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The digital economy is growing – are your students ready for the workplace?

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 […]

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The digital economy is growing – are your students ready for the workplace?

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 […]

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Over 50,000 students, teaching and professional services staff and researchers have told us about their digital experience this year

The findings from the 2020 survey of the digital experience of professional services staff are now available, ensuring the contributions of those who play an essential role in our organisations is heard and emphasising the value of listening to and engaging with all users. When combined with the findings from our pilot researchers survey and […]

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A collaborative, agile, resilient, and future-focused community

Building digital capability and digital experience insights community of practice event – 17 November 2020 The joining of two established communities of practice for building digital capability (opens in new tab) and digital experience insights (opens in new tab) services has brought new energy to the drive to transform the digital environment and the digital […]

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University of Newcastle (Australia): creating and implementing a digital capabilities framework for students

A guest blog posting from Ruth Cameron, digital capabilities project officer (library), University of Newcastle (Australia)     Background A few years ago, our University Library was included in a discussion about a new education framework for the institution. One of our staff members indicated that digital capabilities weren’t specifically mentioned, and so the library […]

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Our first joint (and online) building digital capability and digital experience insights community of practice

“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 […]

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Re-thinking the importance of developing student digital capabilities in a post Covid-19 world

A guest blog post from Laura Hollinshead, learning technologist at University of Derby   During the full lockdown the government asked us to work at home where possible with remote working becoming the norm for many people. A recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey has suggested that 45% of adults in employment said they […]

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Digital capability community continues to grow

The second network event for our digital capability community of practice took place in Birmingham on 30 November 2017 with around 100 participants from over 54 colleges and universities coming together to share practice, exchange ideas and work together. The presentations, resources and Periscope recordings are available from our event page. The strong interest in …

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Piloting the digital capability discovery tool: six new institutional stories

Earlier this year 14 universities and colleges took part in a pilot of our digital capability discovery tool (beta). The discovery tool has been designed to support individuals and managers in a range of roles by helping them to identify and reflect on their current digital capabilities and make plans to improve these using a …

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Launch of new digital capability community and new guide to developing organisational approaches to digital capability

Technological change and evolving digital capabilities – how can we keep up? Digital know-how (Beetham, 2015) is an acknowledged asset to our future economy (House of Lords select committee on digital skills, 2015) that is changing the way we work, communicate and conduct our personal business. The sustained rate of growth in digital innovation and …