Learn: Digital Skills Courses
From spotting spam in your inbox to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, these free courses build skills and confidence. The results from the Skills and Personality Assessments on the previous page will suggest a learning pathway to follow below to get started.
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Choose a course
Armed with knowledge about personalized strengths and growth areas, follow the guidance from the assessment results to explore the 7 learning pathways. Each pathway has free courses from Microsoft, IBM SkillsBuild, Google, Canva and more. Get practical, hands-on learning (and certification, where available) to prepare for real-world challenges and opportunities. Browse the learning pathways:
- Information and Digital Literacy
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Digital Content Creation
- Online Safety
- Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
- AI
*Please note: For some of the courses below, you’ll need to sign up with the course provider first and get separate credentials
Information and Digital Literacy
ibm skillsbuild
Data Fundamentals
Do you love to discover meaning in facts and numbers? Learn the concepts and methods of data science and how its discoveries change the world. Then get hands-on practice cleaning, refining, and visualizing data, in a series of simulations, using IBM Watson Studio with the data refinery tool.
statistics canada
Data Literacy Training Products
Statistics Canada is committed to sharing our knowledge and expertise to help all Canadians develop their data literacy skills by developing a series of data literacy training resources. Data literacy focuses on the competencies or skills involved in working with data, including the ability to read, analyze, interpret, visualize data, as well as to drive good decision-making.
Luciana Padua | tedx nuremberg
Data Literacy and the Art of Asking Questions
Figures and statistics are indispensable key indicators for decision-making in politics, business, and private life. But do we always understand numbers and their meanings correctly? Luciana Padua argues that before society can dive into complex data-related topics, we must first learn the basic use and understanding of data.
Communication
ibm skillsbuild
Working in a Digital World: Professional Skills
This IBM SkillsBuild learning plan allows learners to get an understanding of key skills for professional success and core soft skills needed in the information technology workforce.
forbes
10 Tips For Effective Communication In The Workplace
Ineffective workplace communication costs U.S. businesses $1.2 trillion annually, according to a report by Grammarly. But getting communication right can be a challenge between people with varying backgrounds, vantage points, and cultures. So the experts at Forbes Advisor detail the top tips for effective communication in the workplace to help.
ibm skillsbuild
Communication Skills
Being a good listener can help you build stronger relationships and gain new ideas and inspiration. These learning activities will help you expand your understanding of the importance of effective communication in the workplace, and develop skills and strategies that will make it easier for you to listen, learn, and share your knowledge and insights with others.
Collaboration
ibm skillsbuild
Working in a Digital World: Professional Skills
This IBM SkillsBuild learning plan allows learners to get an understanding of key skills for professional success and core soft skills needed in the information technology workforce.
ibm skillsbuild
Collaboration
These learning activities will help you expand your understanding of the importance of effective communication in the workplace, and develop skills and strategies that will make it easier for you to listen, learn, and share your knowledge and insights with others.
harvard business review
Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration
When most organizations strive to increase collaboration, they approach it too narrowly: as a value to cultivate—not a skill to teach. Companies that excel at collaboration, in contrast, realize it involves instilling the right mindset. What’s more, these firms have established programs to help employees develop those attitudes.
Digital Content Creation
Google Workspace Learning Center
Get the most out of Google Workspace in your workplace with training guides, tips, customer examples, and other resources.
microsoft
Microsoft 365 Training
Learn how to get more work done, from anywhere on any device with Microsoft 365 and Windows 10. Discover how industry professionals leverage Microsoft 365 to communicate, collaborate, and improve productivity across the team and organization.
canva
Canva Design School
Learn how to design with Canva. Thousands of tutorials on how to design like a pro, explore typography, design trends, color and more!
Online Safety
abc skills hub
Protecting Your Information Online
This course is about how you can keep your information safe while using the internet. You’ll learn to recognize unsafe websites and online messages. You’ll also learn what kinds of personal information websites might collect from you.
get cyber safe
Get Cyber Safe
Get Cyber Safe is a national public awareness campaign created to inform Canadians about cyber security and the simple steps they can take to protect themselves online.
abc skills hub
Searching Safely Online
This ABC Skills Hub course has lessons and activities to help people who are new to using the internet understand how to search safely online and find reliable information. In this course, you’ll learn how to search safely online and where to find information from reliable sources.
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
ibm skillsbuild
Professional Skills
This IBM SkillsBuild learning plan allows learners to get an understanding of key skills for professional success and core soft skills needed in the information technology workforce.
ibm skillsbuild
Problem Solving
Your ability to solve problems is a skill that can be developed and enhanced. Problem solving is about thinking about how to approach problems, who to involve in the process to solve them, and how to measure the outcome so that you know you and your team are successful.
asana
How to build your critical thinking skills in 7 steps (with examples)
Critical thinking comes from asking the right questions to come to the best conclusion possible. Strong critical thinkers analyze information from a variety of viewpoints in order to identify the best course of action. In this article, we’ll help you build a foundation for critical thinking so you can absorb, analyze, and make informed decisions.
AI
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Generative AI learning path
his learning path guides you through a curated collection of content on generative AI products and technologies, from the fundamentals of Large Language Models to how to create and deploy generative AI solutions on Google Cloud. Take these courses if you want to understand how to develop AI-based solutions using tools by Google.
ibm skillsbuild
Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
With this IBM SkillsBuild course you’ll explore AI’s history, and see how it can change the world. Along the way, you’ll deep dive into ways that AI makes predictions, understands language and images, and learns using circuits inspired by the human brain. After a hands-on simulation, you’ll finish with tips on how to find your own career in AI. Take this course if you are looking to explore careers in AI.
code academy
Learn How to Use ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a large language model created by OpenAI. In this introduction to ChatGPT, you’ll learn how large language models are used to build generative AI tools and the different things you can create with generative AI. Then, you’ll see how you can use ChatGPT at work and in your personal life to save time and effort (and have more fun!). We’ll also go over the basics of prompt engineering — writing instructions for generative AI.
More ways to learn with Digital Pathways
DIGITAL, in partnership with LinkedIn Learning, has created a one stop shop for people who are looking to upskill or change careers. Powered by FutureFit AI, the Digital Pathways Platform gives people a personalized, step-by-step plan to help navigate digital career transitions using automatic skill assessment and career matching. Sign up and get unlimited access to courses on LinkedIn Learning for 6 months between April and September 2024.
New courses
Courses are added regularly, so check back often. Questions or suggestions?