About Digital Skills Specialization

Digital technology is affecting almost every aspect of our lives. In this context, the future of modern society depends on people capable of leading business transformation and innovation in a digitally-enabled economy. However, this requires a new and rare combination of business, technology and strategic skills and knowledge — the so-called e-skills.

In skill development, we differentiate between short-term and long-term development. To measure the short-term progress of skill development, skills need to be re-assessed after some time and be compared to the initial assessment. In terms of long-term development, it can be found that the concept of lifelong learning as well as certain tools can facilitate individuals in their development progress. Thus, this course provides an introduction into the concept of lifelong learning and provides a comprehensive toolbox for digital skill development. While most training is concerned with the own individual development of skills, another perspective is training-the-trainers to enable participants to identify others’ skill gaps and to help them develop their digital skills. Therefore, this is the second part of this course and provides general principles as well as a guideline for training others. Together with the toolbox, you will be enabled to take the role as digital skill trainers.