11-11-2025 –, Swing
How do you assess the digital skills of education professionals, and how do you translate that into action? JISC's Discovery Tool has been helping institutions in the UK for years to support individual and team development within the broader ‘Building Digital Capability’ programme. During this session, JISC will present how the tool works, what insights it provides, and how it is used in England at both the strategic and personal levels. Expect a combination of demonstration and reflection on impact, with room for questions and discussion. The tool is also relevant for Dutch institutions working on professionalisation around digital skills.
The Discovery Tool is an interactive self-assessment that supports education professionals in exploring and developing their digital competences. The tool provides personal feedback, development advice and insight at institutional level. Within the UK, the tool is widely embedded in HR cycles, professionalisation policy and team development.
In this session, JISC will share:
How the Discovery Tool was developed and how it relates to frameworks such as DigCompEdu.
The experiences of institutions in the UK with using the tool.
The ways in which institutions use the results for strategic policy, learning objectives and personal development pathways.
The session is relevant for institutions exploring how they can work systematically on digital skills. There will be ample opportunity for questions, reflection and input from the audience, in order to jointly explore what the Dutch context needs.
Mike Cameron is a senior consultant in the Jisc digital capabilities team. Prior to joining Jisc, he worked for 20 years as a digital education specialist, running teams, projects and services and developing courses and learning material, both. He has worked at Durham University, Newcastle University and the University of Bristol.