Teaching involves more than just delivering lessons. Educators are responsible for motivating, encouraging and inspiring learners.
If you’re currently teaching, or thinking about becoming a teacher, digital training courses and conferences are a fantastic way to enhance your teaching abilities and develop new skills.
In this article, we’ll be listing digital training courses and conferences for teachers in 2023.
Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training + QTLS
Provider: Teacher Training UK
Duration: 12-18 months
Weekly Study: 3 hours
Start Date: September 2023
Accreditation: Available
The Diplomas in Education and Training is a level 5 qualification in teaching, with both theoretical and practical elements delivered as a virtual course in 3 hour weekly seminars on Tuesdays from 4:30pm - 7:30pm.
This course is suitable for anyone looking to improve their practice as a teacher, coach or trainer.
This virtual course is accredited by Ofqual and has been awarded Provider of Training Excellence by the CPD Standards Office.
By the end of the course, you will have covered the following topics:
- Identifying needs
- Planning learning
- Facilitating learning
- Assessing learning
- Evaluating learning
Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) is for trainers and teachers who teach in the sixth form or above, allowing you to teach adult learners.
Digital Courses in Blended Learning
If you’re keen to develop blended learning techniques and methods, the following online courses are ideal. Throughout this collection, you will understand the main principles of blended learning and how to embed it into your practice.
Blended Learning Essentials: Getting Started
Provider: University of Leeds
Duration: 5 weeks
Weekly Study: 4 hours
Accreditation: Available
This digital course helps teachers to understand the benefits of blended learning and how to effectively use technology in order to support students in their learning.
The Blended Learning Essentials Course has been accredited by the CPD Certification Service, which means it can be used to provide evidence of your continuing professional development.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Identify ways in which new technology can contribute to the difficult challenges facing the VET, FE and Skills sector.
- Evaluate the free or affordable tools available to enhance teaching.
- Apply your knowledge of blended learning to develop training materials using appropriate technologies.
- Evaluate a variety of effective blended learning approaches and apply the most suitable to your delivery.
Blended Learning Essentials: Embedding Practice
Provider: University of Leeds
Duration: 3 weeks
Weekly Study: 4 hours
Accreditation: Available
The Blended Learning Essentials Course has been accredited by the CPD Certification Service, which means it can be used to provide evidence of your continuing professional development.
This digital course helps teachers to embed blended learning practices into their teaching. The course explored how new technology can assist learning from experience, how it helps to overcome common challenges and how to develop your own skills and discover the optimal uses of blended learning.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Apply new technologies in courses and learning opportunities to improve learner outcomes.
- Identify ways in which new technology can contribute to solve key challenges in your learning context.
- Develop your own skills further and contribute to the VET sector’s community knowledge of the optimal uses of blended learning.
Blended Learning Essentials: Developing Digital Skills
Provider: University of Leeds
Duration: 2 weeks
Weekly Study: 4 hours
Accreditation: Available
This online course will allow you to develop your learners’ digital skills for successful employment and progress in the modern workplace. Through real-life case studies, resources and practical support you’ll be able to help your learners manage their online identity.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Allow teachers and trainers to develop their learners to acquire the digital skills needed in the workplace to manage their personal online identity, digital information, create digital content, use tools and techniques for working collaboratively.
- Collaborate on models for teaching digital skills in practice.
- Support teachers and trainers in the VET sector in developing their digital skills.
EdTech World Forum 2023
Date: May 17-18
Location: Kensington Conference & Event Centre, London.
EdTech World Forum is the leading education technology conference for eLearning. The conference takes place over two days and hosts a number of speakers including Google, British Council, PanOpen, UNICEF, Bournemouth University and more.
The agenda features keynotes including:
- Future of Education with EdTech
- Rethinking the Traditional Education Model
- E-Learning and Ethics
- Different Ways to Reduce Digital Gaps and Inequality
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to Improve Literacy Skills
- How EdTech can Deliver on the Promises of Personalised Learning
- Enhance Digital Learning Platform
- Delivering the Future of Online Learning
- 5 Myths about Digital Technology and Learning
- Gamifying Education
- & much more.
Throughout the conference, there are multiple opportunities for networking.
For more information and advice about digital transformation (DX) in the education sector, check out our handy guides on our blog.
