This presentation reports on the insights on the coverage of future skills in the present curricula of the school of life science and facility management at ZHAW. It uses the DigiComp Edu framework as a taxonomy for scanning the school's official course catalog towards the present presence of future skills in the curricula. This yielded interesting insights that serve as a baseline for integrating future skills/computational thinking into the curricula.

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Future Skills
targeting curriculum innovation
Dr. Christian Glahn
Institute of Applied Simulation

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School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
> 1500 Students
3 M.Sc. Programmes
5 B.Sc. Programmes
§ Chemistry
§ Biotechnology
§ Natural Resource Sciences
§ Food Technology
§ Facility Management

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Digital Transformation in
Higher Education

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Where to draw the baseline?

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DigiComp Edu (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcompedu)
1: not part of DigiComp Edu

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Learner’s
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DigiComp Edu (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcompedu)
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There are so many
subject specific digital skills!

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Digital
Ressources
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Teaching &
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Empower-
ment
Learner’s
Generic Digital
Competences
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DigiComp Edu (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/digcompedu)
Student’s
Perspective

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Figure out who already
considers digital skills
The Challenge

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1972 Course Descriptions
271 Candidate Courses
64 Digital skills in 81 courses
which relates to 4% of all courses
1: shared by 4 or more study programmes

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There is a healthy baselinethat waits for upscaling
4% of the courses focus on digital skills already

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64 Digital skills
25 terms for generic digital skills
The 2 truly common skill terms1
§ Data
§ Digital
1: used in at least 3 study programmes

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Most digital skills
are specific to the
subject matter
50% of digital skills are expressed only in one study program

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Generic Digital
Competences
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Lecturer’s
Perspective

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Understanding
digital teaching practices
Glahn, C. (2019). Measuring the Digital Transformation of Education and Teaching. In
A. Elçi, L. Beith, & A. Elçi (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Faculty Development
for Digital Teaching and Learning (pp. 379-401). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

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Each level of
digital teaching
requires its ownset of design andcoordination skills

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Each level of
digital teaching
follows
an independent
innovation path

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Even the idealised adoption of innovation in an organisation takes a long time
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the
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Check what tools are
used in an organisation

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The tools in practice tell a story
about the lecturer’s
digital skills, strategies, and needs

22. https://www.zhaw.ch/ias