Building digital capability

Our discovery tool (beta) has been designed to support individuals and managers in a range of roles by helping them to identify and reflect on their current digital capability and make plans to improve their capability using a customised play list of resources. We've also produced some guidance on how to use the discovery tool (pdf) ​and some FAQs (pdf) on the tool and associated resources which you may find helpful. 

We are currently piloting the discovery tool with fourteen universities and colleges to gather their feedback and inform its future development. Follow pilot developments by visiting our project blog.

We’ve designed a series of role profiles, which align to the framework and highlight the digital capabilities associated with particular roles. The profiles have been developed collaboratively and mapped to relevant professional frameworks. They are designed to support team leaders in identifying the digital capabilities their teams need.

• HE teacher (pdf)
• FE and skills teacher (pdf)
• Library and information professional (pdf)
• Learning technologist (pdf)
• Leader (pdf)
• Researcher (pdf) 
• Learner (pdf)

In collaboration with the Higher Education Academy (HEA), we have also deveoped a digital lens on the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF).

Guide

Our guide to developing organisational approaches to digital capability has been created to support organisations with developing their culture, infrastructure and practices to grow organisational digital capability and enable individual digital capabilities to flourish.

Briefing

Our briefing, developing organisational approaches to digital capability (pdf) is designed to help you, as an organisational lead, consider how our resources can help build digital capability in your organisation.

It includes a model describing the digitally-capable organisation (pdf) as well as a step-by-step guide (pdf) with practical actions and activities for you to consider when building digital capability in your organisation (pdf).

Audit tools and checklists

Our editable audit tool (Word doc) and checklist (Word doc) give you a place to start on your journey, offering prompts for identifying priorities for development.

We've also developed a checklist for curriculum developers (Word doc) to help course teams assess how well a course of study is preparing learners with the right kinds of digital capabilities.

Our case studies highlight the journeys taken towards digital capability to date by universities and colleges:

• Hillcroft College: small is (digitally) beautiful (pdf)
• Anglia Ruskin University: a digital literacy framework for staff and students (pdf)
• Bournemouth University: a new vision for learning (pdf)
• Epping Forest: unleashing student creativity (pdf)
• Glasgow Caledonian University: a focus on flexible curriculum design (pdf)
• Lancaster University: digital fluency for everyone (pdf)
• University of Southampton: working in partnership with students (pdf)
• The Open University: developing a digital mindset (pdf)
• University of Lincoln: how digital are you? (pdf)
• North Lindsey College: digital ‘missions’ and digital teams (pdf)
• Nottingham Trent University: a continuum of support (pdf)
• Salford City College: cascading skills through staff and student champions (pdf)
• South Eastern Regional College: A whole college approach to developing digital capabilities (pdf)
• University College London: modern variations on a radical tradition (pdf)
• University of Brighton: digital literacies in professional development and the curriculum (pdf)