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Boosting students’ digital literacy skills to enhance employability

The Swinburne University of Technology has recently announced that it will be the first university in Australia to achieve Adobe Creative Campus status.

According to a recent press release, the University is joining an exclusive group of approximately 20 universities and colleges across the United States and South Korea.

Digital literacy for the students

This group shares a commitment to ensuring the students, have the digital literacy skills required in today’s digital world.

The University’s approach to digital literacies guarantees that students are provided with the awareness, abilities and confidence to use digital technologies in order to work with data, create content, solve problems, and communicate effectively.

The University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) explained that being an Adobe Creative Campus will enable students to excel in digital literacy and enhance their employability with fundamental skills, which are essential for participation in the future of work.

All the University’s students will have full access on all devices to Adobe Creative Cloud starting late November 2019.

This is a collection of the world’s best applications and services used for graphic design, video editing, web development and photography.

Background of the initiative

Graduates and employees require digital skills to be productive in the workforce of the future and aligned to the growing digital economy and society.

The Australian Industry Group’s Workforce Development Needs Survey Report has highlighted digital literacies as an essential foundational skill as businesses adapt to new technologies and digitally enabled environments.

Businesses are facing new demands on their workforce capabilities and cultures as they adapt to new digital technologies.

The education sector must adapt quickly to the changing needs of the digital economy to ensure graduate employability and successful, future-focused businesses.

How it will work

Digital literacy capabilities will be embedded within the University’s courses, including innovations to learning activities and assessment tasks enabled through the Creative Cloud applications.

Visual, audio and animation skills will be developed to advance students’ creative and persuasive digital communications expertise.

The digital literacies program and the Adobe Creative Campus will support the transformation of learning and assessment through the use of innovative video, audio and digital presentation formats.

A Digital Literacies Hub will be constructed in the library precinct for staff and students to access one-on-one training in the company’s products from student digital coaches.

Collaboration is key

The University has a key focus on technology, innovation, digital literacy and the future of work with its expertise in the fourth industrial revolution and rapid technological change.

The company, meanwhile, is supporting the appointment of a professorial position to lead scholarship, research and innovation in digital literacies education, complementing other specialist centres at the University.

These centres include the Data for Social Good Cloud Innovation Centre and the Centre for the New Workforce.

Moreover, the company recognises the value of teaching digital literacy skills in higher education by preparing students for success in the classroom and in the modern economy.

By collaborating with institutions around the world that align on similar student outcomes, the University serves as an example to other academic leaders that are looking to transform education and drive innovation.

PARTNER

Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries.

PARTNER

CTC Global Singapore, a premier end-to-end IT solutions provider, is a fully owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and ITOCHU Corporation.

Since 1972, CTC has established itself as one of the country’s top IT solutions providers. With 50 years of experience, headed by an experienced management team and staffed by over 200 qualified IT professionals, we support organizations with integrated IT solutions expertise in Autonomous IT, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, Workplace Modernization and Professional Services.

Well-known for our strengths in system integration and consultation, CTC Global proves to be the preferred IT outsourcing destination for organizations all over Singapore today.

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Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions creates an organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empowers teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enables customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with locations around the world, Planview has more than 1,300 employees supporting 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users worldwide. For more information, visit www.planview.com.

SUPPORTING ORGANISATION

SIRIM is a premier industrial research and technology organisation in Malaysia, wholly-owned by the Minister​ of Finance Incorporated. With over forty years of experience and expertise, SIRIM is mandated as the machinery for research and technology development, and the national champion of quality. SIRIM has always played a major role in the development of the country’s private sector. By tapping into our expertise and knowledge base, we focus on developing new technologies and improvements in the manufacturing, technology and services sectors. We nurture Small Medium Enterprises (SME) growth with solutions for technology penetration and upgrading, making it an ideal technology partner for SMEs.

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HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp tools allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices. 

PARTNER

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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