OTLA Digital Projects
This booklet provides ideas and inspiration from five projects awarded funding with the aim of developing outstanding teaching, learning and assessment through digital creativity.
Main Tag: Digital Skills
Government launches EdTech Strategy
The Government’s Education Technology strategy identifies five areas of opportunity where technology can be used to bring about a step change in education, and has a delivery target date of 2021.
Institutes of Technology announced
The government has named the first 12 Institutes of Technology, which it says will be unique collaborations between universities, FE colleges, and employers including Nissan, Siemens and Microsoft. They will specialise in delivering higher level technical training at level four and five in STEM subjects, including digital, advanced manufacturing and engineering.
National Advanced Practitioner Conference 2019
Our end-of-project National Advanced Practitioner Conference was a fitting and well-deserved celebration of the tremendous work carried out by the range of cross-sector, institutional collaborations.
Defining the Advanced Practitioner role
Joss Kang, Programme Director, writes on how research on the Advanced Practitioner role supports and drives the #APConnect Advanced Practitioner Professional Development Programme.
Disadvantaged families to benefit from free early learning apps
Parents will benefit from interactive learning tools and text message tips to support children’s early language and literacy at home, as part of a society-wide push to make sure children start school ready to learn.
Digital Garage online courses
The Digital Garage offers free learning content with a focus on data technology, digital marketing and career development.
Enhance Digital Teaching Platform
The Enhance Digital Teaching Platform from the Education and Training Foundation has been designed to help develop your teaching and training practice using technology.
Accenture Digital Skills
Accenture Digital Skills is a free, interactive series of courses which help and prepare people to build the digital skills necessary to gain a job or start a business.
Free online digital skills courses
Free online digital skills courses from the Open University include take your teaching online, living with the internet and simple coding.
BBC Click
BBC Click aims to provide a user-friendly guide to the latest technology news, issues, gadgets and apps, and is available on TV, radio, i-player and social networks.
Digital Skills in the NHS
This newly published report, led by US academic Eric Topol, predicts that 90% of all NHS jobs will require digital skills within 20 years, and calls for education providers to take action now to ensure that we are able to gain the benefits that digital healthcare technologies offer.