EPPREP860Digital Literacies

Course handbook

Description

This course has been designed for students to undertake prior to commencing their enabling or undergraduate studies, who would benefit from focused digital literacy development, to support their tertiary study. Communication and access to information in higher education is increasingly through digital technologies, that require specific skillsets. Similarly, online, blended and hybrid learning necessitates a broader set of practical skills in content creation, to engage with online tutorial activities, assessments and exams. These skillsets will continue to be critical beyond the classroom, as students move into the professional world. Students will develop institutional, digital, information, and communication skills which are required for success in their enabling and undergraduate degree studies. Students will use and interact with University software, systems and processes. Digital literacies will be analysed, practised and applied in a forum that is university specific.

Availability2024 Course Timetables

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Engage in appropriate online communication via a variety of channels.

2. Evaluate their own digital identity.

3. Apply critical thinking techniques to digital texts.

4. Create a digital media product.

Content

To develop digital literacy skills for success in their degree studies students will undertake:

• activities to develop digital communication skills;
• activities and exercises that develop information literacy skills;
• analysis of a range of digital texts, including online journal articles, digital media and/or multi-media products;
• discussion of online safety, cyber-security, digital footprints, and online reputations;
• the production of digital media including; podcasts, videos and / or online presentation.

Requisite

This course is only available to students who are active in the programs:

[22223] NUPrep Bridging and Refresher

[22224] NUPrep Bridging and Refresher

Assessment items

Written Assignment: Writing Task (Online Communication)

Written Assignment: Reflection Task

Written Assignment: Research Task (Database Search)

Project: Create a Media Product

Contact hours

Summer 2 - 2024 - Online

Winter - 2024 - Online

Quarter 4 - 2024 - Online

Course outline

• EPPREP860 - Ls, 2024 (Online) (PDF, 256.7 KB)