Digital Learning Department
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Hibernia College Digital Learning Department2024-03-28T09:12:58ZDigital literacy for all: reflections on creating a short course in digital literacy
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13012/187
Digital literacy for all: reflections on creating a short course in digital literacy
Byrne, Ann; Davey, Emberly; O'Dowd, Irene
Presented at the A&SL LAI Conference, 21st of March 2024, Dublin, Ireland. In today’s internet-dominated interconnected world, where anyone with a phone can publish something and share it worldwide, critically assessing the integrity of information has never been more important or more challenging, and to do this successfully requires digital literacy skills. Inspired by global initiatives such as the United Nations SDGs and the European Commission’s DigComp framework, we created an open digital educational resource to help foster digital literacy within our institution and beyond. This project ties in with an ongoing academic integrity project within our institution; it also coincides with the increasing availability of generative artificial intelligence systems that can potentially spread misinformation at scale. In this context, we feel the project is a very timely one. In this paper, we reflect on the process of developing the course, share what we have learned along the way, and indicate future directions for the project.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZHECA Research Conference 2023: Sharing an Open Research Landscape
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13012/179
HECA Research Conference 2023: Sharing an Open Research Landscape
O'Dowd, Irene; Byrne, Ann; Butler Neff, Linda; O'Sullivan, Patricia; Browne, Andrew; Zorzi, Debora; O'Connor, Noel; McKenna, Robert; Haugh, Trevor; Finkbeiner, Kristin; Ni Bhraonain, Dimphne; King, Ann
This paper provides a succinct overview of HECA's second annual research conference, held at DBS on November 14th 2023.
2024-01-01T00:00:00ZTurning our critical faculties up to eleven: reflections on creating a short course in digital literacy
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13012/174
Turning our critical faculties up to eleven: reflections on creating a short course in digital literacy
O'Dowd, Irene; Byrne, Ann; Davey, Emberly
“I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything.” (David St Hubbins) Approaching life like David St Hubbins from This Is Spinal Tap (1984) was all very well back in the 1980s, but it is a less good idea in today’s internet-dominated interconnected world, where anyone with a phone can publish anything and beam it around the world. Critically assessing the integrity of information has never been more important or more challenging, and to do this successfully requires digital literacy skills. Inspired by global initiatives such as the United Nations SDGs and the European Commission’s DigComp framework, we created an open digital educational resource to help foster digital literacy within our institution and beyond. This project ties in with an ongoing academic integrity project within our institution; it also coincides with the increasing availability of generative artificial intelligence systems that can potentially spread misinformation at scale. In this context, we feel the project is a very timely one. In this paper, we reflect on the process of developing the course, share what we have learned along the way, and indicate future directions for the project.
This presentation was delivered at the second annual HECA research conference held in DBS Dublin on November 14th, 2023. The presentation outlined the development of a digital literacy OER by research and library staff in the digital learning department at Hibernia College.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZDigital literacy OER
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13012/173
Digital literacy OER
O'Dowd, Irene; Byrne, Ann; Davey, Emberly
Digital literacy refers to the effective use of digital media platforms when finding, evaluating and communicating information. This involves a variety of technical and cognitive skills and competencies. The aim of this course is to introduce three key facets of digital literacy and increase your skills and competencies in these areas. The course has three lessons: Information literacy, Digital wellness and identity, and Communication and collaboration. This course is shared as an OER which can be reused, adapted or built upon for educational purposes. It consists of one ZIP folder containing SCORM files for the individual lessons, and quizzes in Word and Moodle file formats. This OER is licenced under CC BY-NC 4.0. If you have any queries about this OER please contact iasc@hiberniacollege.net
2024-01-01T00:00:00Z