Algorithmic Thinking/Coding
From taking an online coding tutorial to writing your own apps, there are a lot of ways to build this skill.
Developing this competency involves learning to interpret, edit, and articulate a set of coded instructions for a computational system or device to execute.
Design Thinking
It’s not quite what it sounds like–“design thinking” is a way of thinking about the world, making quick prototypes, and then refining them, with a lot of thought about the eventual user’s experience.
Developing this competency involves …
- Becoming familiar with a range of creative, iterative, goal-oriented design processes for creating, testing, and refining new ideas or solutions to problems.
- Developing a personal “toolkit” of strategies for successfully creating, testing, and refining new ideas or solutions to problems.
Project Management
Ever coordinated an event or a complicated group project?
Developing this competency involves …
- Becoming familiar with a range of strategies for scoping and shaping a project, organizing collaborative work on it, and guiding it from idea to culmination.
- Developing a personal “toolkit” of strategies for managing individual and group projects.
Digital Research and Scholarship
Technology is being integrated in many disciplines across the curriculum. Have you ever encountered technologically-based academic research?
Developing this competency involves …
- Becoming aware of both traditional and emerging processes of knowledge creation and dissemination in a particular discipline.
- Developing first-hand experience with the digital tools and technology-enabled-methodologies that are transforming disciplinary research. Examples include textual analysis, topic modeling, network analysis, GIS, and the creation of non-linear narratives and arguments.
Content on this page can be credited to Bryn Mawr College, “Bryn Mawr Digital Competencies Framework” (2016). Blended Learning Research and Open Educational Resources. 3.
https://repository.brynmawr.edu/oer/3
