Digital Skills: Embracing Digital Technology

Program Overview

This free 4-week online course provides essential digital literacy skills, including internet navigation, content creation, online safety, and personal learning network development.

Program Outline

Outline:

This course will cover the following topics:

• The fundamental skills needed to use the internet: This includes email, social media, research using search engines and databases, and online collaboration.
• Advanced digital content creation: This includes choosing the right tools and developing a creative idea.
• Staying safe online: This includes identifying and discriminating between trustworthy and untrustworthy communications and content online, protecting your privacy, and treating others with respect.
• Developing a Personal Learning Network: This includes learning how to use online communities to develop your skills and receive support.
• Job-specific skills courses
• An entrepreneurship program
• Refugees
• Displaced people
• Supporting communities
• People wanting to enter university with a focus in STEM, healthcare, social sciences, arts, or humanities

Additional details:

• Minimum CEFR Level A2 recommended
• Course offered through FutureLearn
• Free of charge