The Enhance Digital Teaching Platform
Mandatory Digital Skills Online CPD
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It is inevitable that learning and working post COVID-19 will be more blended and digitally enabled than it was before. As a college, we understand that in order to successfully manage this change we need to create a wealth of opportunities for personal and professional development in this area. We have therefore devised a blended learning CPD programme for all staff to develop their essential digital skills and broaden their digital awareness. The Enhance Digital Teaching Platform is just one part of that programme. No matter what your role is within the organisation, it will provide you with a clear development pathway that will map and track your level of confidence and competency in regards to core digital technologies.
What is the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform?
What is the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform?
The Enhance Digital Teaching Platform from the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) hosts two fully-subsidised training offers to support teachers and trainers in using educational technology (EdTech) and developing their digital skills.
The Essential Digital Skills (EDS) offer - to help ANY member of staff within the college looking to improve their essential digital skills - no matter what your role!
The Educational Technology (EdTech) offer - to help teachers and trainers develop and redefine their practice using technology.
For an overview and walk through of the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform, please watch the video above (or click this link)
What do I need to do?
What do I need to do?
All staff:
Learn - Firstly, familiarise yourself with the platform by reading/watching the materials below so that you have a good knowledge of how it works, the difference between the 2 offers and how to complete your initial self-assessment.
Sign up - Over the next week or so, you will receive an email to ‘sign up’ to the ETF’s Enhance Digital Teaching Platform. Please click on the link, create a secure password and click to agree to ‘share your data’ (if prompted). You are now on the platform.*
Complete your initial assessment and remember to click ‘Save’
* Should you not have received the email (after checking your SPAM) let me know on drimmer@wvr.ac.uk and I will send you a direct link.
PLUS....
Non-teaching staff:
Complete a minimum of 3 modules from the platform. Your capability profile, created as a result of your self-assessment, will suggest some modules for you, but feel free to select any 3 modules that you like. The deadline is the 6th of September.
Teaching staff:
Complete modules within the 60-Minute Starter Pack. The starter pack is an interactive PDF that signposts you to 12 specific training modules which have been selected to give you a good overview of the basics. Each module is only five minutes long so if you do them all, it will take you 60 minutes. The deadline is the 6th of September.
Should you have any questions at all, please contact myself on drimmer@wvr.ac.uk
What are the 2 different training offers?
What are the 2 different training offers?
As mentioned above, the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform hosts two training offers within the one platform. For a closer look at each one, please click on the images below.
The Essential Digital Skills (EDS) offer - to help all those staff who will deliver new digital skills qualifications as well as ANY member of staff within the college looking to improve their essential digital skills - no matter what your role!
*Suitable for ALL staff*
The Educational Technology (EdTech) offer - to help teachers and trainers develop and redefine their practice using technology.
*Most suited for Teachers, Learning Facilitators, Progress Coaches*
How does it work?
How does it work?
For a clear explanation of how to navigate and use the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform please watch the video above (or click on this link)
The platform has a friendly and clear feel with a simple navigation menu across the top including:
• A search function
• My Learning
• Categories
• EDS for the Essential Digital Skills offer
• EdTech for the EdTEch offer
• A toggle button
• Login
• Signup
The toggle button allows you to switch on a dark theme. This will facilitate streaming when connection and bandwidth are poorer. At any time you can return to the home page by clicking the ETF logo.
How do I use the EDS Self-Assessment Tool?
How do I use the EDS Self-Assessment Tool?
The platform has a built-in initial self-assessment tool which is designed to help you rate your confidence in relation to the new national standards for Essential Digital Skills. It will also:
Help you to reflect on your existing skills and experience
Identify where you need additional training support and guide you to relevant training modules
Provide you with an EDS capability profile, which will be updated as you progress through the training modules to show your professional development
Open up access to our EDS community of practice
*To start any of the training modules, you will need to complete your self-assessment*
For an explanation of how to complete your self-assessment, please watch the video above (or click this link)
There are 17 confidence sliders to rate yourself, mapped onto the five categories of the national standards. The ratings go from 1 (not very confident) to 7 (very confident). It should take 10-15 minutes to complete.
You can either use the slider to rate your confidence 1 to 7 or you can use the rating statements to guide you. As you click on each rating, you will see a different statement appear. Click ‘View all options’ below the slider to view all the statements at once. If more than one statement applies, choose the lowest scoring statement and start at the suggested point in the module.
As you go through the self-assessment, for each slider, you can also use the comments boxes to add any notes or thoughts you wish to record whilst thinking about your confidence.
*Don't forget to press ‘Save’ to view your Capability Profile*
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