Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world: Online Course from OpenLearn

This free course, Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world, will develop your confidence and skills for life online, whether study, work or everyday life. It explores a range of digital skills...

Syllabus

- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
- Acknowledgements
- Week1Week 1: Your digital life
- Introduction
- 1 The importance of being digital
- 2 How digital are you?
- 3 Digital skills for everyday life
- 3.1 Everyday transactions
- 3.2 Using social media
- 3.3 Problem-solving
- 4 Reflection
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week2Week 2: Getting up and running
- Introduction
- 1 Information in a digital age
- 2 Digital skills and digital literacy
- 3 A framework for digital skills
- 3.1 Understand and engage
- 3.2 Find
- 3.3 Evaluate
- 3.4 Manage and communicate
- 3.5 Collaborate and share
- 4 Digital skills and university study
- 5 Reflection
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week3Week 3: Making your mark online
- Introduction
- 1 Digital me: starting your digital journey
- 1.1 Checking out your digital footprint
- 1.2 First steps to a good digital footprint
- 2 Openness versus privacy
- 2.1 On the road
- 3 Digital citizens
- 4 Reflection
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week4Week 4: Staying safe and legal
- Introduction
- 1 E-safety
- 1.1 Passwords
- 2 How to protect yourself
- 2.1 Protecting yourself from viruses and malware
- 2.2 Avoiding online scams and hoaxes
- 2.3 Protecting personal data
- 2.4 Agreeing to terms and conditions
- 3 Digital well-being
- 3.1 Connecting and communicating safely
- 4 Keeping it legal
- 4.1 What is copyright law?
- 4.2 Copyright responsibilities
- 4.3 Creative Commons (CC) licences
- 4.4 How do Creative Commons (CC) licences work?
- 5 Reflection
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week5Week 5: Critical consumption
- Introduction
- 1 Your information landscape
- 1.1 Exploring your information landscape
- 2 Searching
- 2.1 Refining your search
- 2.2 Dealing with information overload
- 3 Asking the right questions
- 3.1 Useful starting points
- 3.2 Developing your ‘trustometer’
- 4 Reflection
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week6Week 6: The right tool for the job
- Introduction
- 1 Everyday life; everyday tasks
- 1.1 ‘There’s an app for that’
- 1.2 What can apps and tools do for you?
- 1.3 What are apps doing with your personal data?
- 2 Which apps might be for me?
- 2.1 Finding apps
- 2.2 Communicating, creating, collaborating, managing
- 3 Reflection
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week7Week 7: Being digital: making it work for you
- Introduction
- 1 Manuela's progression through the course
- 1.1 Finding the right information
- 2 John’s progression through the course
- 2.1 Using social media
- 3 Michael’s progression through the course
- 3.1 Investigating study
- 4 Reflection
- 5 This week's quiz
- 6 Summary
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Week8Week 8: Continuing your digital journey
- Introduction
- 1 Taking stock
- 2 Skills development
- 3 Making your mark online
- 4 Copyright and Creative Commons (CC)
- 5 Staying safe online
- 6 Critical consumption
- 7 The right tool for you
- 8 Reflection
- 9 This week’s quiz
- 10 Summary
- Tell us what you think
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements

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