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New BDC educational developer role profile

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 […]

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Digital capability Institutional capability Leadership Staff student partnerships Training and Development

Guest post from Chris Melia, Learning Technologist, University of Central Lancashire. DigiReady: Equipping our students for the modern workplace

Chris is a Learning Technologist, working directly with UCLan’s Faculty of Health and Wellbeing as digital lead. Currently an MIE Expert, MIE Trainer and Microsoft Certified Educator – Chris is an active member of the Microsoft community, regularly contributing and advocating the use of technology solutions in education. He played a key role in the […]

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Digital capability

Go do Twitter

We know that staff who use tools such as Twitter are more likely to be able to understand the nuance of a tool such as Yammer or Slack. Those who don’t will probably struggle. The solution is not go do Twitter, but to realise that when introducing new tools, if you have an understanding of […]

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Digital capability

It’s a question of style

In applications such as Word and Powerpoint you have styles. In online tools such as WordPress and Moodle you also have styles. Reflecting on your own capability in using styles in applications, would you consider yourself to be: Proficient Confident Competent Aware Unaware Your response to this question provides a real insight into your actual […]