Digital Skills

This section provides development courses to support with Digital creation, problem-solving and innovation.

Digital Creation

Digital creation is about digital production of content.

From more technical work such as coding new apps to making digital images, documents and websites. Digital creative professionals have special techniques for digital production, but we all create digital items as part of thinking and participating in a digital world. Mind maps, digital sketches, social media posts, or even selfies can be seen as expressions of digital creativity.

Examples include:

• The capacity to design and create new digital content such as writing, imaging, audio and video, digital code, apps and interfaces, web pages.
• An understanding of different digital production processes including those generated by AI and the basics of editing.
• An understanding of technical and intellectual accessibility related to producing digital content.

Some courses that can support digital creation skills:

Digital research and problem-solving

Digital problem-solving is your ability to solve problems, make decisions and answer questions.

This includes using digital evidence, or using digital environments (such as simulations and virtual worlds) to test out solutions. Digital scholars have many specialist digital methods available, depending on their research area, but all of us take part in digital problem solving every day.

Examples include:

• The capacity to: use digital evidence to solve problems, make decisions and answer questions; collect and collate new evidence including AI generated evidence, evaluate the quality and value of evidence, and to share evidence and findings using digital methods.
• An understanding of digital research methods and of different data analysis tools and techniques.

Enhance your digital research and problem-solving skills with these LinkedIn Learning courses:

Digtial innovation

Digital innovation describes your willingness to try new practices and look for new solutions with digital technology.

We all need to be able to assess the benefits and risks of using new digital applications as well as considering accessibility and inclusion aspects.

Examples include:

• The capacity to: identify, adopt and develop new practices with digital technology in different settings (personal and organisational, social and work-based); assess opportunities, benefits and risks of new digital applications including Generative AI, use digital technologies in developing new ideas, projects and opportunities.
• An understanding of innovation, enterprise and project management in digital settings.
• An understanding of technical and intellectual accessibility issues when reviewing new digital applications to ensure that people using them have an equitable and inclusive experience.
• An understanding that innovating appropriately should respect existing ways of working and involve effective stakeholder engagement.
• An understanding that digital innovation should contribute towards personal, organisational or social goals and targets for sustainability and environmental impact.

Some courses that you might benefit from to improve your digital innovation skills: