This document discusses digital competence frameworks in higher education. It summarizes the EU Digital Competence Framework (DigComp) and the UK Digital Capabilities Framework (DigCap), noting similarities like the importance of data, creation, communication, and wellbeing, but also differences like DigCap's focus on scholarship and lifelong learning. It then presents a case study of Bournemouth University's digital toolkit, influenced by DigCap, which provides resources for teaching and learning with technology. Next steps discussed are piloting a questionnaire on institutions' use of technology enhanced learning and seeking better understanding of embedding digital skills in higher education.

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Digital Competence and Capability
Frameworks in the Context of
Learning, Self-Development and HE
Pedagogy
David Biggins, Debbie Holley (Bournemouth University)
George Evangelinos (Anglia Ruskin University)
Marketa Zezulkova (Charles University)
Friday 2 September 2016
MentimeterTEL Toolkit

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Our talk
• Introduction to the EU digital landscape
• Comparison of
• EU Digital Competence
Framework (DigComp) 2016
• UK Digital Capabilities
Framework (DigCap) 2015
• Case study of a TEL framework
• Next steps
• Conclusion

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Task 1 - Current awareness
• Menti.com
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Introduction
• Digital skills remains a challenge (EU 2014)
• Information and communication skills higher than
content creation and problem-solving skills
• How are HEIs to respond?
EU population Workforce
Insufficient skills 47% 39%
No skills 23% 14%
Disadvantaged 64% 38%

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Introduction
• Students may have narrow digital skills
• Social media
• Mobile devices
• Digital skills are broader
• Embodies life-long learning
• Frameworks have been developed
to encourage this broader view
• EU
• JISC

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EU DigComp Framework
• Recommendations published 2006
• Competence = ‘a combination of knowledge,
skills and attitudes’
• Developed for EU, not HE specific
• Framework introduced in 2010
• Launched 2011, findings 2013, revised 2016

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EU DigComp Framework
1. Information
2. Communication
3. Content creation
4. Safety
5. Problem-solving
• 2016 revision
• Digital technologies
• Safety and wellbeing

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DigCap
• Developed for the HE
sector
• Beetham and McGill led
the JISC’s Digital
Capabilities frameworks
project in 2015
• Based on 2009
framework of 7 elements
• Overlapping areas

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DigComp vs DigCap
• Similarities
• Importance of data
• Creation, innovation,
communication,
collaboration, digital
identity & participation
• Privacy
• Literacy
• Wellbeing in latest
versions
• Differences
• Scholarship
(DigCap)
• Life-long learning
(DigCap)
• Self-development
(DigCap)

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Case study

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BU’s digital toolkit
• Launched by the Centre for Excellence in
Learning (CEL) in February 2016
• TEL Toolkit
• Influenced by DigCap
• One-stop shop for academic staff
• Supported by IT and Learning Technologists
• Available to staff, students and publicly
• Organised by pedagogy

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BU’s digital toolkit

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BU’s digital toolkit
• Usage (7 months):
• 2,409 sessions (1,000 academics)
• 11,351 page views
• 40% access from outside BU
• Promotion – soc med, competitions, pouches …
• Feedback mechanism
• Maintenance and development
• Supported by a digital skills self-assessment
• Seeking better understanding …

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Next step 1 - TEL questionnaire
• Collecting data about organisations’ use of TEL
• Piloting a 5-10 min questionnaire
• Would you be able to test the pilot please?
• http://bit.ly/telpilot

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Next step 2 - Actions
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Conclusion
• Human-centred approach to digital competence
• Technological tools and human learning must go hand
in hand
• Importance of
• Learning, self-development and wellbeing
• ‘Human lives in terms of possibilities rather than
deficits’ (McDougall et al 2016)
• Challenge of embedding the TEL philosophy
• Seeking to better understand and exploit TEL in
HE

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Key papers
EU
• European Commission: Measuring Digital Skills across the EU: EU wide indicators of Digital
Competence (2014)
• European Commission: Digital Single Market Europe 2020 strategy https://ec.europa.eu/digital-
single-market/en/europe-2020-strategy
• European Commission: DIGCOMP: A Framework for Developing and Understanding Digital
Competence in Europe (2013) European Commission: Youth Strategy on Health and Wellbeing
http://ec.europa.eu/youth/policy/youth_strategy/health_wellbeing_en.htm
• European Commission: Education 2030: Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action towards
inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all (2015)
JISC
• Beetham, H.: Revisiting digital capability for 2015. (2015)
http://digitalcapability.JISCinvolve.org/wp/2015/06/11/revisiting-digital-capability-for-2015/
• Beetham, H., McGill, L., and Littlejohn, A.: Thriving in the 21st century: Learning Literacies for the
Digital Age (LLiDA project) (2009)
• Pepler, G., and Jeans, N.: Summary of Jisc Digital Student Skills Sector study: preliminary review
of the Learner Focus Groups (2016)
See also Evangelinos/Holley E-LEOT (2014, 2015)