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Content is broken into smaller learning experiences that focus attention on one useful idea at a time.
DIG Project
DIG Open Educational Resource
Small steps.
Skills that last.
The DIG OER turns the project's learning content into an accessible, flexible online experience designed to help young people strengthen patience, focus, self-regulation and the ability to work towards meaningful long-term goals.
Bite-size learning
Practical activities
Self-paced
5 modules + wrap-up
Designed for modern learning
Learning without information overload.
DIG reorganises the project's educational content into manageable online learning experiences. Instead of presenting everything at once, learners explore one idea at a time, reflect on it and connect it with real situations.
Practical
Lessons connect concepts with decisions, pressures and situations young people can recognise from everyday life.
Flexible
The digital format allows learners to engage with the content at their own time and pace.
Accessible
The learning experience is designed for use across devices and supports wider access to DIG educational resources.
Your learning journey
Five modules. Five everyday challenges.
Explore the skills and influences that shape how we respond to immediate rewards, pressure, emotions, distraction and long-term goals.
01
Module
Time Management
Explore how priorities, planning and everyday choices influence the way you use your time — and how to create more space for goals that matter.
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02
Module
Problem-Solving Under Pressure
Practise staying clear-headed when situations become difficult, urgent or frustrating, and explore more constructive ways to respond.
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03
Module
Social Influence on Behaviour
Discover how friends, groups, trends and digital environments can influence behaviour — and strengthen the ability to make choices intentionally.
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04
Module
Emotional Awareness and Regulation
Learn to notice emotional responses, understand what they may be telling you and create space between a strong feeling and the decision that follows.
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05
Module
Focus
Explore how your attention changes during the day, identify digital distractions and build a practical focus toolkit that helps you stay engaged with tasks that matter.
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Course Wrap-Up
Finish Your DIG Journey
Look back at what you have learned, choose the strategies you want to carry forward, create one realistic next step and finish with a collection of words of wisdom.
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How to use the OER
Explore. Reflect. Try. Continue.
DIG is designed as active learning. The goal is not simply to read information, but to connect ideas with your own decisions, experiences and everyday behaviour.
1
Explore
Begin with one short topic or practical idea instead of trying to absorb a large amount of information at once.
2
Reflect
Think about how the topic appears in your own choices, experiences, habits and challenges.
3
Try
Put an idea, strategy or different response into practice in a situation that matters to you.
4
Continue
Move forward in small steps and gradually strengthen the skills that support long-term choices and goals.
Who can use it?
Learn independently or use DIG with young people.
The online resource primarily supports the project's two target groups: young people and the youth workers, trainers and facilitators working with them.
Ages 15–19
For young people
Use the DIG OER as a flexible self-learning experience to explore the skills behind better choices and longer-term goals.
- Learn in manageable steps.
- Connect topics with everyday situations.
- Explore your own habits and choices.
- Build patience and perseverance gradually.
- Use the resource at your own pace.
Youth workers & trainers
For facilitators
Use the online resource alongside DIG activities or as additional learning material when working with teenagers.
- Introduce DIG topics in youth work.
- Support reflection and discussion.
- Use digital learning alongside group activities.
- Encourage independent learning between sessions.
- Connect the OER with the wider DIG methodology.
Why nano-learning?
Less overload.
More focused learning.
DIG was designed around the idea that digital learning for young people should be easy to enter, easy to understand and practical enough to use.
The educational content is therefore broken into smaller units rather than presented as long blocks of information. This supports flexible and autonomous learning while keeping attention on the essential message.
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Focus on one idea at a time.
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Learn when and where it works for you.
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Move through the content at your own pace.
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Turn short learning moments into real-life practice.
DIG learning environment
Ready to begin?
Enter the DIG online learning environment and explore five practical learning modules at your own pace. Create a free learner account, save your progress and return whenever you are ready.
5 learning modules + wrap-up
From time management and pressure to emotions,
social influence, focus and personal next steps.
Bite-size format
Short learning activities designed for manageable
digital learning.
Flexible access
Learn independently, save your progress and
continue when it suits you.
Practical focus
Build strategies that connect directly with
everyday choices and challenges.
One choice at a time
Good things come to those who wait.
DIG is about strengthening the skills that help us choose what matters more — even when the easier reward is available right now.