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Digital Dexterity: A Sustainable Model For Building Essential Skills For The Future Workforce, Carmel O'Sullivan, Alison Slocombe, Clare Mckenzie, Fiona Salisbury Aug 2019

Digital Dexterity: A Sustainable Model For Building Essential Skills For The Future Workforce, Carmel O'Sullivan, Alison Slocombe, Clare Mckenzie, Fiona Salisbury

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The importance of digital dexterity in achieving institutional and business missions led the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) to establish a Digital Dexterity Program in 2018. The aim of the CAUL Program was to ascertain the current state of play of digital literacies at member institutions and to establish best practice principles for developing the skills and understandings necessary for staff and students to become effective global citizens and lifelong learners. The Program consisted of three project teams tasked with developing resources that would provide:

  • a framework for the development of digital dexterity skills,
  • tools to assist CAUL members …