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This is an interactive web game that teaches students how easily misinformation can be spread online.
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DigitalEd – Digital Tools
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DESCRIPTION:
This is a directory of digital resources, tools, apps, and software that can be used to enhance the digital teaching and learning experience in third-level education. A variety of tools are featured, including resources focused on website creation, video conferencing, and quiz making, among others.
Learning In A Digital Age
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This resource consists of several micro courses focused on learning in a digital age, digital literacies for online learning, digital citizenship, open education, copyright, open licensing, media literacies, and digital skills. These courses can help grow your digital competencies and improve your capacity as a digital learner.
Student Success Toolbox
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The Student Success Toolbox is a series of short courses aimed at flexible learners (such as mature, part-time, and online/distance learning students) to help them assess their readiness for and lay the foundations for successfully undertaking and completing a college programme. The digital tools provided help students assess various factors to consider when considering returning to education, such as time management and computer skills level.
Durham University – Designing Digitally
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This is a series of resources created by Durham University aimed at academic staff wanting to explore ways of designing courses that make the best use of digital tools and resources to design and enhance learning.
Creative Commons – OER (Open Educational Resources)
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This page is a repository of search engines that allow you to find Open Education Resources (OER) and Creative Commons (CC) licensed materials quickly and easily.
DCU – Assistive Technology
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This page from the DCU Information Systems Services (ISS) informs students about the assistive technologies available to them, including (among many others) text-to-speech software, dictation software, recording devices, and screen readers, through the Disability and Learning Support Service.
DCU – Student Web Publishing Guidance
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This page from the DCU Information Systems Services (ISS) informs students on web publishing and provides students useful information on the resources they have available to create their own website, including links to resources for website publishing, populating sites with content, and on the HTML programming language.
Digital Stepping Stones
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Digital Stepping Stones is a self-assessment tool developed by An Cosán which helps make it easy for people to find out what digital skills and competencies they have and where they might need or want to upskill. Completing this self-assessment takes approximately 15 minutes.
All Aboard Course – Screencasting
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This is a 20-minute interactive lesson from All Aboard aimed at teachers and lecturers interested in incorporating screencasting (a form of multimedia presentation) into their planning, and how it can be used as a beneficial teaching and learning resource.