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Digital Capabilities Explained

Digital Creation, Problem Solving, and Innovation

This capability area focuses on using digital tools to create new digital artefacts and materials, the use of digital tools and evidence to solve problems and answer questions, and the capacity to use digital tools in new and innovative ways.

At University this may take the form of creating digital content for assessments (e.g. podcasts, digital stories, blogs, multimedia content), working with tools such as 3D printers or modelling software, or utilising digital research methods and data analysis tools and techniques. After graduation, it will be important to continue to develop your capabilities as you enter your profession, and work with digital tools to innovate your professional practices and work with inovation, enterprise and project management in digital settings.

 

Useful Tools

Creative Production Fundamentals

Digital Innovation

Learning path:

Access the Digital Creation, Problem Solving, and Innovation learning path on LinkedIn Learning for further resources in this area.

What skills are contained in this capability area?

Digital creation

  • The capacity to design and/or create new digital artefacts and materials such as digital writing, digital imaging, digital audio and video, digital code, apps and interfaces, web pages
  • An understanding of the digital production process and the basics of editing and coding

Digital research and problem-solving

  • The capacity to: use digital evidence to solve problems and answer questions; collect and collate new evidence; evaluate the quality and value of evidence, and to share evidence and findings using digital methods
  • An understanding of digital research methods and of different data analysis tools and techniques

Digital innovation

  • The capacity to adopt and develop new practices with digital technology in different settings (personal and organisational, social and work-based).
  • The capacity to use digital technologies in developing new ideas, projects and opportunities
  • An understanding of innovation, enterprise and project management in digital settings

 

(Taken from the JISC Digital Capabilities Framework, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.)