Role Profiles
About Role Profiles
A series of digital role profiles aligned to the Jisc Digital Capability Framework has been designed to highlight the digital capabilities associated with particular staff and student roles.
For Teaching and Professional Services Staff
They have been developed by Jisc and by the College Development Network. For lecturers' digital skills development is part of the GTCS standard for professional review.
For Students
As means to grow their digital skills aligned to Digitally Prepared College attributes.
Who should use the Digital Discovery Tool
Staff or a students seeking guidance on which digital skills are best matched to their role
Staff or students looking for a role-specific focus on digital skills development prepare for the digital world
Teaching Staff
Assess and reflect on your own digital skills development needs relevant to your role.
Lecturing staff should as a minimum be able to meet the
( CDN/GTCS Standard)
Create Digital Educational Content.
Provide Online Assessment.
Track Student progress.
Find and Organise Digital Content
Identify areas for development and plan your personal digital skills development path to improve digital skills and practices.
Ensure your digital capabilities are fully recognised and credited, e.g. by discussion and acknowledgement in development reviews, inclusion on your CV or LinkedIn profile, and accreditation with badges or certificates.
Students
At City of Glasgow College we promote and support the City of Glasgow College Attributes.
Digital skills underpin many of these but the greatest digital focus is on ensuring all of our students are Digitally Prepared.
The digitally prepared City Student:
Understands the digital world
Embraces modern technologies
Cyber security aware
Virtually Interconnected
Ensure your digital capabilities are fully recognised and accredited, e.g. by discussion and acknowledgement in guidance sessions, inclusion on your CV or LinkedIn profile, and accreditation with badges or certificates.
You should leave college with a digital portfolio of your achievements.
Professional Services Staff
Assess and reflect on your own digital skills development needs relevant to your role.
As a minimum you should be comfortable with all the systems the College expects you to use in your job role.
Identify areas for development and plan your personal digital skills development path to improve digital skills and practices.
Ensure your digital capabilities are fully recognised and credited, e.g. by discussion and acknowledgement in development reviews, inclusion on your CV or LinkedIn profile, and accreditation with badges or certificates.
Available Role Profiles
Students: Learner (Jisc)
Teaching: Teacher (Jisc), College Development Network Baseline
Research: Researcher (Jisc), Researcher (Sign in with your College details)
Leaders: Leader (Jisc)
Professional Services: Professional Services – General (Jisc), Library and Information Professional (Jisc), Learning Technologist (Jisc), College Support Staff Baseline.
Guidance for lecturers and managers developing others
Initiate conversations about developing digital skills and establish a common language based on the Jisc model.
Review individual staff digital skills development needs
Assess collective team strengths and weaknesses and identify areas in which skills need to be developed or recruited.
Ensure staff digital capabilities are fully recognised and credited, e.g. by discussion and acknowledgement in development reviews and accreditation with badges or certificates.
Provide a link to strategic objectives to ensure the right skills are developed in your staff to build capability to achieve team and wider objectives.
Ensure that digital capabilities and responsibilities are reflected in job descriptions