Anna Ashton Scott on Data Literacy in Scotland for Education Technology

Data Skills for Work’s Project Manager, Anna Ashton Scott, has made a guest appearance in Education Technology where she wrote about Empowering Scotland’s learners to lead their data literacy career development.

Anna talks about all things data in Scotland, the importance of upskilling and Inkpath - a skills development platform that’s been helping us make this journey easier for learners.

Working with Inkpath, we gamified the process, creating a ‘fitness tracker for skills’ as we call it. It encourages people to take ownership of their own journey and has a great design and interface.

With our previous processes, we relied on people taking time to respond to emails from us, whereas now providing feedback is quick, easy, more accessible, and far less intimidating. Crucially, learners can take charge of their development.

The new system has also given us more visibility on how we can improve and evolve training against our skills framework – it’s helped us see what further services we could be offering.

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