Digital Skills Project Timeline
This page demonstrates some of the main achievements of the Digital Skills Project since its establishment in August 2021.
Launch of AU's Digital Strategy (2021-2025):
Digital skills is one of the four key "foundations" of the strategy
AU's Digital Strategy
Purchase of a 3-year subscription to the Jisc Digital Discovery Tool and LinkedIn Learning
Establishment of the Digital Skills Project and appointment of a Digital Skills Lead
Blogpost
Student pilot of the Digital Discovery Tool (foundation and first-year students) with 4 academic departments: Business, Psychology, Education, and English & Creative Writing
Approval for the rollout of Digital Discovery Tool: Approval from the Academic Enhancement Committee and Academic Board that all Foundation Year and Year 1 students will be supported to use the Digital Discovery Tool
Professional Services Staff Pilot of the Digital Discovery Tool with Information Services staff and the Admin Forum
Presentation at the Jisc Connect More Panel Discussion - "Developing digital culture in education: How using Jisc's building digital capability service supports digital culture"
Jisc Connect More 2022 Programme
Appointment of two Digital Skills Assistants to support the project for 4 months
New Support for Academic Staff:New teaching resources and training programme developed for staff supporting students to use the Digital Discovery Tool
View Teaching Resources for Staff
New resource developed to support students using the Digital Discovery Tool independently
View resource for students
Appointment of three Student Digital Champions for the first time
Blogposts published by the Student Digital Champions
All Foundation Year and First-year students are supported to use the Digital Discovery Tool (~900 students complete the Digital Discovery Tool)
Panel Discussion at AU's 10th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference: 'Supporting the development of students' digital capabilities'
Watch the Panel Discussion
Second student pilot of the Digital Discovery Tool (second-year students) with 4 academic departments: Business, Psychology, Education, and English & Creative Writing
Pilot of a new Blackboard module to support students' engagement with the Digital Discovery Tool and additional resources
Development of two new resources for students and staff - AU Digital Skills Library (Student Library, Staff Library) and LinkedIn Learning Digital Skills Collections (Student Collections, Staff Collections)
Approval for the rollout of Digital Discovery Tool: Approval from the Academic Enhancement Committee that all Undergraduate and Postgraduate students will be supported to use the Digital Discovery Tool from academic year '23-24
Appointment of two Digital Capabilities and Skills Development Coordinators: Shân Saunders and Jia Ping Lee
Digital Skills Team staff
Student Digital Champions project - What do students think of LinkedIn Learning?
Student Feedback
Presentation at the Jisc Building Digital Capabilities and Digital Insights community of practice event - "Embracing university-wide collaboration to drive student engagement with the Digital Discovery Tool" (City, University of London)
Event programme