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Selecting Digital Resources

Competent digital educators identify, assess and select digital resources to support and enhance teaching and learning. They consider the specific learning objective, context, pedagogical approach, and learner group, when selecting digital resources and planning its use....

These are the activities people do when they are competent in this area:

  • They formulate appropriate search strategies to identify digital resources for teaching and learning.
  • They select suitable digital resources for teaching and learning, considering the specific learning context and learning objective.
  • They critically evaluate the credibility and reliability of digital sources and resources.
  • They consider possible restrictions to the use or re-use of digital resources (e.g. copyright, file type, technical requirements, legal provisions, accessibility).
  • They assess the usefulness of digital resources in addressing the learning objective, the competence levels of the concrete learner group as well as the pedagogic approach chosen.

    When mastering this competence, you should be able to say:

    "I use simple internet search strategies to identify digital content relevant for teaching and learning. I am aware of common educational platforms which provide educational resources. I adapt my search strategies based on the results I obtain. I filter results to find suitable resources, using appropriate criteria. I evaluate the quality of digital resources based on basic criteria, such as e.g. place of publication, authorship, other users’ feedback. I select resources that my learners may find appealing, e.g. videos. I adapt my search strategies to identify resources which I can modify and adapt, e.g. searching and filtering by license, filename extension, date, user feedback etc. I locate apps and/or games for my learners to use. I evaluate the reliability of digital resources and their suitability for my learner group and specific learning objective. I give feedback and recommendations on the resources I use. ...."

    During the course we will also:

    Use a variety of other sources, e.g. collaborative platforms, official repositories, etc. We will evaluate the reliability and suitability of content based on a combination of criteria, verifying also its accuracy and neutrality. We will contextualise the resources we use in class for the students, e.g. by pointing out their source and potential bias. .....

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    How will we deal with this competence in the course

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    By Johan Venter 2023. E-mail me at johan@myfutureway.co.za

    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

    First published, in English, in 2017, as "European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators: DigCompEdu" by the European Commissions Joint Research Centre http://europa.eu/!gt63ch , EUR 28775 EN, ISBN 978-92-79-73494-6, doi:10.2760/159770, JRC107466.

    This re-work is the responsibility of Johan Venter (2023). E-mail him at johan@myfutureway.co.za. The European Commission is not responsible for this re-work and cannot be held liable for any consequence stemming from its use.