Learning in a digital age/LIDA100 OERu course specification

=Part A: Course specification=

Metadata

 * OERu course name: Learning in a digital age
 * Level: 1st year Bachelor's degree
 * Notional learning hours: 160
 * Micro-courses (Four micro courses of 40 hours each)
 * Digital skills for online learning (LIDA101)
 * Digital citizenship (LIDA102)
 * Open education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world (LIDA103)
 * Critical media literacies and associated digital skills (LIDA104)
 * OERu course codes: LIDA101, LIDA102, LIDA103, LIDA104
 * OERu assessing institutions: Otago Polytechnic
 * Micro-credential options: Yes
 * OERu mode of study: Self-directed study or cohort-based independent study with peer-learning support.

Course aim
To enable students to develop and apply digital and learning literacies critical for learning success in tertiary education in the 21st century

Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:


 * 1) Apply digital tools effectively to demonstrate learning literacies including advanced search strategies to identify and select relevant open access resources to research, produce, analyse and present information for tertiary education purposes.
 * 2) Develop a positive digital online identity commensurate with good practice for privacy, security and interpersonal communications.
 * 3) Apply knowledge of copyright, open licensing and license remix compatibility utilising open education practices to support tertiary learning in a global digital context.
 * 4) Apply critical media literacy skills and use multimodal communication to express outputs of learning effectively in a digital online environment.

Indicative content
The LidA course will implement a discovery pedagogy where learners are guided to search, identify, evaluate, select and share appropriate resources in achieving the learning outcomes in pursuit of their own learning interests. Indicative topic areas:


 * Digital and academic skills for online learning
 * Digital citizenship
 * Open education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world
 * Critical media literacies and associated digital skills.

Pre-requisites

 * 1) Proof of your English language capabilities: A copy of your official English language test results. Otago Polytechnic accept IELTS, TOEFL and New Zealand Certificate in English language (Levels 1-5) results.

=Part B: Detailed objectives=

Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:
 * Apply digital skills for establishing and maintaining a personal learning environment on the open web
 * Outline the breadth of digital and learning literacies for the 21st century
 * Apply effective search strategies for both search engines and repositories to find relevant open access resources
 * Apply skills for judging the legitimacy of open resources and applying frameworks for selecting appropriate resources to support learning
 * Apply learning and academic literacies including note-taking, annotated bibliographies, paraphrasing and reflective learning skills
 * Apply online skills for planning and writing an essay including how to prepare a bibliography and cite sources online for academic purposes and corresponding tools for maintaining a bibliography

Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:
 * Describe the dimensions of digital citizenship and e-Literacy appropriate for work and learning in the 21st century
 * Outline the rights and responsibilities of a digital citizen
 * Compare and contrast on-line communities with off-line communities
 * Evaluate a range of digital media, technologies and communities appropriate for supporting learning
 * Explain the essential features of privacy and security in an online world
 * Explain the potential pitfalls associated with social media, including the risks of using “free” services, catfishing, identity theft, internet trolling and cyberbullying
 * Apply skills and constructive solutions to online interpersonal dilemmas that exemplify ethical behaviour
 * Develop a positive digital identity and digital footprint for learning

Micro 3 - Open education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:

Learning objectives

 * Define open education and related concepts of Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Access (OA) and Open Licensing in relation to academic study
 * Outline the ethical and sustainability challenges associated with universal and affordable access to higher education around the world
 * Apply knowledge of copyright and the associated public domain within the context of global access to digital information and strategies to avoid breach of copyright in a digital world
 * Apply knowledge of open licensing for creative works and open source software including remix compatibility among different types of open licenses
 * Apply semantic markup skills for different technologies
 * Explain academic integrity in relation to copyright, plagiarism and fabrication

Micro 4 - Critical media literacies and associated digital skills
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:

Learning objectives

 * Compare and contrast definitions of media literacy and new media literacy in the context of the history of mass media and newer forms of social media and citizen journalism
 * Apply critical media literacy skills to access, analyse, evaluate and create media in different forms information being conveyed
 * Explain how the medium and publisher influences the message regardless of the form
 * Assess the authority and reliability of a range of mass media
 * Explain how social media influences attitudes and behaviour in contemporary society
 * Apply skills in using digital media for visual and multi-modal presentation to support learning

Course links (if available)

 * Planning page
 * Course materials
 * LiDA 101 (Digital literacies for online learning) - Wordpress site for LiDA101
 * LiDA 102 (Digital citizenship) - Wordpress site for LiDA102
 * LiDA 103 (Open education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world) - - Wordpress site for LiDA103
 * LiDA 104 (Critical media literacies and associated digital skills) - Wordpress site for LiDA104