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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Chapter 2: Being Digital

Chapter 3a: A Competitive Digital Communications

Infrastructure

Chapter 3b: Radio: Going Digital

Chapter 4: Creative Industries in the Digital World

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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

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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!

alastair.clark@niace.org.ukalastair.clark@niace.org.uk

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