Building digital capability

Our ‘digital discovery’ tool (beta) has been designed to support individual staff (and soon students) working in universities, colleges and training providers to reflect on their digital capabilities.

The tool presents a series of reflective questions that relate to the different elements of digital capability as defined in our digital capability framework (pdf). These are followed by a visual profile of their capabilities, feedback and suggested actions and resources that might help staff and students progress.

Pilots

Our first beta version of the tool was piloted with 14 institutions from February 2017 – June 2017. You can read more about the journeys of six of the institutions involved, and what we learned from this pilot on our project blog.

Following feedback gained from this pilot, the tool has been redesigned and developed in a new platform. The new beta tool is being piloted by 100 organisations across FE, HE and skills from January to May 2018. The evaluation of the pilot will be used to inform the future of the service.

Stay up to date

To find out more and keep in touch with the work visit our project blog.

The next opportunity to get involved with the tool (outside of the pilot) will be September 2018. Please contact the team (digitalcapability@jisc.ac.uk) if you’d like to find out more.

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.

Senior leaders briefing paper

Download our briefing paper: delivering digital change: strategy, practice and process (pdf).

Watch our playlist of case study films from Lancaster University, Coleg y Cymoedd, Harlow College and the University of Derby: 

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)