One of our hopes/aspirations for the programme is that it makes a difference to your day-to-day work. So, as you work through the programme, there will be activities which ask you to draw on your work as a learning and development professional - in other words, we’ll ask you to apply what you’re learning to projects drawn from your day-to-day work. You’ll also be expected to maintain a reflective journal of your learning via the blogging platform of your choice and to share that with fellow professionals and both seek feedback and provide feedback to others learning alongside you. So, we’d recommend you create a blog (if you don’t already have one) as before going any further.

Wherever possible activities will be work-based - either drawing from work you are doing in your job or, asking you to apply what you have learned to your day-to-day work. After all, the whole point of the programme is to make you a better learning and development practitioner and improve what you are able to deliver in terms of digital learning in the workplace.

As you know by now, the programme is delivered 100% digitally. However, there are some things we’ll take for granted; like your access to computer and mobile technology; broadband / 4G access etc. We’ll also assume you’re comfortable with carrying out general activities online. To see what we mean here, take a look at the basic digital capabilities at https://23digital.sssc.uk.com and quickly  assess yourself, asking how comfortable or confident you are with your ability to deal with the topics listed. You might find it helpful to work through some of the sections at 23 Digital where you feel it would help fill in any gaps you have, or just to give yourself a refresher. This should get you up to speed and help you get the most from the programme.

So, that’s enough from us at the moment. But, to get you started, we’d like you to complete the following activity.