Digital Skills Awareness Course
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Our Digital Skills Awareness course is available for UK higher education (HE) institutions to roll out to students before they start university. This resource will provide new students with advice and guidance to help them have a successful learning experience at university.
The course outlines the key digital skills students need for their studies and helps them identify the skills they have and the ones they need to acquire or improve. While the course doesn’t focus on teaching practical digital skills, it provides valuable tips from a variety of sources, including university support staff and students, as well as helpful resources and videos. |
Watch our introductory video!
Each unit focuses on a particular topic:
Based under a Creative Commons licence, this generic Moodle course can be tailored and personalised to fit the local needs of your university once installed on your own Virtual Learning Environment.
Sarah Sherman, BLE Service Manager, said:
“Our pilot went really well, and students provided us with excellent feedback. We have had so much interest in our course already from across the UK. We are now really excited to be able to share our work with the wider HE sector and look forward to fostering a course community.”
To access the demonstration version of the course and find out how to request a copy, please send us a message.
- General Technologies
Working with files, Microsoft Office applications, browsers and search engines - Learning Technologies
Online learning environments, forums, assignments/assessments and video - Access, Sharing and Safety
Accounts/access, safety, social media and sharing - Getting Organised
Notetaking, referencing and digital wellbeing
Based under a Creative Commons licence, this generic Moodle course can be tailored and personalised to fit the local needs of your university once installed on your own Virtual Learning Environment.
Sarah Sherman, BLE Service Manager, said:
“Our pilot went really well, and students provided us with excellent feedback. We have had so much interest in our course already from across the UK. We are now really excited to be able to share our work with the wider HE sector and look forward to fostering a course community.”
To access the demonstration version of the course and find out how to request a copy, please send us a message.
Designed and developed by:
Sarah Sherman, BLE Service Manager, and Nancy Weitz, Digital Education Specialist, with the advice and guidance of the BLE Advisory Board and a working group of BLE members.