Digital Skills Awareness Courses
For students - available now
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Our Digital Skills Awareness course, developed for UK higher education (HE) institutions, is available 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.
Just wish I’d had this when I first started! All relevant info for studying and helping to use the technology at Birkbeck. All in one place! |
Watch our introductory video!
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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.
Each unit focuses on a particular topic:
Based on 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.
To access the demonstration version of the course and find out how to request a copy, please send us a message, specifying which course you wish to access.
Each unit focuses on a particular topic:
- 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 on 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.
To access the demonstration version of the course and find out how to request a copy, please send us a message, specifying which course you wish to access.
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.
For teaching staff - available now
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While we were working on the Digital Skills Awareness course for students, we started to hear about the need for a similar course for incoming teaching staff, who sometimes enter employment without essential digital skills. This led to some market research and the confirmation that there is indeed a need gap.
This course was developed along the same lines: a "blueprint" Moodle course with basic structure and content, which institutions can adopt, adapt and install locally in order to give their new staff a heads-up about what skills they need for their work and - crucially - steer them to where they can acquire and improve these skills. |
Each unit focuses on a particular topic:
- Policy
Accessibility, GDPR, IP - General Technologies
Working with files, software and applications, the Internet, safety and security - The Learning Environment
Online learning environments, interacting with students, video, submitted work, analytics - Pedagogy
Learning design, teaching and learning in the digital age
We are working on our offer for the digital skills development of academics and think that the course you have put together could really help frame what we are trying to do. |
To access the demonstration version of this course and find out how to request a copy, please send us a message specifying which course you wish to access.
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The approach we took in developing and offering both of our digital awareness courses was recognised in June 2021, when we were delighted to be awarded the Roger Mills Prize for Innovation in Learning and Teaching.
