Digital Skills
‘Supporting student digital capabilities’ a new resource, produced through the Flexible Learning Programme to support staff involved in curriculum design and delivery, is now available within the Institute for Teaching and Learning’s guidance on ‘Delivering blended learning.’
The resource provides approaches and resources to support embedding digital capabilities in the curriculum, as well as case studies from colleagues sharing their practice. You can also share your practice by submitting a case study, or contributing to a future digital capabilities workshop.
If you have any queries about embedding digital capabilities, please get in touch with Jane Mooney (jane.mooney@manchester.ac.uk).
Launch of Jisc Discovery tool and ‘Develop your digital skills resource’ to Staff
Supporting student and staff digital capabilities is one of the aims of the Flexible Learning Programme and included in Our future, our University’s strategic plan. The introduction of the Discovery Tool, developed for the HE sector by the digital provider Jisc, is an important step in taking this work forwards.
The Discovery tool is a supportive online tool that can help you reflect on your current digital skills experience and confidence. Completing the tool not only gives you a personalised map of your capabilities, it also identifies ways to support your development and provides links to further relevant resources, enabling you to create your own digital development plan.
You can find more information about the Digital Discovery Tool and the Jisc Digital Capability Framework through the following:
All staff can access three themed questionnaires within the Discovery tool: ‘Explore your overall digital capabilities’; ‘Accessibility and Inclusion’ and ‘Effective online teaching’. After completing the tool, you will find curated resources to support your development within the new Learning & OD Staffnet pages on digital skills.
In the meantime, have a look at our L&OD webpages and our Learning for All guide and join the conversation on our Yammer page.
If you have any queries about the Discovery tool or digital capabilities, please contact Jane Mooney, Academic Theme Lead for Digital skills and literacy with the Flexible Learning Programme (jane.mooney@manchester.ac.uk).
We would like your feedback on the Digital Discovery Tool, and whether you consider it useful for students. Please leave your feedback via this form. (You may be asked to need to sign in to your UoM account to complete the form.)
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