{"id":3202,"date":"2014-03-24T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2014-03-24T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:30:42","slug":"a-review-of-literacy-in-the-digital-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/a-review-of-literacy-in-the-digital-university\/","title":{"rendered":"A Review of “Literacy in the Digital University”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Literacy in the Digital University: Critical Perspectives on Learning, Scholarship, and Technology<\/p>\n

Edited by Robin Goodfellow and Mary R. Lea<\/p>\n

Published by Routledge<\/p>\n

This is an edited collection authored by a range of academics predominantly from the UK. Contributing authors include some familiar names for instance Martin Oliver and Lesely Gourlay, Chris Jones, Alison Littlejohn, Helen Beetham and Lou McGill. The treatment is scholarly. Whilst drawn from practice and from empirical research, it definitely isn\u2019t a how to guide.\u00a0 However it is an important book that helps to advance the discussion of what digital literacies are, how they are understood and supported, and the implications of these issues.<\/p>\n

Some of the questions raised by the book Does use of plagiarism detection software suggest that we consider all students to be cheating unless proven otherwise? How do we understand students\u2019 behaviours who are regular users of Facebook, but reluctant users of the VLE? It doesn\u2019t provide any easy answers to these questions but it does make you think!<\/p>\n

This book will be of value to anyone who enjoys thinking deeply about digital scholarly practices. As the publisher correctly identifies it will be of interest to university teachers and researchers, educational developers and learning technologists, library staff, university managers and policy makers, and, not least, learners themselves, particularly those studying at post-graduate level.\u00a0 The book is published by Routledge\u00a0and costs \u00a324.99 in paperback: http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9780415537971\/<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Dr Liz Bennett, Senior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning
\nUniversity of Huddersfield<\/p>\n

If you enjoyed reading this article we invite you to\u00a0join the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)<\/a>\u00a0as an individual member, and to encourage your own organisation to join ALT as an organisational or sponsoring member.<\/p>\n

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