"Students need opportunities to develop digital skills throughout their educational journey, ensuring that they are equipped for the increasingly digital workplace." - Sir Ian Diamond Teaching staff are facing increasing demands to do more than use digital technology to improve pedagogy. The challenge now includes anticipating the digital capabilities that students will need in their future workplace and preparing them to thrive in that rapidly evolving environment. Through our experience of delivering the building digital capability service and related courses we are developing an awareness of different approaches and mechanisms being used to embed digital capability in the curriculum. Some examples are generic in that they can be applied across the whole organisation whereas others are highly specialised and subject specific. A presentation by Shri Footring, senior data product owner – data and digital capability, Jisc

1. Developing digital capabilities
23 April 2020
At a time of crisis and beyond
Shri Footring, Sarah Knight

2. Developing staff digital capabilities now and for the future
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www.jisc.ac.uk/coronavirus
In this session…
• How are we
supporting staff now?
• What will our needs
be in six months’ time
• How can we support
you further?

3. Resources to support development of staff digital capabilities
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https://digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org/
Freely
available
resources

4. Question 1
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a. What specific challenges are staff facing that relate to their digital
capabilities in relation to remote teaching and assessment?
b. Are they new challenges or are they challenges that we knew
about and have support for but now affecting many more people?

5. Question 2
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a. How are you supporting teaching staff to overcome these
challenges?
b. Are there any specific CPD resources or collections are you
directing staff to?
c. Are there any specific approaches that are working well for you?
d. How to you ensure that you are directing people to the right
resources?

6. Using the Jisc framework to focus support for staff
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Contextualising the framework for different roles

8. Elements of digital capability and technology mapping
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A starting point for staff and students: the discovery tool
The Discovery tool
• A self-administered quiz about
professional digital practices (in
education)
• Designed to give useful feedback
including 'next steps' and links to
resources
• Reflective, informative and
developmental
https://digitalcapability.jisc.ac.uk/our-service/discovery-tool/

10. Question bank
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11. Individual report
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Each element has:
• Level: developing | capable | proficient
• Next steps: what people at this level can try to develop further
• Resources: links to selected resources for further exploration
Option to request a digital badge on completion of each question set

12. Question 3
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a. What do you think support needs will be in six months' time?
Will staff needs be the same as the were in the weeks
immediately following the crisis or if not, how will the focus have
changed?
b. How ready to you feel as an institution, and what support you find
helpful?

13. Question 4
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a. Would it help to have all questions relating to remote teaching in one
place?
b. Would it be helpful to group resources according to element of digital
capability and present them to staff in a report?
c. Are there any new resources or new topics that should be included?

14. Thank you
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Shri Footring Shri.footring@jisc.ac.uk
Sarah Knight Sarah.knight@jisc.ac.uk
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