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Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Katharine Reedy, Natasha Huckle and Wendy Mears and first published in 2016. It was partly updated in 2020 by Sue Lowe. The app lists in Section 2.2 were reviewed and updated by Hannah King.

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