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Organisational Digital Capability: Creating a proactive win, win, win approach for staff and students Helen Beetham and Clare Killen
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2. Choice of four carousel activities
Session overview
An opportunity to explore the Jisc resources to support digital capability development and discuss:
How can universities and colleges deepen “digital know-how” and build digital talent?
Correlations between digital capability development, student-staff partnership work and student employability
Choice of four carousel activities
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3. One word challenge: Your aims
What do you hope to achieve by developing student and staff digital capabilities?
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4. Why digital know-how is so important
Technology is changing both working processes and the nature of work and knowledge practices.
Educational and wider working environments
The way achievement is demonstrated and recorded
Knowledge practices
Organisations need both general and specialised digital capabilities
Recruit, retain, reward and recognise digital talent
The need for digitally capable leadership
Digital capability is intrinsic to professional practice, identity and learning
Digital wellbeing is a critical issue
H Beetham (2015)
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5. Acknowledged challenges
“There are challenges in matching the speed of change in the education sector, for example in changing curricula and training, to the speed of demand, and the rapidly changing skill sets needs in the economy and society.”
Digital skills for the UK economy, Ecorys UK (January 2016)
“Digital technology is reshaping how today’s society thinks, works, learns and develops.”
Liz Williams, Review of publicly funded digital qualifications (February 2016)
“Gaining cross-disciplinary digital skills is the lifeblood of deeper learning outcomes that lead to fruitful careers.”
Digital Literacy: An NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief (October 2016)
“While 81.5% of university students feel that digital skills will be important in their chosen career, only half believe that their courses prepare them well for the digital workplace..”
The Student digital experience 2017 tracker: the voice of 22,000 UK learners (June 2017)
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6. Defining organisational digital capability
“The extent to which the identity, culture and infrastructure of an institution enables and motivates digital practices” (Beetham/Jisc 2017)
All resources available from:
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7. Exploring the resources
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Activity 1: What are organisational digital capabilities and how can these enable individual development? Discuss the barriers and enablers to driving forward digital capability in your organisation.
Activity 2:
Your digital profile
Look at one of 3 digital capability profiles (HE/FE/learner)
What new digital capability do you/your learners need to develop?
Activity 3:
Case studies of successful interventions at organisational level
How can interventions at an organisational level facilitate growth in individual digital capabilities and have a positive impact beyond skills development.
Activity 4:
Curriculum mapping
Identify opportunities for integrating digital capabilities within your course/unit of study.
20 min per cycle/2 cycles of activities
The aim of these 4 activities is to identify strategies and practices that can be used at scale across institutions to ensure digital capability development is open to all and not restricted to pockets of innovators.
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8. Feedback from activities
How can universities and colleges deepen “digital know-how” and build digital talent?
What are the correlations between digital capability development, student-staff partnership work and student employability?
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9. Supporting organisational approaches
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Online guide: Developing organisational approaches to digital capability with accompanying briefing
Community of practice (next event 14 or 16 November 2017)
Suite of training offers to support the development of digital capabilities (Autumn 2017 – 2018)
Discovery tool (pilot phase with 14 institutions nearing completion, further developments to platform expected Autumn 2017)
Developing successful student-staff partnerships
Quick guide on Developing your students’ employability skills through technology or more in-depth Technology for employability report with accompanying toolkit.
Our guide includes:
Organisational digital capability in context
The digitally-capable organisation
Building digital professionalism
Strategic steps towards organisational digital capability
Case studies: journeys towards digital capability
Further resources
Organisation framework
Auditing digital capability: a tool for educational organisations
Digital capability checklist for organisations
Digital capability checklist for curriculum developers
Journeys towards digital capability – 15 case studies from colleges and universities
Community of practice
Launched in May 2017 with 90 delegates at our event from across FE and HE
See our summary of event
Join mailing list
Next event taking place on 14 or 16 November 17
The discovery tool supports individual staff working in universities, colleges and training providers to reflect on their digital capabilities
It presents a series of reflective questions that relate to the different elements of capability we have defined
Questions are quiz-like and non-judgemental
By answering the questions, staff are made aware of digital skills they already have and new ones they might try
New platform ready for open pilot late 2017
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10. Follow developments Join Digital capabilities Yammer group
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Join Digital capabilities Yammer group
Visit project page
See project blog for updates on all new developments:
Follow #digitalcapability on Twitter
Join community of practice mailing list
Discovery tool
Mention current pilots of the tool and resource set
Digital capability community of practice: ‘Valuable for inspiring new ideas, making new contacts and for sharing resources.’
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11. Contact us digitalcapability@jisc.ac.uk Sarah Knight
Head of change: Student experience
Helen Beetham
Clare Killen
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