The CUTE CANVAS: developing a design tool for planning strategic actions for institutional of digital competencies

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a process of development and validation of a methodological tool for supporting the co-design of strategic actions to enhance the digital competencies of educators in higher education. Considering that organisational strategy and change are often imperfectly reflected in structural arrangements in higher education institutions, this work proposes a novel approach to address this difficulty. In a four-iteration process with a design-based approach, a team of experts and stakeholders from six European countries has created and validated a CANVAS to design actions for fostering Digital Teaching Competences based on the DigCompEdu framework. The result is a methodological instrument that facilitates co-design across stakeholder groups within higher education institutions. Its goal is to enhance a strategic vision for participatory action by scaffolding institutional development processes, collaboratively defined, for short, medium- and long-term impacts. This work can also be a reference for other systematised innovation design approaches.

KEYWORDS:

• Co-design
• design thinking
• methodological tools
• strategical development
• institutional development
• scaffolding
• digital competencies

Acknowledgements

To all the partners and associated partners of the CUTE project that works in this process.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Availability of data and materials

The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy regulations.

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Funding

This work was supported by “Competencies for Universities - using Technology in Education” CUTE, an ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership (KA203-867FE04B), funded by the European Union.This study has been partially supported by the project PID2020-113101RB-I00 “Codiseño de itinerarios personales de aprendizaje en entornos conectados en educacion superior”, funded under the State Programme for R&D&I Oriented to the Challenges of Society, from the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. State Research Agency.