The goal of this lesson to raise students’ awareness and understanding of what deepfakes are, how they can cause harm, and how they could be regulated. The lesson also encourages students to question their own manipulation of images and video.

The goal of the Designing for All: A Toolkit for Maximum Digital impact is to provide resources for instructors at Vancouver Island University to create digitally accessible courses for their students. It focuses on the suite of tools supported by the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL). A giant thank you to BCcampus and their Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition. We were able to rely heavily on the content provided in that publication in the creation of our own version. Thank you for your hard work.

Differentiating open access and open educational resource can be a challenge in some contexts. Excellent resources such as "How Open Is It?: A Guide for Evaluating the Openness of Journals" (CC BY) https://sparcopen.org/our-work/howopenisit created by SPARC, PLOS, and OASPA greatly aid us in understanding the relative openness of journals. However, visual resources to conceptually differentiate open educational resources (OER) from resources disseminated using an open access approach do not currently exist. Until now.

This one page introductory guide differentiates OER and OA materials on the basis of purpose (teaching vs. research), method of access (analog and digital), and in terms of the relative freedoms offered by different levels of Creative Commons licenses, the most common open license. Many other open licenses, including open software licenses also exist.

This Book Will Be Helpful to:

Managers-
This book is aimed primarily at those who are responsible for implementing accessibility at an organizational level. These people tend to be managers, but may also be accessibility specialists, whose role it is to oversee the implementation of accessibility strategies and awareness throughout an organization.

Web Developers-
Web developers may also wish to read this book to expand their understanding of the organizational aspects of implementing accessibility, extending their role as an IT accessibility specialist, often being the person who leads the implementation of accessibility culture in an organization.

Everyone Else-
While managers and web developers are the primary audience for this book, anyone who has an interest in the aspects of implementing accessibility culture in an organization will find this book informative.

This guide provides resources on the topic of Digital Citizenship, as a supplement to the OERTX Digital Information Literacy Hub.

A course about digital citizenship and its importance in using the internet. This quick and easy-to-follow module includes the four key aspects of digital citizenship and videos that contain further information on those key aspects. This resource can be utilized as a learning tool for both teachers and middle school-aged/high school-aged learners who are directly interacting with or new to how the internet works. This resource can also be utilized as a source to learn and practice digital citizenship together in the classroom.

This guide provides resources on the topic of Digital Humanities, as a supplement to the OERTX Digital Information Literacy Hub.

Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities.

The Digital Information Literacy Hub is a curated collection of openly licensed resources that cover a wide range of topics related to digital information literacy. These topics contribute to an understanding of how to find, create, and ethically use information in the 21st century’s global information network.This document provides a quick start guide to the hub. Each collection is described to help guide users to the most appropriate content for their needs.(Banner image shared by digits.co.uk under a CC-BY-2.0 license).

The Digital Information Literacy Hub is a curated collection of openly licensed resources that cover a wide range of topics related to digital information literacy. These topics contribute to an understanding of how to find, create, and ethically use information in the 21st century’s global information network.This document contains the answers to frequently asked questions about the hub. This resource, along with the Navigation Guide and the About the Collections Guide, is intended to help the Hub’s users more effectively navigate and use the curated collections. (Banner image shared by digits.co.uk under a CC-BY-2.0 license).

Are you tired of feeling left behind in a world that seems to be moving faster than you can keep up with? Well, fear not! Join technology strategist and educator, Shauna Begley, in this engaging talk where she shares the secrets to becoming the master of your digital domain. Say goodbye to feeling overwhelmed and hello to unlocking the keys to digital literacy to ensure your success in our ever-evolving world. Shauna Begley is an educator, strategist and technology leader with over twenty years of experience leading digital change. Shauna is inspired to challenge the status quo while remaining mindful of the need for the purposeful alignment of technology, people, and processes. Throughout her career, Shauna has devoted herself to advocating for technology as a source enablement that drives strategic advantage and transformative business outcomes. From the boardroom to the classroom, Shauna engages with individuals and teams to support their digital transformations by ensuring they see the possibilities.

This guide provides resources on the topic of Digital Media Literacy, as a supplement to the OERTX Digital Information Literacy Hub.

Access a library of curated curriculum, lectures, and exercises, including a weekly update of fresh materials.

This module aims to equip you with a broad understanding of digital security and ethics and outlines some of the steps you can take to protect yourself and your work.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
Recognise basic terminology relating to digital security
Identify the main types of malware (malicious software), the main malware dissemination methods, and associated protection measures
Explain the security challenges associated with wireless networks and operating online
Demonstrate an understanding of firewalls,password security and other online protection measures
Assess the risks you or your organisation face and implement a risk management plan
Recognise the importance of behaving ethically online
Identify the ethical concerns associated with your work/project

This guide provides resources on the topic of Digital Visual Literacy, as a supplement to the OERTX Digital Information Literacy Hub.

An important hallmark of science is the transparency and reproducibility of scientific results. Over the last few years, internet-based technologies have emerged that allow for a representation of the scientific process that goes far beyond traditional methods and analysis descriptions. Using these often freely available tools requires a suite of skills that is not necessarily part of a curriculum in the life sciences. However, funders, journals, and policy makers increasingly require researchers to ensure complete reproducibility of their methods and analyses. To close this gap, we designed an introductory course that guides students towards a reproducible science workflow. Here, we outline the course content and possible extensions, report encountered challenges, and discuss how to integrate such a course in existing curricula.

This is a hands-on course where you will learn and demonstrate your skills in using digital technologies for collaborative OER development culminating in the development of an OER learning sequence.

This fluent and comprehensive field guide responds to increased interest, across the humanities, in the ways in which digital technologies can disrupt and open up new research and pedagogical avenues. It is designed to help scholars and students engage with their subjects using an audio-visual grammar, and to allow readers to efficiently gain the technical and theoretical skills necessary to create and disseminate their own trans-media projects.

This module introduces learners to critical discourse analysis (CDA) of education technologies (EdTech) that facilitate learning activities, such as video-based platforms and Learning Management Systems (LMS). The module guides learners to attend to the ways that EdTech providers (re)imagine classrooms as multimodal, monitored, and data-intensive spaces.

Digital literacy is a ‘life skill’ in which individuals develop skills and abilities, using digital tools appropriately to locate, evaluate, analyze, synthesize and construct new knowledge, communicate and interact with others in a creative and transformative way.

According to the bibliography, DL is a multidimensional literacy that involves a technical/ operational dimension which refers to mechanical and practical skills; a cognitive dimension related to Information literacy skills and content creation skills; and a social-emotional dimension which focuses on an individual’s development to communicate with others and enable social action

A six module course that goes over evaluating online information, working with different digital formats, ethical communication and sharing of information, and understanding online risks and threats.