INVITATION: to Beta test a UVAC created Practitioner App on Digital Competency

UVAC has developed an innovative app that supports lecturers, trainers, and practitioners in apprenticeship and work-based learning programmes to build digital capability and embed it into their teaching and practice. It supports confidence-building in AI, digital ethics, inclusive design, and more through interactive modules, self-assessments, and personalised recommendations.

UVAC needs willing testers from across its membership to feedback on value and functionality.

This development has arisen out of research undertaken by UVAC that identified low digital and AI education amongst practitioners of technical and vocational education including in apprenticeships which impacts on the quality of blended models of teaching and learning. You can read the related research article published in Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning HERE called Learning from digital adaptations to the pandemic: enhancing work-based higher education. We presented earlier versions at UVAC’s national conference in recent years.

The GenIE mobile app is free to use until the end of March 2026 for feedback and testing.

Details of how to use:

• Visit: gen-ie.app (QR code HERE)

• Enter access code: ATC2026

• Create an account and start exploring

• Option to install GenIE to their mobile home screen

Specific Areas to Evaluate
1. Is the content accurate and relevant to the FE/HE context?

2. Are quiz questions clear and fair?

3. Do scenario-based questions feel realistic?

4. Is the language appropriate (British English, FE/HE terminology)?

5. Does GenieAI give sensible, helpful responses?

6. Are the accessibility options working (try dark mode, text size, dyslexia font)?

7. Does it work on your mobile/tablet as well as desktop?

For Each Issue Found, Please Note:
What you were doing
What you expected to happen
What actually happened
Screenshot if possible

What you get:

• Free access until end of March

• Full access to all 20 modules, self-paced

• Opportunity to provide feedback to shape the platform

PLUS certification that you can locate on Social Media such as LinkedIn.

Every completed activity earns experience points (XP).

The delegate with the most XP by 31 March wins a VERY NICE prize.

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