All Aboard: Digital Skills in Higher Education

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All Aboard: Digital Skills in Higher Education

Creator(s)

Áine Galvin, Anne O’Keeffe, Aoife Geraghty, Blaneth McSharry, David Moloney, Deirdre Ryan, Gobnait O’Riordan, Gráinne McGrath, Gwen Moore, Iain MacLaren, Jonathan Flynn, Kate Molloy, Leone Gately, Liz Dore, Michael O’Brien, Sharon Flynn, Yvonne Emmet

Organisation(s)

All Aboard Project Team, National University of Ireland Galway

Discipline(s)

Teaching & Learning

Topic(s)

Digital Learning, Professional Development

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CC BY-NC

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“Are you keen to improve your digital knowledge, skills or confidence? If so, we’d love to help. All Aboard is a national project that aims to empower learners, teachers, and anyone who uses technology to support their work, their study, or other aspects of living in a digital age.”

Benefit of this resource and how to make the best use of it

In this resource, the creators have: *developed a simple, fun way of thinking about digital skills (in the form of a Metro Map), *produced and shared lessons and learning materials that anyone can access online, *promoted the use of ‘digital badges’ across a range of applications including, of course, digital skills, *worked in partnership with many organisations and groups, including supporting student engagement projects, *championed a focus on confidence, empowerment, identity, and wellbeing. Interested? Then access the resource and start your digital journey! You can also determine your own digital confidence profile by answering a few simple questions on a tool linked on the project’s homepage.

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Galvin, Á., O’Keeffe, A., Geraghty, A., McSharry, B., Moloney, D., Ryan, D., O’Riordan, G., McGrath, G., Moore, G., MacLaren, I., Flynn, J., Molloy, K., Gately, L., Dore, L., O’Brien, M., Flynn, S., & Emmet, Y. (2021). All aboard: digital skills in higher education. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/all-aboard-digital-skills-in-higher-education/ License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC).

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