Posted on Tue 27 Jun, 2023 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Vikki Liogier, the ETF’s National Head of EdTech and Digital Skills, explains how the growth of hybrid teaching is reflected in the recently-published revised Digital Teaching Professional Framework.
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Posted on Tue 27 Jun, 2023 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Ther ETF’s National Head of EdTech and Digital Skills, Vikki Liogier, explores how embracing the SAMR model – which was developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura – can unlock digital technology’s full potential, revolutionising education and empowering learners.
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Posted on Thu 6 Apr, 2023 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Education and Training Foundation National Head of EdTech and Digital Skills Vikki Liogier reports back from DigiFest on a new Community of Practice that is seeking to help leaders overcome digital culture challenges.
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Posted on Thu 6 Apr, 2023 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Ahead of the launch of the ETF’s new ‘Governance of digital learning’ module this Summer, one of its creators – Geoff Rebbeck – considers what governors need to understand to ensure their institution is supporting and educating learners and previews how the module will support them to do so.
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Posted on Mon 16 Jan, 2023 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
ETF National Head of EdTech and Digital Skills Vikki Liogier considers the role of governors in ensuring FE and Training providers are equipping learners with the digital skills they need.
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Posted on Mon 18 Oct, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
In #GetOnlineWeek, Sally Betts from Ideas4Learning, trainer on the Education and Training Foundation’s Essential Digital Skills Programme, talks about the ‘How to Teach Essential Digital Skills’ CPD series and why it matters.
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Posted on Mon 13 Sep, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
ETF National Head of EdTech and Digital Skills Vikki Liogier profiles the Education and Training Foundation’s support for those involved in the delivery of Essential Digital Skills.
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Posted on Thu 6 May, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Drawing on research with ESOL practitioners in formal and informal settings, Head of Essential and Life Skills at Learning and Work Institute Alex Stevenson reflects on the links between basic digital skills and other basic skills, including literacy and ESOL.
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Posted on Tue 4 May, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Sarah Knight, Head of Learning and Teaching Transformation at Jisc, looks at the findings of its recent research on learners’ experiences and expectations of digital learning and asks what can be learnt from them.
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Posted on Wed 28 Apr, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Emma Langlois, Digital Skills and Preparation for Work Curriculum Manager at Manchester Adult Education, reflects on the lessons that have been learned during the implementation of its Digital Skills for Beginners course.
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Posted on Mon 26 Apr, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Dr Sue Pember CBE, Policy Director for Holex, considers the increased importance of digital skills for adult learners as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the challenges that must be overcome, including how and by whom they can be most effectively taught.
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Posted on Thu 22 Apr, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
In the fifth of a series of Essential Digital Skills ‘Thought Pieces’, Novus Digital Learning Lead Steve Grix focuses on the importance of digital skills to learners in the Prison Education Framework.
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Posted on Wed 21 Apr, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Mary Moss, a member of the ETF’s Essential Digital Skills CPD support programme delivery team, reviews some of the current literature to gain an understanding of what constitutes effective digital practice.
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Posted on Tue 20 Apr, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
Emma Watson OBE of Digital Unite argues that not only do practitioners need to think about how developing their learners’ digital skills will develop their learning capacity overall, they must also address the more pressing pandemic-provoked question of how they do this remotely.
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Posted on Thu 15 Apr, 2021 | Category EdTech & Essential Digital Skills
When thinking about teaching digital skills, whether directly as an Essential Digital Skills (EDS) course or embedded into other courses and subjects, it is also important to think about the skills and experiences of the teaching staff who will deliver these qualifications and develop these skills in our learners.
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