Course README

Essential Digital Skills

Essential Digital Skills is a foundation course in practical digital research work at the University of Nottingham. It focuses on day-to-day judgement around collaboration, governance, data management, interpretation, and defensible digital practice.

What This Course Contains

This course section of the site contains:

  • lesson pages
  • learner preparation and reference material
  • instructor notes and optional extensions
  • course-level information about contribution, conduct, licensing, and learner profiles

Course Scope

The course supports participants to:

  • use institutional digital tools more effectively
  • apply governance and policy in practical research situations
  • find literature, manage references and review research writing with collaborators
  • make better everyday decisions about storage, sharing, documentation, and data reuse

The four core lessons cover digital tools, digital delivery, governance and policy, and research data management. Data collection, exploration, interpretation and impact have their own pathway in Methods for Data Science.

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Course Position in the Programme

Essential Digital Skills is part of the wider UoN Digital Skills training offer. It is designed as a practical entry point for learners who want stronger habits before moving into more specialised analytical or programming pathways.

Contributing

Contribution guidance is available in CONTRIBUTING.qmd.