Digital Skills

This section provides courses to support with Digital Learning and Development.

Digital learning

Digital learning is the ability to turn digital opportunities into personal learning gains.

In many ways this depends on our general readiness and motivation to learn, but in some ways digital learning involve particular skills. Habits of successful digital learners include: using a range of media such as apps, games and quizzes; participating in courses, discussions and learning networks; using digital tools to plan, reflect and showcase learning; monitoring and self-assessing; managing time and tasks.

Examples include:

• The capacity to: participate in (and benefit from) digital learning opportunities; identify and use digital learning resources; participate in learning dialogues via digital media; use learning apps and services (personal and professional); use digital tools including Generative AI to organise, plan and reflect on learning; record learning events/data and use them for self-analysis, reflection and showcasing of achievement; monitor own progress; participate in digital assessment and receive digital feedback; manage own time and tasks, attention and motivation to learn in digital settings.
• An understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in learning online and your own needs and preferences as a digital learner.

Some courses about digital learning:

Digital teaching

Digital teaching is the ability to support and develop others in digital settings.

This might mean working in a teaching role or as part of a teaching team, or it might mean supporting development less formally, as an appraiser or mentor. As with digital learning, the underlying commitment to development must be there, but the digital tools for realising it present new opportunities and challenges.

Examples include:

• The capacity to make effective use of digital tools (including Generative AI) and resources to: support and develop others in digitally-rich settings; teach; work in a teaching or curriculum team; design learning opportunities; support and facilitate learning; be proactive in peer learning; design and adopt different modes of learning as appropriate (e.g. self-directed, blended, hybrid, hyflex, asynchronous/synchronous).
• An understanding of the educational value and potential of different media for teaching, learning and assessment, and of different educational approaches and their application in digitally rich settings.
• An understanding around technical and intellectual accessibility of content, pedagogical approaches, assessment and supporting digital learners.

Some courses around digital teaching: