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Digital Skills

This section provides development courses to support with managing your digital identity and digital wellbeing.

Digital identity management

Digital identity is how you develop and project a digital identity – or several identities – and how you manage your digital reputation.

Most of us have identities distributed across a range of platforms and media. Do you keep these separate, or aim to make them work together? How do you manage assets such as profiles, records of achievement, contacts and networks to achieve your personal goals?

Examples include:

  • The capacity to: develop and project a positive digital identity or identities and to manage digital reputation (personal, professional or organisational) across a range of platforms; build and maintain digital profiles and other identity assets such as records of achievement; review the impact of online activity including AI and Generative AI, collate and curate personal materials across digital networks.
  • An understanding of the reputational benefits and risks involved in digital participation.
  • An understanding around inclusion aspects relating to opportunities for developing digital identities.

Some courses that you would benefit from if you are wanting to increase this digital identity management:

Digital wellbeing

Digital wellbeing is about the impact of using digital devices, tools, services and systems on you as a person.

It relates to how you look after your personal health, safety, relationships and work-life balance in digital settings.

You might use digital data and devices for personal health goals or in learning or work contexts, to participate in social activities or help out in your community.

We all need to manage digital stress, workload and distraction and know where to find help and support. We could all learn to use digital tools with more concern for each other and for the wider world.

Examples include:

  • The capacity to: look after personal health, safety, relationships and work-life balance in digital settings; use digital tools in pursuit of personal goals (eg health and fitness) and to support participation in social and community activities; act safely and responsibly in digital environments; negotiate and resolve conflict; manage digital workload, overload and distraction; act with concern for the human and natural environment when using digital tools.
  • An understanding of the benefits and risks of digital participation in relation to health and wellbeing outcomes (eg ergonomics, environmental impact, managing finances, mental health).
  • An understanding of the ways in which digital tools including Generative AI and services can both support additional needs or have negative impacts around equity, diversity and inclusion.

Some courses to support digital wellbeing: