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CUA Digital Capacities Enable Staff Development A Professional Services Learning Pathway has been developed for Professional, Managerial and Support Staff (PMSS) in the CUA to help build digital skills and support online and blended learners. The pathway involves the completion of the Digital Discovery Tool, where learners self-assess their digital capabilities, identify their strengths and opportunities to develop their skills further to enhance their practice of learning. Additional training resources (e.g., Microsoft apps, All Board mini-courses) have been embedded into this pathway to cover digital and soft skills. By offering a variety of learning resources for learners to engage with, this pathway remains open and flexible and encourages learners to revisit the learning platform for further professional development.
Paul Walsh, Assistant Instructional Designer, HE 4.0 Project, IT Sligo The pathway is easy to navigate and learn in your own time. The learning material is delivered in engaging and interactive formats that keep you engaged. The course helped me to be aware professionally of the great cloud and digital platforms which we are increasingly using to do our work and deliver our services as educational providers.
Emma McDonald, CUA Research Assistant I really enjoyed doing the Professional Services Badge. It’s so easy to follow, everything is self-explanatory. There’s so much flexibility in the course, such a good bank of mini courses and you can pick and choose what you like. The course also helped me in my research work, imporved my presentation skills and showed me different digital tools and resources I can use.
Aisling Sweeney, PMSS Staff, LYIT One of the benefits for me was doing the Microsoft Digital Badge courses and the short mini digital courses. Some of the courses also helped me increase my interpersonal communication skills through courses on open university like leadership and management skills and facilitating group discussions.
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