What does a digitally capable institution look like - Jisc Digital Festival 2015

What does a digitally capable institution look like?Sarah Davies, Jisc

Rebecca McCready and Gillian Fielding, UCISA

Building digital capability

» In 2010 we defined digital literacies as: those capabilities which fit someone for living, learning and working in a digital society

» It’s a much-disputed term, but the concept struck a chord in the sector, especially from 2012-13 onwards

» Now in 2014-15 we’re being asked to address ‘digital capability’ in the HE and FE sectors as a priority challenge

» Universities and colleges want help in identifying the digital skills needed, identifying their skills gaps, and planning, implementing and evaluating initiatives to improve skills

» #digitalcapability

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» Survey of UK HE institutions» 63 respondents» Data gathered Summer 2014» Sections on: › Definition

› Strategy

› Delivery, implementation and practice

› Bring Your Own

› Supporting differentiation and inclusion

› Looking to the future

The state of the nation: UCISA Digital capabilities survey

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ucisa.ac.uk/digcap #ucisadigcap


http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/digcap

UCISA Digital capabilities survey


Key finding: take a whole institution approach

Faculties/Schools

TEL/eLearning Units

SMT

Library

IT Depts

Academic Development Unit/Teaching Enhancement Units

Human resources Depts

Research/Graduate Units

Careers, Employability & Enterprise

Student services/study skills

Other

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» Programme manager in digital pedagogy

» Head of learning technology

» Academic librarian

» Deputy director for training and development

» IT business partner (development)

» Technology champion

» Student digital ambassador

» Head of organisational and learning development

» Digital practice advisor

» Chief information officer

» Digital learning director

» Digital literacy advisor,

» and even ‘all academic staff (students)’

Job titles with culture change responsibilities


» How does your approach to your job role fit with developing digital capabilities in your institution? Find your role in the table and consider the suggestions against it. Discuss in small groups

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30

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Drop-in clinics orappointments for

students

Telephone/email/onlinechat

Remote access Twitter/ social media Videos (e.g. YouTube,Vimeo, in house etc.)

An online knowledgebase

Other method

library IT Services Ac/StudySkills eLearning


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Key finding: Differentiation and Support


Key finding: Work together

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» Teaching and learning systems (22), including:

› 8 VLE-related projects and reviews

› 4 lecture-capture system implementations or reviews

» Digital literacy-related projects (20), including:

› 8 projects for students mainly focusing on the alignment or embedding of digital skills into curricula or frameworks

› 5 for staff, particularly upskillingacademic staff to enhance the student learning experience



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Key finding: Work together


Rank Department No of citations

1 IT services 30

1 Academic development/Learning technologies 30

2 Library 25

3 Senior leadership team 15

4 HR 13


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» Models and examples of impact assessment

» Stakeholder engagement

» Presentation layer (toolkit, resources and guidance)

Underpinning layer

Building digital capability

Digital capability

framework

Diagnostic tools

Leadership development

MOOC

Staff-student partnerships


» High level framework describing the diverse digital capabilities required by staff in tertiary education organisations in the UK

» Examples of the high level framework in use by specific professionalbodies or for specific developmental purposes (e.g. mappings, role descriptors, exemplary competence frameworks, ‘lenses’ on existing frameworks, development opportunities and awards)

» Use cases exploring how the high level framework and examples may be used in practice to support the development and recognition of digital capabilities

Digital capability framework


Early findings


» Take the recommendations from the Jisc and UCISA work and discuss and prioritise them in small groups.

» Which one thing could you do next to develop digital capability in your university or college? It could be based on the recommendations, or something else you’ve thought of…

› eg. Talking to Heads of Service? Setting up a Twitter account for your unit? Agreeing to adopt the Jisc definition of digital capability?

» Tweet your plan, using the hashtag #digitalcapability

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» ucisa.ac.uk/digcap

» #ucisadigcap

» Join our community:

› digitalskillsanddevelopment.ning.com/

UCISA Digital capabilities survey 2014

Finding out more

http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/digcap

http://www.digitalskillsanddevelopment.ning.com/

» Be a critical friend, input your experiences and needs, and comment on early releases of any of the Jisc outputs

» Put forward your university or college as an early adopter of the new outputs/services

» See jisc.ac.uk/rd/get-involved

» For announcements, join the mailing list:[email protected]

» Read and comment on emerging findings: digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org

» #digitalcapability

Get involved in the Jisc digital capability work


http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/get-involved

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org/

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This house believes that the UK is facing a digital skills crisis

» Ayes » Nos


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