What is the digital skills programme?
The recent Curriculum and Assessment review (DfE, 2025) asserts that teachers must be 鈥渄igitally confident, skilled and reflective practitioners鈥.
This programme has been designed to support any educator who works in the further education and skills sector to feel confident in their digital skills both in and out of the classroom.
Our suite of online on-demand courses has been split into two separate packages: EdTech and Essential Digital Skills (EDS). You can mix and match and choose which modules will be most useful for you and access them at any time.
Choose your area
This programme has been split into two areas: EdTech and Essential Digital Skills (ESD).
EdTech
- To provide you with the support in how to improve your skills and knowledge to engage learners using effective digital and blended learning.
- Gain practical tips and takeaways to support course design, delivery and learning.
- Explore techniques for collaborative and gamified learning with digital tools.
Explore the courses below:
- Active, collaborative and gamified learning with digital tools
- Creating effective digital learning resources
- Digital literacy, wellbeing and professional responsibility
- Professional learning and leading digital practice
- AI Ethics and Literacy for Educators
- Designing and Facilitating Blended Learning
- Designing Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI
- Digital Inclusion and Accessibility
- Professional Presence and Networking Online
- Emerging Technologies: VR, AR and Analytics
Essential Digital Skills
- Improving your foundational digital skills knowledge for the further education and skills workplace to use digital tools effectively.
- Build digital literacy by exploring the knowledge and skills required to create and edit documents.
- To support everyday tasks as well as how to effectively manage your time in planning and delivering learning.
Explore the courses below:
- Communicating and Sharing Digitally
- Creating and Editing Documents
- Finding and evaluating information
- Working with Digital Media
- Being Responsible Online
- Communicating and Sharing Digitally 2
- Dealing with Technical Problems
- Digital Wellbeing: Staying Healthy While Using Technology
- Managing and Storing Information
- Using Devices
- Creating and Editing Spreadsheets
- Protecting Privacy Online
- Working with Digital Media 2
- Protecting Devices and Data