This course focuses on using digital technologies to develop learners’ employability skills in authentic, visible ways. You’ll explore how ePortfolios, blogs, digital portfolios and online resumes can be used to document learning, showcase skills and support reflective practice over time. You’ll examine strategies for digital expression, including content creation across text, audio and video, and how to guide learners to use social media and blogging constructively.
You’ll then look at digital problem solving in different workplace contexts, using case studies (such as construction trades) to design practical portfolio based activities that highlight both technical and interpersonal skills. Finally, you’ll investigate collaborative tools and platforms that support shared work, version control, security and safe sharing, helping learners experience the kinds of digital collaboration they’ll encounter in employment.
Employability skills, digital capability and evidence of learning are central to quality outcomes and industry relevance. This course supports standards around learner support, assessment, industry engagement and use of technology by helping trainers design ePortfolio based tasks, use digital tools for problem solving and collaboration, and prepare learners to present themselves professionally online. It also strengthens your ability to gather richer evidence of competence over time.
Who Should Take This Course
This course is ideal for: - VET trainers and assessors who want to embed ePortfolios, digital projects and collaborative tools into units so employability skills are visible, not just assumed.
- Secondary teachers (especially VET in schools, technologies, careers, English and applied learning) who support students to prepare resumes, portfolios and online profiles.
- Program leaders and coordinators designing whole program approaches to digital portfolios and employability skills.
- Educators in any sector who want to use blogs, wikis, websites and collaborative platforms to develop learners’ digital problem solving and teamwork.
By the end of this
lesson, you will be able to:
- Explain the purpose of ePortfolios, blogs and digital portfolios to your learners.
- Plan tasks where students curate and reflect on evidence of their skills and achievements.
- Connect portfolio activities to resumes, job search tools and labour market expectations.
- Facilitate safe, structured online collaboration that builds teamwork and communication skills.
- Use simple criteria or rubrics to review and give feedback on learners’ digital portfolios.
Note: Access is granted for 3 months from the date of enrolment.
