Virtual Bridge Sessions: Fit for Purpose? Digital Capability Frameworks in a Post-COVID Era
Channel: ColDevNet
Date: 2021-05-11

Now that we’re beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, institutions are beginning to look at what’s worked well over the lockdown periods and what, if anything, we should carry forward in a post-COVID world. One area of interest is the general uplift in digital skills we’ve all experienced in the pivot to remote learning, teaching and assessment. Before COVID, institutions had digital strategies in place and generally were in the process of identifying the level and nature of staff skills and putting training opportunities in place to maximise the benefits that educational technology afforded to learning, teaching and assessment. 

The question of interest is – did the pre-Covid digital capability baselines hold up when the pandemic hit? If not, what was missing and how should those baselines adapt?

This session describes a project being undertaken by CDN to explore frameworks adopted by colleges, what common baseline existed in the sector and whether what we have now is capable of sustaining the sector in the post-COVID era.

Presentation delivered by Walter Patterson, Walter Patterson Consultancy, as part of the Virtual Bridge Session series.

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