Online CPD programme launched to support staff delivering new essential digital skills qualifications | FE News

A new programme of online training and community support has been launched today by @E_T_Foundation to support teachers and trainers who will be delivering courses related to the new legal digital entitlement by Education and Training Foundation (ETF).

Online CPD programme launched to support staff delivering new essential digital skills qualifications
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This will fund all adults with no or low digital skills to study on specified qualifications free of charge – initially essential digital skills qualifications from 2020 and then new digital Functional Skills Qualifications from 2021. The programme to help prepare staff is being run by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) with funding from the Department for Education.

The core of the new programme consists of 20 short, online training modules covering the five skills areas of the new national standards introduced in April 2019, together with an online community of practice to enable peer-to-peer support. Practitioners will be invited to assess their readiness to teach courses for the new entitlement through an online self-assessment tool as a first step. The whole offer is hosted on the ETF’s Enhance Digital Teaching Platform, which has been designed to make training easy to access anytime, anywhere and on any device, especially mobiles.

The online programme is complemented by a series of face-to-face workshops and online webinars which are already underway...

Further information can be found on the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform.
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Source: FE News