This blog post explores how the Digital team at the University of Exeter are being user-led in everything they do to help us on our journey to digital transformation, from communications and engagement to product and service development.
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My Year as a Digital Communications and Engagement Assistant at The University of Exeter
This blog post, written by Deborah, reflects on her past year in the team in readiness for her returning to the team later this month!
The University of Exeter’s First Digital Team Hackathon: A Journey of Innovation and Collaboration
To foster creativity and teamwork, our digital team recently embarked on an exciting journey: our very first hackathon. This event was not just about coding; it was about bringing together diverse minds to solve real-Students problems, learn new skills, and build something amazing from scratch!
What is the digital skills gap and how can we overcome it?
In the latest blog post of their digital skills series, Dave Weller, Digital Skills Lead at the University of Exeter, discusses the UK digital skills gap.
Developing our own game: Campus Quest
In this blog we’re sharing how Jasmine, Onash, and Gowthaman from the Digital Team at the University of Exeter are developing their very own digital game to help solve student problems while experimenting with our in-house capabilities!
The Digital Team at the University of Exeter Employment Awards 2024
We’re celebrating that four members of the Digital Team were nominated for UoE Employment Awards: Kirsty Heffernan, Martin Tobar Prado, Deborah Phan Huy, and Johan Spruit! Read this blog to hear about their experience of being nominated for an award.
Speaking at my first event: Times Higher Education’s Digital Universities US 2024
Our Digital Strategy sets out that we want to become ‘an authority on digital capability, focusing on speed to competency and ready for work’, and a part of achieving this is by sharing what the University is doing to deliver the Digital Strategy, increasing external engagement.
Read this blog post to hear about my experience of speaking at my first international event, Digital Universities US!
Digital Learning at the University of Exeter: Finding Room for Upskilling
Improving digital skills isn’t just about learning to use digital tools – it’s also a learning mindset.
In the fourth blog post of their digital skills series, Dave Weller, Digital Skills Lead at the University of Exeter, discusses why digital learning is essential to improving digital capability, what it is, and the benefits it brings.
The University of Exeter’s Student Panellists at Digital Universities UK 2024
At DUUK we hosted a panel exploring what students want from their online HE experience, which two of our UoE students, Xin Zhao and Kirsty Heffernan, took part in.
Lisa Harris, Director of Digital Learning in the Business School, shares her experience of attending this panel, and we hear from Xin and Kirsty on their experience of the event.
User-Led Communications: Our Student Communications and Engagement Assistant
In Digital we endeavour to be user-led in everything that we do. This approach helps to build trust with our users, while knowing that we are providing them real value. We currently have one Student Communications and Engagement Assistant embedded within the Digital team, focusing on helping to increase engagement with our student audience.
Read this blog post to learn about Deborah’s role in the team so far!