NUML DIGITAL SKILLS SOCIETY

Hello and Aslam-o-Alikum, I am Abdullah Saeed Abbasi along with my fellow Junaid Ahmed Dashti, students of BS-4(Public Administration and Governance) at NUML University Islamabad. We were assigned to write a blog on the project done by our seniors titled "NUML DIGITAL SKILLS SOCIETY" related to SDG-8(Decent Work and Economic Growth). This project was done by our seniors, currently students of BS-5(Public Administration and Governance);

1- Areeba Abid

➢ Project Director

2- Daniyal

➢ Project Coordinator

3- Irfan Haider

➢ Social Media Manager

4- Rehan Ali

➢ Liaison Manager

5- Sami Ullah

➢ Finance Manager

6- Sadia Aslam

➢ Research Analyst

LOGO:

Here is the logo of that project:

                                             

VISION

To create a sustainable digital ecosystem at Higher Education Institutes.

 MISSION

Empowering youth through the development of Digital Skills and Digital Literacy.

RESEARCH AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

This study aims to present a descriptive and comparative analysis focusing on digital competences in three different areas: Use, Learning and Critical thinking, justified in a global situation of  intensive use of technology.

This study aims to understand the importance of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 in society. As well as identify the strategies developed by higher education institutions (HEI’s) to follow and contribute to the economic and social development of the regions.

This study aims to characterize the level of digital competences of university faculty and to analyze some of the conditioning factors. In particular, it aims to examine the influence of certain sociodemographic characteristics, such as gender or generational cohort, on the level of digital skills achieved by teachers. In addition, the study aims to identify whether the technological endowment of the educational institution and the type of digital skills training provided predict to some extent a higher or lower level of digital competence of university faculty:

1. To perform SWOT analysis of the current business curriculum already approved by HEC
2. To conduct interviews with the corporate sector stake holders to know their requirements in the changing scenario and particularly Pak-China Economic corridor (CPEC)
3. To find out the ways and means to make the current curriculum more market oriented.
4. To bring recommendations beside the HEC for improvement in Business education curriculum.

 Aim is to study and analyze the most complete theories about digital skills and the generational profiles of the entire population.

• Determine the extent of the use of technological devices as well as the Internet by the student body in    informal environments.
• Ascertain the degree to which ICTs are integrated into the daily life of the Z Generation.
• Ascertain the levels of digital skills by competency areas: information, communication, context creation, security, and problem solving.
• Analyze the results as a function of the sample characteristics for a better generalization of findings.
• Understand the possible implications of the findings in terms of teaching and training of the student body and, in view of the results obtained, study the curricular inclusion potential.

This paper focuses on the key role of digital literacy and the skills of students to use new technology that will have an increasing role in the integration in the European Higher Education Area. The aim of the survey is to understand: 

1. How university students use information technology in the course of their training.
2. What is the level of digital literacy of students in humanities. 
3. What is the motivation of students to enhance their digital literacy skills and competences.
4. What are the ways and means of improving the level of digital literacy of university students      (especially from first and second courses).

METHODOLOGY:

• Non-experimental quantitative and descriptive comparative research.
• Exploratory study, using semi-structured interviews and questionnaires.
• A cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational analytical observational study was carried out.

1. To study the need of the corporate sector both public and private and a survey will be conducted   

    concerning:

               a. Existing staff

               b. Lacking in the existing staff

               c. Future business plan (extension, diversification, merger etc.) and HR needs.

               d. Reasons for noncompeting with MNC’s and how to overcome

               e. How to develop business plans

               f. To establish business incubation centre in universities.

2. To study the fact that most government colleges have started master programs, but all are theory

    based. 

• Similarly, most of the universities are having affiliated institutes who primarily depend on visiting faculty and rely only on theory not on practice.
• Preliminary research
• Quantitative Research
• Empirical survey

NEW YEAR RESOLUTION

Date: 31st Dec 2021
Details:

In our new year resolution activity, we asked different students to self-analyze themselves and 

think of a digital skill that they would like to learn in 2022 to get better at their workplace. We 

get to know numerous skills on which we are surely going to work in 2022. We aim to scale 

up our project in 2022 with great zeal and zest. Keep Learning New Skills. Stay Awesome!

  

CONCLUSION/SUMMARY:

“Numl Digital Skills Society” project which was based on SDG No.8 “Decent Work and Economic Growth” worked from 27^th September 2021 to 1^st February. Their mission was to create an enabling environment for youth through the development of digital skills and digital literacy. This project covered the area of National University of Modern Languages. Institution they contacted, worked with and discussed the project were the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, National Skills University, Islamabad., NAVTTC, TEVTA, Digital Pakistan Academy, Digiskills.pk, SMEDA (Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority.

This project was mainly designed for youth and student. The main works on this project included Survey assessment, crash courses, webinar, workshops, meeting and other activities. They conducted crash courses for five days which include SPSS and Meta-analysis courses for three days and other courses they did were graphic designing and freelancing for two days. They conducted workshop to spread awareness and they practices Video editing, web designing, MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel and also told about content writing. They conducted a successful webinar on digital skills and freelancing and digital leadership. The core purpose of this project was to aware students about digital marketing and digital work.