Blended Learning Essentials: Digitally-Enriched Apprenticeships (FutureLearn)

Blended Learning Essentials: Digitally-Enriched Apprenticeships (FutureLearn)

A CPD course for apprenticeship providers looking to enhance their courses with digital technology for the modern workplace. Enhance apprentices’ experience with digital technology. Apprenticeships are changing. The UK Government has introduced new standards to ensure apprentices are receiving quality training. Discover how using digital technology can enrich your apprentices’ experience and open up opportunities for your organisation.

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You’ll learn how to weave in digital resources across the whole apprentice journey from preparation to end-point assessment. You’ll navigate through the Jisc Apprenticeship Toolkit stages of Preparation, Planning, Delivery and Assessment which will help you develop your own designs for a digitally-enriched apprenticeship programme.

Syllabus

Week 1: Apprenticeships: The role of the trainer in a digital age
Week 2: Delivering apprenticeship programmes in a digital age

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Explore the role of the trainer in apprenticeships in the digital age.
  • Describe the role of digital in preparing for a trainer’s or organisation’s readiness for the apprenticeship programme.
  • Develop plans for using digital tools in the delivery of an apprenticeship programme.
  • Investigate the use of digital tools for supporting learners and apprentices.
  • Identify good practice in using digital tools for collecting evidence.
  • Explain the potential in using digital tools for the end-point assessment.

Who is the course for?
This course is open to everyone, but is particularly aimed at those working in further education, skills training, vocational education, workplace learning, and lifelong learning or adult education.
If you work with apprentices as a trainer in a college, within an employment organisation or in an independent provider, this course is for you.
We provide a range of accreditation pathways, whether you are directly supporting learners or delivering training and seek to use blended learning more effectively.

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