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Postgraduate Course: Information literacies for online learning (EDUA11152)

Course Outline
SchoolMoray House School of Education and Sport CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course covers the challenges of the ever-growing electronic information world and aims to help you develop your own understanding of information literacy. Knowing how to find, evaluate, use and 'remix' information in an ethical way are essential aspects of learning and working in the digital age. This course will enable you to develop your own information literacies, and help you to foster them in your own learners, colleagues and clients.

Students from outwith the Digital Education programme wishing to enrol for this course or take it on a 'class only' basis must liaise directly with the course secretary before enrolling.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Students will be required to have regular access to a networked computer, and will be responsible for providing their own computing equipment and consumables. Broadband is recommended.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Critically engage with the concept of 'information society' and its implications for learning and social engagement
  2. Examine and develop both your own information-handling practices and those of your students, clients or co-workers
  3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of issues related to publication and use of information
  4. Support students, learners and clients in the context of the 'information explosion'
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information The course will be delivered flexibly and online.
Keywordse-learning,information skills
Contacts
Course organiserMs Marshall Dozier
Tel: (0131 6)50 3688
Email: Marshall.Dozier@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Shahidah Raza
Tel: (0131 6)51 1196
Email: v1sraza2@exseed.ed.ac.uk
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