This report suggests design guidelines for incorporating e-learning strategies when designing for the development of discipline specific‐literacy that build upon student’s existing digital literacy skills.
They can be considered, regardless of discipline, when planning to use students’ existing digital skills for improving their discipline‐specific discourse.
Download the report:
Engaging first year university students in the discourse of their discipline through online writing projects (PDF, 500Kb)
Background:
A project completed in 2012, undertaken by The University of Auckland, to determine whether and how the existing digital literacy skills of General Education students could be utilised in order to develop new discipline-specific literacy.
Research report prepared by Nancy November and Karen Day.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa Regional Hub Project Fund (RHPF)