Digital Development
e-course for higher education students
The e-course ‘Digital Development’ aims to equip students with skills to fully participate in digital education, make connections with local communities and sensitize them towards digital inclusion and digital empowerment of underprivileged and underrepresented community members. It is aimed at empowering students to address sensitive contemporary societal issues and at developing following digital skills: critical use of digital content, digital participation, self- actualizing, creative production of digital content, problem solving, digital learning and development.
The e-course is organized around 4 main digital pillars:
- Digital Competence: confident and appropriate use of digital technologies to engage in society
- Digital Fluency: appropriate use of technologies and application of digital skills to enhance one’s own learning, work-readiness or everyday life
- Digital Intelligence: a set of social, emotional and cognitive abilities that enable individuals to face the challenges and adapt to the demands of digital life
- Digital Engagement: appropriate use of digital tools to find, listen to and mobilize a community around an issue