Nabila Raji, Education Capabilities and Engagement Manager, King’s College London
Nabila is the Education Capabilities and Engagement Manager for the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning at King’s College London. Nabila collaborates with academic, professional service staff and students to develop the staff and student digital skills programme. Nabila applies her background in Occupation Psychology to identify, create, implement, and evaluate practical and tangible solutions that enhance the staff and student experience. Nabila is particularly passionate about helping students achieve success by using technological innovation to remove barriers to learning.
‘Supporting student success: The Essential Digital Skills Programme’
Digital competence and confidence are critical to student success. King’s College London created the Essential Digital Skills Programme to explicitly teach students the core digital skills they need to support their academic, professional, and personal development and build confidence in the digital world.
Since the programme launched in the 2020-2021 academic year, over 15,000 King’s students have joined, and had over 3 million interactions with the programmes content. The programme has proved to be successful in increasing students’ digital competence and confidence, and access to digital skills training, as well as raising awareness about King's services, systems, and processes and the importance of having digital skills for employability.
This presentation will outline King’s approach to teaching students core digital skills through the Essential Digital Skills Programme; the impact of the programme, and lessons learnt.
