Foundation Skills for Your Future program: Digital Literacy Skills Framework, April 2020

Digital literacy refers to the skills and competencies needed to use digital technologies to achieve personal goals, enhance employability skills and support education and training. Digital literacy sits alongside the core skills of learning, reading, writing, oral communication and numeracy. The inclusion of digital skills alongside the foundation skills of language, literacy and numeracy recognises that digital literacy has become increasingly critical for individuals' participation in the workforce. The Digital Literacy Skills Framework has been developed to support the Foundation...  [+] Show more

Digital literacy refers to the skills and competencies needed to use digital technologies to achieve personal goals, enhance employability skills and support education and training. Digital literacy sits alongside the core skills of learning, reading, writing, oral communication and numeracy. The inclusion of digital skills alongside the foundation skills of language, literacy and numeracy recognises that digital literacy has become increasingly critical for individuals' participation in the workforce. The Digital Literacy Skills Framework has been developed to support the Foundation Skills for your Future Commonwealth Government Program 2019. This program offers subsidised training that: supports individuals to identify language, literacy, numeracy and digital (LLND) skill needs; and enables eligible participants to access either accredited or non-accredited training, either directly through contracted registered training organisations (RTOs) or through projects linking employers and RTOs to deliver contextualised LLND training to employees in a traditional vocational education and training (VET) setting or a workplace setting to support employed or recently unemployed individuals.

This Digital Literacy Skills Framework sits alongside the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF), 2012 [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 108.1528] and the ACSF Pre Level 1 2017 [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 141.486].

Edited excerpts from publication.