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- Communicator, collaborator and participator: using technology to network and develop working relationships and effectively communicating online
- Information and data handler: managing and interpreting data, as well as keeping it secure
- Creator and innovator: using a range of technologies for different activities and creating digital artefacts and materials
- Learner and self developer: utilising different digital learning opportunities and using a range of online tools to participate in this
- Ambassador: developing a positive digital profile and looking after personal health and safety in digital settings
Proof of concept will be demonstrated via a mini MOOC for academic staff, which will develop their digital leadership skills and will enable them to be involved in the development of the module so that it is of a quality to deliver to students.
Wan NG at the Sydney University of Technology, has undertaken extensive work on digital literacies, saying that leaders in today’s world need to be digital literate, this means the ability to adapt to new and emerging technologies quickly and being able to engage with the new methods of communication that arise. This literacy includes an intersection of technical (online interfaces, applications), cognitive (critically thinking), and social– emotional (netiquette, safety) dimensions in digital literacy
Edinburgh University Business School's Dr Jim Hamill has stated that transforming digitally is the number one business challenge facing organisations today. Staying relevant in a digital world is the number one personal challenge we all face. We need leaders who possess both the confidence and personal skills to drive digital-led organisational change
Josie Ahlquist's 2014 article, Trending Now: Digital Leadership Education Using Social Media and Journal of Leadership, affirms that leadership educators are charged with preparing students to be relevant and productive citizens; capable of taking on the challenges our society has in store. Technology is a particular challenge that students have to deal with as it is all pervasive, can be disruptive and ever changing,which requires flexibility and being able to adapt. Ahlquist has developed a digital leadership framework, which has 10 competencies that equip students for digital disruptive world, which I will also look at integrating.
1. Awareness of emerging technologies
2. Digital content analysis and evaluation
3. Online self awareness
4. Establishing personal values, privacy, time management
5. Cultivating professional strategic career online branding
6. Building personal learning network
7. Cyber conflict resolution and mediation – identification of negative behaviour
8. Digital decision making strategies based on positive authentic constructive activity
9. Integration of digital technologies into leadership presence – common activities encouraging other leaders leading by example
10. Using social media for the social good
The aim will be to engage students with the concept that leadership is not only role driven but about showing leadership within a given role. Developing a core set of competencies which they could possibly illustrate in a portfolio of evidence and also applying social change model which integrates reflection. This will develop resilient individuals that are prepared to enter digital world they are about to enter, that can show digital leadership in their given role.
Ahlquist, J., 2014. Trending now: Digital leadership education using social media and the social change model. Journal of Leadership Studies, 8(2), pp.57-60.
