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With Digital Literacy

What is the Digital Skills Gap?

The digital skills gap refers to the growing gap between the current workforce’s ability to navigate technology and the digitally-reliant society we have created.

In other words, our current population of students and employees are struggling to navigate the new landscape because they may have limited digital skills. In order to close the gap, schools and organisations need to upskill their community to ensure they have the skills needed to independently navigate new platforms, resources, and devices.

Students Lack the Skills

RTOs must assess and verify digital capability by July 2025, yet there's no standardized assessment framework mapped to the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). This puts both institutions and students at risk.

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With Certificate I units removed from IT packages, students are struggling to jump directly into level 2 courses. This creates a critical gap in foundational digital skills, particularly affecting neuro-diverse and disengaged learners.

While students appear tech-savvy with social media, they lack fundamental workplace digital skills. RTOs are finding a significant gap between perceived and actual digital competence.

One in four Australians are digitally excluded, creating a critical challenge for RTOs to effectively assess and support student digital literacy before they begin their courses.

Registered Training Organisations

Developing digital capability is an essential skill in today's world, necessary for long-term success in work, learning and life.

The Digital Literacy Licence enables RTOs to benchmark a student’s level of digital literacy against the Australian Digital Capability Framework prior to enrolment and determine their learning and support needs.

Address identified gaps using our self-paced online microcredentials to ensure you are providing your students with the edge to employability pathways.

Empowering Teachers to Better Support their Learners!

As educators, we have a responsibility to accommodate every learning style, ensure the quality of our teaching material and equip students with the skills to navigate digital spaces effectively.

The use of technology can unlock limitless potential in the classroom, and the best way to know how to harness that power is by undertaking an Educator Capability Licence: designed for teachers by teachers.

The Digital Literacy Licence: A Comprehensive Solution

Recognising the pivotal role of digital literacy in driving Australia's digital competitiveness, VETNexus has developed the Digital Literacy Licence (DLL), a comprehensive program designed to equip learners and professionals with the essential digital skills they need to succeed.

The DLL program is meticulously crafted to align with the Australian Digital Capability Framework (ADCF) and the Digital Literacy Skills Framework (DLSF), ensuring that participants receive a well-rounded education.

Through a combination of interactive learning modules, hands-on activities, and real-world scenarios, the DLL program empowers participants to:

Develop a deep understanding of the digital landscape and its impact on various aspects of life

  • Cultivate critical thinking skills to evaluate the credibility of online information sources

  • Enhance their ability to communicate and collaborate effectively in digital environments

  • Create compelling digital content that resonates with their target audience

  • Implement robust cybersecurity measures to safeguard their digital identities and data

  • Embrace the principles of digital ethics and responsible technology use

By equipping individuals with these comprehensive digital skills, the DLL program not only addresses Australia's current digital competitiveness challenges but also future-proofs the workforce, ensuring they possess the agility and adaptability to thrive in an ever-evolving digital world.

What’s included?

  • Story-Telling Approach to Learning

    The lessons begin with story-telling, mixed in with some decision-making. Go on a journey with our DLL characters as they learn all about navigating a digital world. We follow this group of friends and family throughout the four levels of the program, learning alongside them.

  • Interactive Content

    The program involves the participant in completing activities along the way to reinforce the messages from the characters and stories as well as the subsequent content that is presented. By the time the participant reaches the assessment points, they have already undertaken a range of activities to reinforce the message.

  • Activity Type Indicators

    There are consistent markers across the program to highlight the type of activity that is being presented. This may be a video, link to a website, click to reveal, or a drag and drop style activity. It is quick and easy to identify the type of activity by glancing at the top corner of the slide.

  • Content Outlines

    Each lesson begins with a Lesson Roadmap that outlines the content that will be covered in the lesson. Each GPS indicator on the map provides additional detail on each topic.

A large state college in Queensland pioneers the Digital Literacy Licence (DLL) to help students bridge the digital divide and build confidence

Kelvin Grove State College (KGSC) in Brisbane, Queensland boasts being one of the largest schools in the Southern Hemisphere.  In December 2022, the leadership team of KGSC agreed to trial the DLL Provisional Level and Level 1 programs in their Years 7-9 classrooms.  

Sue Isbell, Head of eLearning for the College, pioneered the program with DLL, with an Expression of Interest (EOI) process offered to 12-14 year old students, with parent permissions, during the finalisation of the school year (activities week).  

Challenges to adopting the program inside the public facility classrooms included being able to show the security of information and storage in a data sovereign location.

The program was designed to give students the confidence and digital literacy skills to transition through high school where students use laptops and start to move into more mature learning environments and skilling towards entering the world of work.  

The Provisional Level of the DLL covers topics such as digital devices, introduction to the internet including software navigation, cyber and eSafety along with digital maintenance.

“We’re pleased students will be able to access online resources for education and career development. Additionally, the students are better equipped to use digital technologies in their everyday lives. As eLearning Head of Department and Digital Technologies teacher, I’m glad to see a product that is assisting the students and teachers with this content in an ever-changing landscape.”
— Sue Isbell, KGSC

THE IMPACT

As a result of the program, the students had increased access to digital literacy information and resources and became better prepared for the digital world. The students reported that the program helped them to better understand the importance of digital literacy and the opportunities it presents.  The students are better equipped to access and use digital technologies, which helps to bridge the digital divide and create equal opportunities for all students.

Thank you to Sue and the leadership team at Kelvin Grove State College. As a result of this pilot, DLL has been able to make improvements in processes and content based on participant and teacher feedback.

We’re proud of the student feedback above and to have lived our vision of empowering people to navigate a digital world.

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“There’s a gap in our accredited learning... having the DLL which is self-paced, self-marking and didn’t require a TAE to deliver, was an attractive option for us as a starting point. Our youth workers were strongly recommended to do the program themselves and completed it on one professional development day.”
— Sandra Larritt, RTO Manager, Edmund Rice Education Australia

The Problem.

As the world has increasingly become technology bound, there are millions of people who no longer have the skills that enable them to successfully interact in their education, workplace of even at home.

Why we Exist

The Solution.

Digital Literacy Licence is your online delivering solution. Providing a huge range of training programmes our education platform is designed to be customised to meet your needs.

Who we Are.

As an organisation we are a group of digital educators, technologists, prophets, and futurists. Our team is comprised of many of Australia’s most successful Digital Professionals.