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AELP Webinar: Empowering Learners with Digital Skills for Life and Work
Facilitator: Christine Edwards QTLS, Creating Excellence
Overview
Digital capability is no longer optional—it’s a core life skill, as vital as maths and English. Whether it’s managing everyday online tasks or thriving in a fast-changing workplace, learners need the confidence and skills to succeed in a digital world.
This interactive webinar will:
- Demystify the digital skills landscape—exploring why digital capability is now central to employability, inclusion and lifelong learning.
- Clarify EDS and DFSQs—understanding how they connect, and what this means for your delivery.
- Provide practical strategies—showing how to embed digital skills seamlessly across programmes, from adult education to apprenticeships.
- Connect digital to sustainability and progression—highlighting how building capability supports Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and learner futures.
You’ll leave with clear, actionable ideas to strengthen your organisation’s digital skills offer—and to better equip your learners to live, work and progress with confidence.
Objectives
By the end of this session, delegates will:
- Navigate the policy landscape with confidence—understanding the role of Essential Digital Skills (EDS) and Digital Functional Skills (DFSQs) in today’s learning and employability agenda.
- Spot opportunities to embed digital learning across existing programmes, apprenticeships and adult provision.
- Apply practical strategies to build both staff and learner confidence in using and developing digital skills.
- Make clear connections between digital capability, employability, inclusion and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
- Take away tools and prompts to review and enhance their organisation’s current digital skills strategy.
Fees
Member Rate £69.00 + VAT
Non Member Rate £119.00 + VAT
Empowering Learners with Digital Skills for Life and Work
Webinars on demand
Last published: 20/01/2026
