Blended Learning Essentials: Developing Digital Skills Preview Webinar

A RECORDING of the session is now available to view.

The session slides can be accessed here.

This session provides a preview of Blended Learning Essentials: Developing Digital Skills, a two-week course starting on FutureLearn on 16 April 2018.  

The course, commissioned and funded by the Ufi Charitable Trust, is designed specifically for the Vocational Education and Training sector seeks to address the digital skills shortage reported by employers by giving teachers and trainers the knowledge and the confidence to teach the necessary skills, enabling students to bring much-needed digital skills to the workplace. It also enables teachers to train their learners to manage their digital footprint.

The course includes examples of tools and apps that can help teachers to develop digital creation skills in their learners. It covers a wide range of vocational education settings, and all kinds of learners, with a variety of expectations and needs. It is based on the needs of employers and on the real experience of how digital skills are being used at work.

As the course takes places entirely online, it is flexible and can be completed at the participant’s own pace. It will be delivered on Futurelearn, the UK’s leading platform for delivering open courses. The course starts on 16 April and is free of charge.

This webinar gives a preview of the course content and how to take part. It will run in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, and can be accessed from the following link on the day:

https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/9d1baea372084546a0cd9db70b01386e

Find out more and join the course: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/blended-learning-digital-skills.

Blended Learning Essentials is a free online course developed by the University of Leeds and UCL Institute of Education, supported by the Association for Learning Technology and funded by the Ufi Trust.

You can contact Blended Learning Essentials by emailing ble@alt.ac.uk, follow it on Twitter @BLECourseand #FLble3

When
12 Apr 2018 from 12:30 PM to  1:30 PM
Location
Online
United Kingdom