Digital Skills News

September 2026

The web portal Digital Skills has been entirely updated. The most important change are the following ones:

1. The Framework Digital Literacies has been expanded:  the Framework Digital Literacieshas been used at the University of Basel to provide orientation on digital skills for quite some time. As part of the project Digital Competencies to the Next Level,it has now received an overhaul. Aligned with the updated version of the JISC Digital Capabilities model, the framework now explicitly addresses the AI transformation and incorporates new AI competencies across all six areas of Digital Literacies.

2. Each university group now receives specific recommendations on how to expand their digital skills: Accessible from the web portal’s home page, new information resources have been created for each group to ensure that students, teachers and lecturers, as well as administrative staff, easily find access to the content more relevant for them. These pages replace the link collections that were provided by the “Information resources” pages.

3. The content on all web pages has been double-checked and updated. In particular, the web portal's learning resource on securityentails new recommendations, and new software and features are now documented on the page dedicated to alternative tools.

August 2026

To help students make a successful start in their studies, the University of Basel has just made the new version of the self-study course UPGRADE your digital skills available online. The course is accessible through the ADAM learning platform. It is also open to all other university members who wish to become more familiar with the university's digital infrastructure and expand their digital skills.

The course is currently only available in German and can be found on this website.