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University of Wollongong Australia

Digital Capabilities Explained

Digital Learning and Development

This capability area focuses on effectively learning in digitally enabled environments. This has clear relevance for your time at University, particularly as recent years have seen digital learning activities become a significant part of your overall student experience. This capability is not limited to being able to access your learning materials and resources in online or digital spaces, and encompasses actively participating in digital learning opportunities, using digital tools to optimise your planning and reflective practices and organise your learning, and taking advantage of the breadth of opportunities provided within digital learning spaces. After graduation, this capability area continues to be important as you move into your profession and need to work using specific tools and interfaces, continue your learning in the form of ongoing professional development, and communicate with colleagues across a variety of locations.

UOW has a range of great resources to get you started in this capability area:

Useful Tools

What skills are contained in this capability area?

Digital Learning

  • The capacity to: participate in (and benefit from) digital learning opportunities; identify and use digital learning resources; participate in learning dialogues via digital media; use learning apps and services (personal or organisational); use digital tools to organise, plan and reflect on learning; record learning events/data and use them for self-analysis, reflection and showcasing of achievement; monitor own progress; participate in digital assessment and receive digital feedback; manage own time and tasks, attention and motivation to learn in digital settings
  • An understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in learning online – and of own needs and preferences as a digital learner (eg access, media, platform and pedagogy)

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