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</ul> </div> </div>  </div>  </div>  <div class="row break-contact-panel article-full"> <div class="article-full__body"> <div class="product-service-body col span-9"> <div class="field field-type-text-long"> <h2>About the digital elevation tool</h2><p>We're all about helping our members improve user experience and build organisational agility and resilience - but every member has different needs and priorities. Jisc's three-year strategy to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220624154816/https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/8108/1/jisc-further-education-and-skills-strategy-2020-2023.pdf">elevate the UK further education and skills sectors (pdf)</a>, describes the digital elevation model and sets out how further education (<span class="lexicon-term has-tooltip" title="further education"><abbr title="further education">FE</abbr></span>) and skills members can elevate key aspects of their operations with digital technologies.</p><p>The digital elevation tool has been developed to provide senior strategic leaders in <span class="lexicon-term has-tooltip" title="further education"><abbr title="further education">FE</abbr></span> and skills organisations with an <strong>online self-assessment tool</strong> that allows them to validate their organisation’s current position against five key themes and map their digital journey in each area against the digital elevation model.</p><p>Once complete, the tool confirms whether the organisation is at<strong> pre-foundation, foundation, transform </strong>or <strong>elevate</strong> level.</p><p>The self-assessment feedback as well as the resources, information and services we signpost users to, help organisations to invest wisely and make more sure-footed progress to the next level. You can also join a community of similarly minded senior leaders, all engaged on their own version of the same journey and sharing best practice.</p><section class="is-collapsible is-collapsible--blue user-created "><h3 class="cx_collapsibles__trigger"><a id="digital-elevation-model" name="digital-elevation-model"></a>Jisc's digital elevation model</h3><div class="cx_collapsibles__target"><p>The digital elevation model brings to life how digital, data and technology will help <span class="lexicon-term has-tooltip" title="further education"><abbr title="further education">FE</abbr></span> and skills providers elevate their digital ambitions and make progress towards an elevated digital experience for all their stakeholders.</p><h4>Foundations (the ‘must-haves’)</h4><ul><li>The policies, processes and digital, data or technology elements that must be in place for a provider to build on</li></ul><h4>Transform (the ‘should-haves’)</h4><ul><li>Built on the foundations, the same elements that we hope providers already have in place, or plan to put in place, to transform the end user experience</li></ul><h4>Elevate (the ‘can-haves')</h4><ul><li>Built on the transform elements, some UK <span class="lexicon-term has-tooltip" title="further education"><abbr title="further education">FE</abbr></span> and skills providers may already have these aspects, but most will not, yet. Early adopters of these elements will be the innovators across the regions and their experience will influence the experience of all UK <span class="lexicon-term has-tooltip" title="further education"><abbr title="further education">FE</abbr></span> and skills stakeholders as they progress through the levels</li></ul></div></section><h2>Strategic benefits</h2><p>The digital elevation tool provides validation questions grouped around five key themes. Address each theme and every stakeholder in your organisation, as well as the organisation itself, will see benefits:</p><h3>Learner experience</h3><p>Improve the learning experience, not just while learners are enrolled but before they arrive and long after they’ve moved on. Explore how you can use digital technologies to:</p><ul><li>Improve induction and create supportive communities of learning</li><li>Personalise learning journeys</li><li>Foster collaborative working</li><li>Get learners work-ready and support their lifelong learning</li></ul><h3>Curriculum development</h3><p>Keep curricula relevant and up to date with sector data/insight and adopt digital tools and techniques that enable frictionless collaborative working. Find out how data analytics empowers organisations to:</p><ul><li>Make data-driven decisions about developing inspiring, relevant and effective learning and teaching</li><li>Help improve assessment and inform plans for timely, effective support for individual learners</li></ul><p>Digital tools allow learners and staff to stay connected and support participation in learning at times and in locations that suit individual circumstances and learning styles.</p><aside class="article-full__callout article-full__callout--hang-right"><blockquote><p><p style="font-size:1.8rem; line-height:2.7rem;">“We decided to use the digital elevator tool to understand where we are on the digital transformation journey. It raised questions we hadn’t even thought about when embarking on this journey. 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