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Webinar 3: approaches to developing staff and students’ digital capabilities

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Next week I have my third webinar, this time delivered by Sarah Knight and Lisa Gray who work for Jisc. As with other sessions please do let me know by registering if you would like to attend and you are not taking my module. The session is open to all. Sarah and Lisa tell us more about their session:

We are experiencing unprecedented times with the changes the pandemic has brought to every aspect of our lives and the experience for all our staff and students.  The fact that the skills needed to thrive in an increasingly digital world will continue to evolve with each new technological innovation presents challenges for universities.

The speed of change and the widescale adoption of new technologies by businesses, governments and daily living means that the future workforce not only needs to be digitally capable but digitally confident and resilient.

At Jisc we have been tackling these challenges since 2008 through our research to better understand and support the development of digital capability for students and staff – the skills needed to live, learn and work in a digital society (Jisc, 2014). Work has included: the development of our digital capabilities framework (Jisc, 2017) which has provided a shared vocabulary to describe digital capabilities; a series of profiles that breakdown of the capabilities relevant to particular educational roles; a ‘discovery tool’ a first step for staff and students to reflect on their digital skills which generates a personalised report suggesting next steps and developmental resources; organisational models; and curriculum resources.

This session will provide an overview of our research and how universities are developing the digital capabilities of their staff and students in the UK.

Jisc Digital Capabilities by Sarah Knight and Lisa Gray

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Jisc Digital Capabilities

I was grateful to reconnect with Sarah Knight from Jisc, who joined me for a webinar with her colleague Lisa Gray yesterday to talk about the Institutional Approach towards Digital Literacies. The recording is now available and their slides. It’s interesting to see how Jisc have developed their thinking about supporting and developing both staff and student digital capabilities and how the partnership model is still an important way of supporting this.

I was also interested to hear about the Community of Practice they have set up and the meeting held at the University of Hertfordshire this week. You can find out more about the community by subscribing to their Jiscmail list. We have been using the free Jisc Digital Capabilities Discovery Tool on the module, but there are a number of features available in the subscription version that looked really interesting. Thanks for Sarah and Lisa for joining us and I hope to join them at their next event in May to share some of the ideas we have been developing on this module.