KCL London - Digital Skills: Embracing Digital Technology

Offered byFutureLearn

Digital Skills: Embracing Digital Technology
at
FutureLearn
Overview

Improve your digital skills for study, life and work, and learn how to navigate the web effectively and safely

Duration	4 weeks
Total fee	₹4,450
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Beginner
Official Website	Go to Website
Credential	Certificate

Digital Skills: Embracing Digital Technology

Table of content

Overview
Highlights
Course Details
Curriculum

Digital Skills: Embracing Digital Technology
at
FutureLearn
Highlights

Earn a certificate from King's College London

Digital Skills: Embracing Digital Technology
at
FutureLearn
Course details

Who should do this course?

This course has been created for refugees, displaced people and the communities supporting them in the MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) region who wish to take advantage of digital channels and devices to improve their lives, their job prospects and their opportunities to study

What are the course deliverables?

Demonstrate how to register and log in to websites, navigate the web, create social media profiles for well known platforms

Investigate and search for resources to support your job-seeking, studies and daily life

Collaborate and work together safely online and use online communities to develop your skills and receive support, as well as understand the importance of a personal learning network

Produce advanced digital content and post it to appropriate platforms

Identify and discriminate between trustworthy and untrustworthy communications and content online

Reflect systematically on your own learning progress

Develop your own personal plan for learning beyond the course and using your new skills effectively

More about this course

On this course, you'll learn about the digital technologies you can use to make your life, work and study easier
From email and messaging to social media, you'll discover digital tools for communicating and searching, and explore the creative possibilities offered by digital technology
You'll learn why and how to stay safe online, how to find trustworthy content, and the importance of how others perceive you online
You'll also learn how to use the internet to search and apply for jobs, and explore how online communities can help you in a variety of situations
Paid certification course

Digital Skills: Embracing Digital Technology
at
FutureLearn
Curriculum

Email, social media and research through the effective use of search engines and databases.

Online collaboration with others - for work, to create digital content, and to communicate with friends and family.

Creating advanced digital content by choosing the relevant tools and developing a creative idea.

Developing the judgement and knowledge to stay safe online and protect privacy, while treating others with respect.

Understanding how to use online communities and develop a Personal Learning Network to improve skills and receive support.

How to become a self-directed learner and reflect on one’s learning; gaining the confidence needed to plan how digital skills can be integrated into future study, work and life.