Insights
We act based on what we know and we always learn from what we do. We also think that sharing and collaborating is the best way to move things forward. Take a look at our research and insights and get in touch if you want to talk to us about what we do.
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Peer-research – a participant’s perspective
Following some peer research we did for Get Online Week, our annual campaign for improving digital skills, Peer Researcher Amanda shares her thoughts on the campaign.
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Clicking On In Sunderland
A report on Peer Research Findings and Recommendations for Make It Click - a two-year project which aims to shift the dial on helping ‘limited users’ of the internet in the UK to gain the confidence and new skills they need to thrive online.
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Broadening digital skills for future work
Good Things Foundation and Accenture partnered together to deliver the Future Proof: Skills for Work project, which sought to engage and support individuals with limited digital skills to prosper in the 21st-century workplace.
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Gaining and sustaining digital skills
Good Things Foundation Researcher, Joseph Chambers, discusses how the Future Proof: Skills for Work programme, which aims to equip learners with digital skills and supporting change to the underlying behaviours driving their learning.
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Participating in a digital economy
This report draws on our findings and existing evidence and presents recommendations for how we can enable more people and businesses to participate fully in a digital economy.
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Improving digital skills for small and micro businesses
This report summarises research exploring challenges to equipping small businesses and sole traders with the skills to flourish in a digital economy, and recommendations on how to overcome these.
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Future Digital Inclusion: Delivering basic digital skills for those in need
This report aims to understand the mechanisms behind FDI: the resources that different types of Online Centre have at their disposal, and which are most important for different types of learner.
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Blended learning: what is it, and what are its advantages?
Our Curriculum Development Manager, Laura Faulkner, explains what blended learning is and its advantages.
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Motivational barriers of non-users of the internet
A report on the findings of Good Things Foundation, Professor Simeon Yates (University of Liverpool), and BT's partnership research into understanding motivational barriers of non-users of the internet.
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Deconstruct to reconstruct: building a research approach for growth
Our Head of Research, Al Mathers, looks at how agile working principles can be applied within research.
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Testing Digital Inclusion in Kenya
Read about our top findings from our year-long Digital Life: Kenya project, piloting the use of Learn My Way by the Kenya National Library Service.
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Reflections on learning
Learning Manager, Kevin Maye, takes a look at some learning theories and how we can use them to improve our online platform of free digital skills courses, Learn My Way.