The need to travel the digital skills divide Digital skills are essential for navigating modern life, but the path can feel uncertain and uneven. For some, it’s a familiar and comfortable road; for others, it can be full of obstacles and fear. That’s why we’ve created a new Essential digital skills question set within Jisc’s […]
Category: Discovery tool
The building digital capabilities team was excited to bring the community together at Digifest ‘25 to focus on fostering digital mindsets using Jisc’s discovery tool. As the community is made up of leaders in digital skills development from colleges and universities around the world, we aimed to explore both individual and organisational digital mindsets with […]
The building digital capabilities team at Jisc are delighted to launch a brand new role profile for educational developers with Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) mapping. As always, the need for and development of the role profile came directly from collaboration with the sector. What are role profiles? Our role profiles have been developed […]
This blog is posted on the Jisc data analytics blog site but reflects on findings from the digital experience insights service and draws on data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Educause, British Chamber of Commerce and Barclays life skills. With new and different ways of working continuing to evolve, how well prepared […]
The Jisc Building digital capabilities team are pleased to announce the launch of a new question set in response to the changing landscape faced by providers as a result of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Overview As a result of the pandemic, many further and higher education providers have been assessing their ability to deliver learning […]
“An interesting, informative, and practically focused event” Our first joint building digital capability and digital experience insights community of practice was originally due to be a face-to-face event kindly hosted by the University of Northampton at their Waterside Campus. Unfortunately, that was not to be, but Rob Howe, head of learning technology at the University […]
Jisc resource records The discovery tool provides access to a curated collection of resources for each of the digital capability framework areas (eg digital wellbeing, digital proficiency) and for specific activities relating to each of the question sets, such as teaching, library and learning resources and the student question sets. A selection of these resources […]
We are delighted to launch a new question set for subscribers to our digital capability service. The questions focus on accessibility and inclusion and are aimed at staff working in educational institutions. This is very timely as institutions are working to meet the requirements of the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations […]
The discovery tool is part of the Jisc Building digital capability service which provides research-informed tools and resources to help staff and students thrive with their use of digital tools and services in their learning, at work and in personal activities. Several institutions are already receiving the benefits of subscribing to this service. If you […]
For those that were able to attend the Jisc building digital capability community of practice event held at the University of Hertfordshire last month, we were treated to a veritable feast of activities going on across our further education (FE) and higher education (HE) sectors on the theme of ‘digital skills and capabilities’! The insightful […]