Promoting Digital Inclusion
We are committed to supporting disabled people and unpaid carers to become digitally included. Here are some of the ways that we do this:
- We are signed up to Scotland’s Digital Inclusion Charter.
- Our learning projects support disabled people and unpaid carers to learn one to one and in small groups
- We offer non formal learning opportunities so that people can start learning at their pace
- We train staff who support disabled people and carers
- Our online learning platform has short courses for self study.
- Complete an audit of your digital health using our digital health checker
- As an SQA Centre we also deliver some qualifications about digital skills, online safety and cyber security.
We also have some stand alone digital projects, contact us for more information.
Our Digital products
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Thinking Digitally – Micro Courses
Lead Scotland’s Thinking Digitally short courses are designed to help individuals and organisations ensure that they have an accessible online presence, and that any digital content can be accessed by everyone.
These short courses are stand alone or you can study all of them to give you more rounded knowledge of creating accessible digital content.
The courses are designed to increase your confidence and ability when dealing with barriers to access. Nothing covered in the courses requires you to be an IT expert!
The Thinking Digitally micro courses are also ideal for teams looking to develop an understanding of accessibility issues, and how we can all take small, easy steps to create inclusive digital content that is accessible to all. As such, it makes ideal professional learning for any team or organisation looking to improve their abilities when it comes to accessibility.
Learn how to format content for accessibility, write alt text for screen readers, create captions, and much more!
Thinking Digitally
Thinking Digitally – full Qualification, SCQF level 6, 12 credits
Lead Scotland’s paperless and remotely delivered Thinking Digitally course introduces you to an effective use of the web and web-based tools for finding and sharing information and knowledge. One hour a week guided learning online together with a few hours offline self-guided work for 10 weeks helps you to understand how you and your organisation can engage effectively with your customers and service users in a digital landscape.
Are you looking to enhance your team’s digital skills, develop your own skills or grow your organisation’s ability to create an inclusive online presence?
Lead Scotland’s Thinking Digitally course offers a guided, online, group learning environment with one to one support to help you meet your outcomes.
Because this course is fully flexible, it begins with creating a learning plan, unique to your organisation. We then use this as a basis for your learning, helping make you confident across a range of digital tools which are relevant to your organisation’s specific needs. Previous participants have created blogs, padlets, prezis, websites and micro websites as their digital artefacts, tailored for their audience.
Thinking Digitally is an ideal course for teams looking at adding value to CPD, as well as facilitating an inclusive and outward looking attitude to using technology to reach wide audiences.
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