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Blended Learning Essentials: Developing Digital Skills

This course will enable you, as a teacher or trainer to develop your learners’ digital skills for successful employment and progress in the modern workplace.

Duration

2 weeks

Weekly study

4 hours

Included in an ExpertTrack

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Why join the course?

Almost every job now involves a range of digital skills, yet employers report a shortage in skilled new starters. This course will enable you, as a teacher or trainer, to develop your learners’ digital skills for successful employment and progress in the modern workplace.

Through real-life case studies, resources and practical support, you’ll be able to help your learners manage their online identity and digital information required for their work. You’ll be shown how to assist learners to create digital content and provide you with tools for communicating effectively and working collaboratively.

Build different approaches for teaching digital skills

Explore the different ways of teaching digital skills and find out how you can apply them to your own subject and teaching approach. This will allow you to prepare learners to meet the demand for digital skills in the workplace. You will test out a number of different exercises and platforms to develop their understanding further.

Teach your learners to create and publish digital content

Creating digital content is a common task across a variety of positions and industries. Teach your learners how to create basic and advanced content, and review the tools available for both the training and the task. You’ll even learn how to help them work collaboratively online, adding another set of useful skills to their repertoire.

Week 1
The skills for managing online identity and digital information
- Welcome
  Before you get started take some time to meet the educators who will support you through the course. There's also an opportunity to meet your fellow learners, identify your learning goals and plan your learning journey.
- Raising awareness of digital skills being used in the workplace
  This first activity explores the broad issue of digital skills, and how they apply to the contemporary workplace.
- Ways of teaching digital skills
  This second activity explores ways of teaching digital skills, and how these might be applied to your own subject/training areas.
- Managing a digital identity
  This activity moves onto the 1st type of digital skill: managing a digital identity.
- Managing digital information
  This activity engages you with the 2nd type of digital skill: managing digital information.
- Summary
  This reinforces what has been learnt so far, and orients you in the next week of the course.
Week 2
The skills for digital content creation and collaboration
- Welcome to week 2
  This second week will focus on the third and fourth digital skills from the framework: Digital content creation and Digital collaboration.
- Creating basic digital content
  In this activity you learn some of the ways in which young people are required to create digital content in the workplace, and you are introduced to tools that can be used to achieve this.
- Creating advanced digital content
  In this activity we introduce content which shows how young people are required to be able to create digital content in the workplace, and introduce tools that can be used to achieve this.
- Publishing digital content
  In this activity we discuss copyright and the factors that need to be considered when publishing digital content. We will also explore the different licences that are available.
- Collaborative digital content creation
  In this activity we will explore the fourth and final skill from the digital skills framework, how digital content can be created collaboratively and how to work collaboratively online.
- Summary
  We end with a summary of what you've learned on the course.