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A commentary on the Digital Britain White PaperTRANSCRIPT
Digital BritainDigital BritainImplications for Adult Implications for Adult
LearningLearning
Alastair ClarkAlastair Clark
OverviewOverview
•Digital Britain’ and all that surrounds it
•Learning in a Digital Britain
•Learning for a Digital Britain
•Challenges and opportunities for those who
support adult learning
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16 June 2009
Chapter 2: Being Digital
Chapter 3a: A Competitive Digital Communications
Infrastructure
Chapter 3b: Radio: Going Digital
Chapter 4: Creative Industries in the Digital World
16 June 2009
Chapter 2: Being Digital
Chapter 3a: A Competitive Digital Communications
Infrastructure
Chapter 3b: Radio: Going Digital
Chapter 4: Creative Industries in the Digital World
Chapter 5: Public Service Content in Digital Britain
Chapter 6: Research, Education and Skills for Digital
Britain
Chapter 7: Digital Security and Safety
Chapter 8: The Journey to Digital Government
Chapter 9: Delivering Digital Britain 225
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Digital Britain: Attitudes towards internet content among adults
Digital Britain Summit Children’s Panel output
Intellectual Property Office - Copyright in a digital world: What role for a Digital Rights Agency?
Fostering creative ambition in the UK Digital Economy
Unconference Reports
Twitter Feed
Review of ICT User Skills
Report of the Digital Britain Media Literacy Working Group
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Learning in a Digital Britain
Learning for a Digital Britain
Britain is not Digital because of government policy
The policy is seeking to influence what would happen anyway.
How we can we make a difference for How we can we make a difference for our learners:our learners:
A collective voice at national level.
Local strategic decisions which take
account of Digital Britain.
Learning Learning IN IN a a
Digital BritainDigital Britain
Learning in a Digital BritainLearning in a Digital Britain
Digital technologies are fundamentallychanging the behaviours that we associatewith teaching and learning, systemicallyaffecting the infrastructures that supportboth formal and informal lifelong learning.
Connections and Content Connections and Content
Speed demo
Rights to use digital contentRights to use digital content
.
The response from the educational The response from the educational communitycommunity
Can education provider commit to produce Open Educational resources?
Are Adult Community Learning Are Adult Community Learning
providers harnessing technology?providers harnessing technology?
A majority reported access to a learning platform although many made the distinction between access and use!
36% of trained e-Guides surveyed use e-learning materials at least once a week.
Non e-Guides used e-learning less.
How well is technology harnessed for How well is technology harnessed for
offender learning?offender learning?
Prison issues such as security, escorts to class, churn, overcrowding etc were barriers for OLASS staff
HoLS reported access to a wide range of technologies for their own, staff and learner use
Majority of HoLS reported lack of access to intranet for learners as an ongoing issue
Learning Learning FOR FOR
a a Digital BritainDigital Britain
Digital life skills entitelmentDigital life skills entitelment
• First Steps online • Use a computer to safely enter, access
and communicate information.
www.myguide.gov.uk
Independent Review of ICT User Skills – Morris June 2009
Independent Review of ICT User Skills – Morris June 2009
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QualityCost
NIACE view
Skills for employmentSkills for employment
And finally.....And finally.....
Learning in Digital Britain
• Access to content
• Citizen’s Voice
• Are providers e mature?
Learning for a digital Britain
• 17 Million UK
Digitally Excluded
• A large part of the workforce of 2020 are already at work!
