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Four ESRC-funded research seminars promoting new research into digital literacy practices in post-school education - October 2009 to March 2011

These seminars will be conducted by researchers and others who have been involved in four recent publicly-funded projects: Digital Literacies in Higher Education (Open University); Learning Literacies for a Digital Age (Glasgow Caledonian U); Literacies for Learning in Further Education' (Lancaster and Stirling Universities); Putting Web 2.0 to work - new pedagogies for new learning spaces' project (Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde).

First seminar: Friday October 16th 2009, Edinburgh University
 

Theme: The relation of new media practices to traditional literacy practices in the academy and the professions (See Menu on left for programme)

Update October 22nd 2009

Second seminar: Monday March 1st 2010, Glasgow Caledonian University
 

Theme: Digital texts and practices in formal and informal contexts and the transfer of learning across boundaries

Third seminar: Thursday 14th & Friday 15th October 2010, Open University
 

Theme: Methodologies for research in literacy and learning in digital contexts

Fourth seminar: (March 2011 date to be arranged), Lancaster University
 

Theme: A Research Agenda for Literacy in the Digital University

Contacts:

Robin Goodfellow (series organiser): r.goodfellow@open.ac.uk
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