Introduction and panel slides

Editor's Notes

• #8: Andrew Stalker Owen Freel Jason Miles Campbell
• #14: Jisc’s Building digital capability service provides: Our Discovery tool, an empowering first step for staff and students to reflect on their digital capabilities. It will help them identify current strengths and areas for development. On completion, your staff and students will receive a personalised report with suggested next steps and links to free resources that can help them develop further. And new this year, you can add your own training resources. For leaders, our organisational models set out what a digitally capable organisation might look like, and provide a step by step approach to help you wherever you are on your journey. Data dashboards provide a picture of how your staff and students feel about their digital skills and where further training may be beneficial. Our service website helps you to find practical advice and guidance, whether you are interested in your own (or your students) development, are supporting others or are leading change. Our community of practice is the place for staff and leaders to share experiences and spark ideas. Subscribing to the service will provide you with 2 priority places per organisation at each of our twice yearly events. If you’re looking for more, our range of discounted training courses take you further and provide the support that you and your staff might need We also offer expert consultancy to help you achieve your goals
• #15: Although has primarily been designed as a developmental tool, it does also provide anonymised data to institutions to support organisational planning for example where training could be most effectively targeted. These dashboards including data on completion rates, and capability ratings that can be broken down by dept & subject (for staff) and subject (students) Care needs to be taken around how this data is used – we have guidance to help institutions make sense of their data Scoring bands needs to be used with caution – as lower scores don’t necessarily mean ‘deficit’ Mainly useful for informing conversations: With HR and staff development about overall training and development needs With teaching staff about their confidence with digital teaching, learning and assessment and their development needs With IT and e-learning teams about support for specific systems and practices With budget holders about investing in staff development and services
• #24: So what are digital and how we can ensure students are developing these essential skills. Our work in this area began in 2008 (with the Llida study reviewing learning literacies), and the Dig lit programme (2011-2013). This research led to the development of the Jisc six elements of digital capability framework. It has been influential across the sector in informing how we describe and understand what digital capabilities are and is now underpins all our developments in the Building digital capability service. It starts from the perspective that digital capabilities are those that enable an individual to live, learn and work in a digital society. It provides one way of thinking about staff and student digital capabilities. It provides a single, generic description that everyone can relate to. It has been influential across the UK and further afield as a common language to further explore what this means for staff and studnets. It encompasses high level capabilities – around digital identity and wellbeing which focuses on developing your personal and professional identities; 4 core digital practices in the centre around communication and collaboration; teaching and learning; digital creation and problem solving; and information and data & media literacies. And the functional ICT skills which fall out of those higher level discussions above. We’ve been working with others including Microsoft, Google, Linkedin Learning and others to map their resources to the framework, as a way of aligning development opportunities with this model.