Digital competence of the individual pathway
Please note that the following courses are hosted on different platforms, OpenLearn, OpenLearn Create and FutureLearn. Learners will need to register with each platform in order to access the learning.
Low-Budget Video Production: Visual Communication for Small Charities
Introductory level (FutureLearn)
(12 study hours)
Understand how video can expand and enhance your organisation’s communications and develop practical skills for your productions.
How to Learn Online: Getting Started
Introductory level (FutureLearn)
(6 study hours)
Explore the benefits of online learning and discover how to successfully learn online.
Assistive technologies and online learning
Level 3: Advanced – SCQF9-10 (OpenLearn)
(8 study hour, Statement of Participation)
Explore some of the technology that disabled students use when accessing computers and look at the tools and techniques that make it possible for disabled students to engage with online learning.
Building confidence in using online forums
Level 1: Introductory – SCQF7 (OpenLearn)
(8 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course will build your confidence in posting to online learning forums and will help you to understand the value and benefits of participating in them with other online learners.
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Level 2: Intermediate – SCQF8 (OpenLearn)
(8 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course is an introduction to how children use digital technologies, such as mobile applications, digital games and computers, and what they learn from these experiences.
Creating open educational resources
Level 1: Introductory – SCQF7 (OpenLearn)
(15 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course will help you to write a learning course and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice about the techniques and strategies to help the learner.
Creativity, community and ICT
Level 1: Introductory – SQFC7 (OpenLearn)
(20 study hours, Statement of Participation)
his free course engages with the debates surrounding the term 'creativity' and explores ways in which ICT creates new opportunities for creativity and collaborative working.
Get started with online learning
Level 1: Introductory – SQFC7 (OpenLearn)
(6 study hours, Statement of Participation)
In this free online course you will find out what online learning is and what it can offer you. You’ll discover the skills required for online study and evaluate your own study skillset.
Designing the user interface: Text, colour, images, moving images and sound
Level 3: Advanced – SCQF9-10 (OpenLearn)
(4 study hour, Statement of Participation)
This free course will help you understand the effect each software component has on the user and explain how a consistent and thoughtful application of these components can have a significant impact on the look of the final product.
Digital thinking tools for better decision making
Level 1: Introductory – SQFC7 (OpenLearn)
(24 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course starts by placing thinking tools in their historical context and concludes with an examination of their future. During the course, you’re introduced to a wide variety of digital thinking tools.
Internet of everything
Level 1: Introductory – SQFC7 (OpenLearn)
(15 study hours, Statement of Participation)
The goal of this course is to introduce you to fundamental concepts and technologies that enable the internet of everything (IoE) and help you understand its benefits as well as potential risks.
Introducing computing and IT
Level 1: Introductory – SQFC7 (OpenLearn)
(10 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course provides a general overview of how digital technologies have come to dominate virtually every aspect of the modern world and some guidance on how to prepare for this digital life.
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Level 1: Introductory – SQFC7 (OpenLearn)
(16 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course challenges how we view computers through the examples of processors in kitchen scales and digital cameras, as well as examining the work of art that, at heart, is a computer.
IT in everyday life
Level 1: Introductory – SQFC7 (OpenLearn)
(4 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course will enable you to gain an understanding of the information and communication technologies that drive our networked world and how they now permeate our everyday lives.
IT: Information
Level 1: Introductory – SQFC7 (OpenLearn)
(20 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course will look at how news is gathered and the technology that's used for its dissemination. You will also be encouraged to examine how information might be manipulated by questioning its reliability.
IT: Technology news
Level 1: Introductory – SQFC7 (OpenLearn)
(8 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course explores the use of the Web as a resource for keeping up to date, looking at how to assess material available online.
Everyday computer skills: a beginner’s guide to computers, tablets, mobile phones and accessibility
Level 0: Beginner – SCQF6 (OLCreate)
(16 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to get started in this digital world. It explores accessible ways to use computers and the internet.
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world
Level 1: Introductory – SCQF7 (OpenLearn)
(24 study hours, Digital Badge and Statement of Participation)
This free course, Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world, will develop your confidence and skills for life online, whether study, work or everyday life. It explores a range of digital skills and practices, including digital identity, digital well-being, staying safe and legal, finding and using information and online tools, and dealing with information overload.
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Level 1: Introductory – SCQF7 (OpenLearn)
(10 study hours, Statement of Participation)
This free course, preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century, provides a general overview of how digital technology has come to dominate virtually every aspect of the modern world and some guidance on how to prepare for this digital life.
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online
Level 1: Introductory – SCQF7 (OpenLearn)
(24 study hours)
This free online course, Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online, will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how to recognise the threats that could harm you online and the steps you can take to reduce the chances that they will happen to you
