4. Contextualising the framework
• Role
• Now 9 role profiles
• All have been updated and
rebranded
• Library and information
professional profile updates
in collaboration with CILIP
• **New** Research
manager/Research
professional profile
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Different lenses:
5. 5
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
6. 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
Building digital capability
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Other updates
• **New** case studies - Gloucestershire
College, York St. John University
• New service animation
• Coming soon
• New question set focused on
accessibility for staff
• Review of digital wellbeing practice
• Mapping Google, Apple and LinkedIn
Learning materials to the framework
• Development of an iDEA badge for
completion of discovery tool questions
• Organisational maturity model…..
Request to please share your feedback
on our website! Details to follow….
12. Outline of the session
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Topics
•Elements and principles of organisational
digital capability
•What does good look like?
•Reviewing the draft model
•Discussion
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13. Elements and principles
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Basis of the model
•Similar to the six elements of individual
digital capability
•Capabilities rather than core functions
•We have attempted to define some
underlying principles
14. Building the draft model
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Design of the model
•Aiming for an ‘at a glance’ view
•Three levels of maturity:
- Emerging
- Established
- Enhanced
•Indicators can often apply to more than
one principle but we have kept each
indicator under one heading
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15. What does good look like?
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The answer depends on your goals
•Not all organisations want to reach the
same end point
•Some principles will be more important to
you than others
•Many indicators represent progressive
embedding
•Moving from emerging to established may
take more effort than the next step
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16. Principles 1
Organisational
digital culture The organisation embraces digital technologies as a key tenet of business
success.
The organisation develops the digital capabilities of its students and staff.
Learning, teaching
and assessment Learning teaching and assessment practices motivate and empower students
and help them develop as digitally-capable independent learners.
Learning teaching and assessment practices use digital technologies to help
demonstrate achievement and prepare learners for future success.
Research and
innovation The organisation’s research is underpinned by digital capability.
The organisation’s research and scholarship exemplify how its digital
capabilities support corporate social responsibility.
17. Principles 2
ICT infrastructure The organisation has a robust and flexible digital infrastructure.
The organisation can give its staff and students reliable and secure access to
the information and tools they need, when they need them.
Content and
information
The organisation’s information management practices are appropriate for an
organisation which has knowledge creation and sharing at its heart.
Communication The use of digital communications enhances organisational efficiency and
effectiveness.
The organisation uses digital communications to further its strategic goals.
18. Reviewing the draft model
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Activity
•Choose two of the capability areas to look
at in turn
•First round – review this part of the model
as a group. Feel free to
add/remove/move/comment on indicators
(15 mins)
•Second round – same activity for a
different capability (15 mins)
Use the master sheet to see if an item is
really missing or under a different heading
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19. Plenary discussion
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The approach
•Is the approach useful?
• How would you anticipate using it in your
context?
•Is the number of levels/level of detail about
right?
•What are your thoughts on each of the six
areas?
•Are there are any key topics missing from
the indicators?
Principles and indicators
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20. Further information
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Other resources
•Building Digital Capability service
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/building-digital-capability
•Discovery Tool
https://digitalcapability.jisc.ac.uk/our-service/discovery-tool/
•Developing Digital Capability: an organisational framework
http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6610/1/JFL0066F_DIGICAP_MOD_
ORG_FRAME.PDF
Following the pilot of the discovery tool, we launched it as part of the Building digital capability service last October to subscribers, which offers a suit of practical tools and guidance to support UK educational organisations with all aspects of building digital capability. In addition there’s a reduced ‘taster version of the tool which anyone can explore. We’ve focused it around:
how we can support from an individual perspective your staff and students to develop their capabilities and identify their strengths and weaknesses through the discovery tool;
and from an organisational perspective support in your organisational journey to digital capability, and through the data from the tool help to provide you with indicative data on where your staff and students are.
But we’re continuing to work with you in partnership to explore your needs and how we can best support you in that journey.
So we have a shared understanding of what we mean by digital capabilities, and ways of contextualising that language for different purposes. But how to we know where staff and students are in terms of their digital skills? And how can we identify actions for development?
This was the starting point for the development of a tool, the Discovery Tool - following a process of co-design with other sector bodies, which provides a way for staff and students to self-assess their skills, and understand their starting points.
It provides a series of reflective questions that relate to the different elements of digital capability we have defined in the six elements of digital capability model (organised by the 15 sub-elements). Buy answering the questions staff are made aware of the skills they already have and new ones they might like to try.
As it’s designed to be primarily a developmental tool, it is NOT an objective measure of digital competence, and isn’t designed to be a full course of study – instead it provides a range of pointers to relevant resources.
This is the tool dashboard that staff would see (its different for students) and they can access the questions from here, background on what is digital capability and access to reports etc down the left hand bar
Once a user has completed all the questions within a question set they are provided with a tailored feedback report. This example shows what a users of the full discovery tool receive. So, for each element they are given:
Their confidence level rating (developing | capable | proficient)
Suggested next steps
And recommended resources
Users can download their report and share it if they choose to.
The tool is primarliy a developmental tool, but it does provide anonymised data to institutions to support organisational planning for example where training could be most effectively targeted. Including data on completion rates, and capability ratings that can be broken down by dept & subject (for staff) and dept and
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
Many of the features I have shown you on previous slides are available in the subscriber version of the tool, however, there is a free version of the tool available for all staff (though not students).
This provides access to the ‘Overall capabilities’ question set which staff can re-take whenever they want and receive a shortened version of the feedback report on its completion.
It does not provide staff with access to any other question sets or the resource bank.
We have also just this month launched
the ability for users to get a badge for completion of the questions; and
The ability for institutions to surface their own local resources through the user reports and resource bank.
Development of a new question set in the discovery tool for staff on accessible digital practice for September 2019
Development of a maturity model for a digitally capable organisation
Review of digital well being practice
In addition to the Microsoft mapping, we’re working collaboratively with Google, Linkedin Learning, Microsoft and Apple to map their resources to the framework and surface through the discovery