Digital Academy

Digital Skills: Embracing Digital Technology

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By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Demonstrate how to register and log in to websites, navigate the web, create social media profiles for well known platforms
  • Investigate and search for resources to support your job-seeking, studies and daily life
  • Collaborate and work together safely online and use online communities to develop your skills and receive support, as well as understand the importance of a personal learning network
  • Produce advanced digital content and post it to appropriate platforms
  • Identify and discriminate between trustworthy and untrustworthy communications and content online
  • Reflect systematically on your own learning progress
  • Develop your own personal plan for learning beyond the course and using your new skills effectively
  • Basics of online safety
  • Online behaviours
  • Meeting online friends
  • Dealing with online scams
  • Introduction to digital wellbeing
  • Building healthy digital habits
  • How websites manage your behaviour
  • Introduction to public services online
  • Using online government services
  • Using online council services
  • Introduction to artificial intelligence

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Contributed by: Digital Academy
Authored by: Future Learn
Licence: More information on licences
Last updated: 13 August 2025
First contributed: 03 June 2025
Audience access level: Full user

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