Title: Digital Fundamentals

This is the first module in a suite of 5 openly licenced Digital Fluency modules developed at OUT in collaboration with OER Africa to address the needs of Academic staff in the 21st Century.

Digital literacies are those capabilities that are necessary for an individual living, learning and working in a digital society (JISC, 2014). The use of digital technologies has become integral to every aspect of daily routines, including teaching and learning processes and academic administration. Accordingly, academic staff need to be digitally literate to work competently in this rapidly growing area. This module aims to provide skills, knowledge, and understanding of how to work in your digital environment in an academic context, and to enhance your skills to efficiently, critically, creatively, and safely work with digital technologies in your daily academic routine.

Role: Participant — Students generally have fewer privileges within a course.

Section 1
  General news and announcements forum
  Module Topics, Teaching and Learning Media, and Schedule
  Module 1 Assessment Plan, Certification Criteria, and Evaluation
  Acknowledgements
  Module 1 Licencing
  Where to find Support
  Module 1 Resources
  Digial Fluency: Module 1 Certificate - Digital Fundamentals
  Study Material - Digital Fundamentals
  Glossary of Terms - Digital Fundamentals
  Mod 1 - Personal Activity Progress Tracker
  Online Learning Orientation: As some of you may no...
  The Core Rule of Netiquette - Virginia Shea
  Introductions
  Moodle FAQs
Topic 1: Basic Computer Concepts and Operations
  Activity 1.1 Match the Word to the Description
  Activity 1.2. Basic Computer Action
  Activity 1.3 Technology Trends in Context
  Topic reflection
  Topic 1: Resources
  Study Material - Topic 1: Basic Computer concepts
Topic 2: Internet Fundamentals and Applications
  Activity 2.1: Online Searching Course: Power Searching with Google
  Activity 2.2. Practice Efficient Searching
  Topic reflection
  Topic 2: Resources
  Study Material - Topic 2: Digital editing
  Activity 2.3 Using Google Forms
Topic 3: Internet fundamentals
  Activity 3.1 :Power Searching with Google.
  Activity 3.2 :Search Engine application.
  Activity 3.3: Usage of Google forms
  Topic reflection
  Topic 3: Resources
  Study Material - Topic 3: Internet fundamentals
Topic 4: Virtual Learning Environments
  Activity 4.1: Virtual Learning Environmental systems in learning
  Activity 4.2 Edu tools features
  Activity 4.3 How to upload a video on the learning Management system
  Topic reflection
  Topic 4: Resources
  Study Material - Topic 4: Virtual Learning Environments
Topic 5: Multimedia Fundamentals
  Activity 5.1 Multimedia Fundamentals
  Activity 5.2 Multimedia application
  Topic reflection
  Topic 5: Resources
  Study Material - Topic 5: Multimedia Fundamentals
Module 1 Evaluation
  Survey Questions