A Skills Scan to help you develop digitally literate staff and students within your organisation

1. #jiscdiglit
Anthony Beal, e-Learning Advisor
MILT / LILT Forum - 1 April 2014
http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/digitalliteracy.aspx
Developing digitally literate staff and
students within your organisation
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2. An Introduction to Skills Scan
● Based on the Electronic Training Needs Analysis
(ETNA) survey developed by RSC Scotland
● Provides strategic information to decision makers within
the institution to help identify training needs and inform
staff development
But…
● Need to incorporate other educational sectors (WBL,
ACL, etc)
● Demand to incorporate key aspects of digital literacies
into the survey

3. The staff development challenge...
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4. How does it work?
Contact your Jisc Regional Support Centre to set up an initial
consultation to identify:-
● What staff development issues you would you like to
address?
● What questions you would like to include?
● Over what timescale would you like to carry out the survey?
● Which staff within your organisation would you like to target?
● How granular would you like the feedback report to be?
The Jisc RSC advisor, facilitates the meeting, creates the
survey, analyses the data and provides feedback and any
follow-up actions.

5. The Skills Scan allows you to:
● Tailor the questions to your specific needs ✔
● Identify gaps in current staff skills and
behaviours ✔
● Target specific roles within your organisation
(i.e. Curriculum, Support, etc) ✔
● Plan meaningful staff development activities
based on demand and pitch ✔
● Access support in developing resources to
support staff development ✔

6. Key sections
● Be safe in a digital environment
● Find evaluate and apply
information
● Use digital tools
● Showcase achievement
● Awareness and management of digital
identity
● Collaborate – education, community & work
life

7. Tailoring the Skills Scan to your
needs
● Can be branded with your logo to give more
ownership
● Questions tailored to your needs & can be added
● Questions can be targeted at different roles
● Survey results can be mapped to training resources
for the elements of DL
● Pilot at Northwest college focused on HE

8. Tailor questions
Screen shot of master question
bank to show how it can be
customised

9. Staff development
● Your Jisc RSC can provide training for
selected, identified areas for development
● After deciding on priorities organisations can
discuss their options with their RSC
● They will provide you with an offer of training
or direct you to other training opportunities
● Recommended training resources for each
element of DL will be included in the report

10. Be safe in a digital environment: SD
examples
● Jisc RSC support and guidance on esafety.
● Jisc Legal's template esafety policy.
● Jisc RSC Eastern's esafety Moodle course.
● Jisc Netskills advice and guidance on
developing a social media strategy.
● Jisc Infonet’s e-Safety Toolkit

11. Showcase achievement:
SD examples
● Building a Professional Online Presence -
Moodle course material
● Prince’s Trust - Digital Literacy Survey 2013
● Students...Kick-Start Your Personal Brand
Online
● How to Clean Up Your Online Presence and
Make a Great First Impression.
● How To Use Twitter To Help You Find A Job.

12. Over to you….
You can see an example of the Skills Scan
survey at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/jiscdiglit

13. More details:
http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/digitalliteracy.aspx
If you would like to carry out a Skills Scan at your
organisation or would like to know more contact:-
Northwest region: Anthony Beal
a.beal@lancaster.ac.uk
@redsontour
Yorkshire & Humber region: Scott Hibberson
s.hibberson@leeds.ac.uk
@scotthibberson
#jiscdiglit (You must be a supported learning
provider to qualify for this service)