digital Wellbeing). The scale measures digital competences representing different levels of knowledge and self-sufficiency on the basis of performing specific digital tasks. Current work also involves the development of a digital skills toolkit with internal and external resources, and recommendations for learning and upskilling