The Digital Fluency course comprising 5 modules was developed collaboratively by OER Africa and Open University of Tanzania (OUT) within the Participatory Action Research Grant (2014-2017) funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Our motivation for developing this course is to enhance the capacity of academic staff in sub-Saharan Africa to increase confidence and competence in selecting and using appropriate digital technologies in an informed manner within their work environment.
The aim of the course is to progress beyond the conventional notion of digital or computer literacy – we would like to support academics to become ‘fluent’ in the digital workplace. The move from literacy to fluency encompasses effective and ethical online communication, good quality resource creation and curation, knowledge co-construction, and an understanding of using these abilities to ‘open up’ education – with all these elements becoming increasingly standard and effortless over time.
The overall objective is to develop an ability to comfortably and ethically use digital technologies incorporating a variety of media types, both onand off-line, to support your teaching and learning, research, and academic administrative duties. We believe that these modules will support you in your journey towards this goal.
The five text modules and associated Moodle back-up files are available as OERs.
Except where otherwise noted, content in these modules is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Every effort has been made to adhere to the licences of OER incorporated in the module. Should there be any queries around individual licensing of module components, please contact the Director of Quality Assurance at OUT: dqac
out [dot] ac [dot] tz (dqac[at]out[dot]ac[dot]tz)
Module 1 - Digital Fundamentals (PDF)
Module 2 - Working with OER (PDF)
Module 3 - Learning Design and Development for Online/Blended Provision (PDF)