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Presenters
Dr Jane Secker – Associate Professor Educational Development, LEaD
Dr Julie Voce – Head of Digital Education and Deputy Director, LEaD
Helen Kempster – Deputy Director Careers and Employability
Workshop
This session helps staff to plan how to engage students in developing their digital literacies and the graduate attributes as part of their programme of study. Too often these skills are an after thought or bolted onto a degree, through an employability module. In this session we consider how to weave them into programmes and modules so that they are engaging for students, but also prepare them for their professional and personal lives in the future. This fosters inclusivity by ensuring that all students have the opportunity to develop these skills as part of their time at City St George’s.
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape and considering the current social and economic context, equipping students with digital literacies is important for supporting their academic success and future employability; however, Jisc (2024) report that only 37% of UK HE students feel they have access to development opportunities to build their digital skills. One way we can support the development of student digital literacies is to embed this into the curriculum as part of a broader integration of the University’s graduate attributes (Butler, 2025). These critical abilities will help prepare our students for the workplace, but also for living in a digital society.
This will be an interactive, collaborative workshop designed to support academic staff in integrating our Graduate Attributes and Digital Literacies frameworks into teaching and curriculum design. It will be a chance to discuss why these are important elements of programmes and to examine how they are relevant to your own discipline. You will work in small groups to identify opportunities to embed these abilities into your own programmes in meaningful ways. This session will also provide practical strategies and resources to help you equip students with the key skills they need for future success.
Graduate Attributes are listed on the City St Georges website and are now part of the module specification templates and programme templates. We will look at how these overlap with City’s Digital and Information Literacy framework. We will be using co-design as part of the workshop, so that staff can see how these abilities are relevant in their own field or discipline and provide feedback on the frameworks.
During the workshop, participants will:
- Review and discuss the Graduate Attributes and Digital Literacies frameworks and their relevance to student success in your own discipline.
- Identify opportunities to embed these frameworks into teaching, learning, and curriculum design using a co-design approach.
- Apply practical strategies to integrate key employability and digital literacy skills into their modules.
- Explore a range of resources and support available from Careers & Employability and LEaD.
- Collaborate with colleagues to share ideas and develop action plans for implementation
References
Jisc (2024) Student Digital Experiences Survey Report 2024. Available at: https://digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk/reports-and-briefings/our-reports/2023-24-uk-higher-education-students-digital-experience-insights-survey-findings/ (Accessed 3 April 2025)
Butler, B (2025) Graduate Attribute and Socially Responsible Professionals. Worskhop Presented at 6th National Forum on Socially Responsible Professions. City University. January 2025. Available: https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2025/january/6th-national-symposium-on-developing-socially-responsible-professionals/programme (Accessed 3 April 2025)
