How to Categorise Learner Digital Skills 

Is a lack of digital skills holding your learners back from success? Digital skills have been identified as a barrier for many learners seeking to participate in education. This isn’t an online versus in-person challenge - regardless of the format being delivered, digital skills are necessary for participation in education today. Not only are aspiring learners impacted, but so are educators!

Explore this critical issue in our webinar, "Learner Digital Skills – What Do We Know, What Can We Do" hosted by acclaimed VET researcher Dr. Deniese Cox. This interactive 90-minute session, conducted online via Zoom, is specially designed for VET team members involved in training development, delivery, or management. Dr. Cox's intensive two-year research highlights a pressing challenge: the indispensable role of digital skills in education for both learners and educators, irrespective of the learning format. The webinar will delve into the substantial time educators are allocating to remedial digital skill support, which in some cases, accounts for up to 87% of their teaching load. Attendees will learn effective ways to categorise learner digital skills and will be introduced to a proven 3-step process from the Good Practice Guide for identifying and supporting learners in need. Ideal for practitioners with specialised knowledge in training and assessment, this session promises practical insights and guidelines, offering participants strategies to enhance their digital skill support systems in educational contexts.

With digital skills specifically featured in the new RTO standards, this is a timely discussion for us to be having. This 90-minute session is packed full of useful insights, and there’ll be plenty of opportunities for interaction and questions.

Webinar details

Date: Thursday 20 March 2025

Time: 12.00pm AEDT (Sydney, Melbourne)

Duration: 1.5 hours

Investment: $85.00 inc GST.

10% discount! for VET PD Series subscribers - Use your Voucher Code when registering!

Audience

Any VET team member involved in the development, delivery or management of training

• How much time educators are spending on providing digital skill support
• How to categorise learning digital skills
• How to identify and support learners using a proven 3-step process

Presenters

Deniese Cox - Master Learning & Development

Deniese Cox is known as the go-to source for exceptional online teaching strategies that really are effective. Every research-driven strategy presented by Deniese has been extensively trialed, refined, and proven to work in a variety of VET settings by diverse educators and learners.

With extensive hands-on experience of her own in the online VET space, a Masters in online learning and a PhD in online VET, Deniese is ideally placed to help all educators and teams cut through the noise around teaching online.

Her ongoing research is what enables Deniese to continuously share up-to-date insights, and her commitment to developing practical strategies is what makes her PD presentations really stand out. Consistently one of the highest rated speakers at conferences and events, you don’t want to miss this session.

Qualifications
Master Learning & Development (online learning)
PhD (online VET teaching)

A Statement of Attendance is issued on completion of live event activities.

Note the video recording of the live event will be available to all participants within 7 days after the event, for limited viewing of 30 days.

CORE AREAS

ENGAGING AND SUPPORTING VET STUDENTS (Revised SRTO) - VOCATIONAL LEARNING (SRTO2015)

• FAL. Supporting Learning
  
  • Support individual and group learning

EXTENSION AREAS

TRAINING (Revised SRTO) - VOCATIONAL TRAINING INCLUDING COMPETENCY-BASED TRAINING (SRTO2015)

• LLN. Language, Literacy & Numeracy
  
  • Identify employability skill demands
  • Identify integrated foundation skill resources, strategies, and advice
  • Identify learner and candidate employability skill support needs