Dr Jane Secker is Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also Chair of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Information Literacy Group. 

This webinar gives an overview of digital literacy by providing a definition of the term and the key areas that it includes, and  discusses how digital literacy relates to other literacies.

Dr Secker then moves on to considers different digital literacy frameworks that can help libraries plan policies and strategies, and provides an overview of digital literacy programmes currently being offered by different organizations.

supporting materials

• Download presentation
• Watch the webinar on YouTube

related links

• Read the news item with a summary of the webinar
• Jane Secker's blog
• Links to different digital literacy frameworks: 
  • FutureLab
  • the revised JISC Digital Capabilities Model
  • Doug Belshaw's model
  • New Curriculum for Information Literacy put together by Secker herself and her colleague Emma Coonan 
• (blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl) Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy (SADL) Project at the London School of Economics
• Free “Being digital  - skills for life online” course by the Open University in the UK