In the connected era, students will be most successful after college if they have a digital presence that promotes their unique abilities and strengths. Online instructors are poised to play a powerful role in the development of our students’ digital footprint. Students aspire to be like their instructors who actively model safe and professional use of digital tools and resources. Effective online teachers understand that engaging students in the web is an important part of becoming digitally literate and, as such, learning is not tied to a textbook.
Fact checking and using credible sources are especially important in scientific disciplines, such as health and nutrition. Hence, I started each of my courses with an introduction to information literacy and how to differentiate credible from non-credible sources. A link of Virginia Shea's online Netiquette book was also posted in each course.
Taking the @ONE's seminars, including the Digital Citizenship course, expanded my creativity and technical skills to incorporate more interactive and appealing lecture segments to reach my goal in modeling digital citizenship and ethics.
There is always room for improvement, and I hope to learn additional 'tools & tricks' in future seminars to achieve my goal for modeling digital citizenship and ethics.
This video gives you a quick overview, how I have been implementing the @ONE 'Digital Citizenship' principles in my online courses.
In order to relate 'netiquette' to students, I like to use "The Core Rules of Netiquette" Piktochart, which summarizes the components from Netiquette by Virginia Shea's Netiquette book (http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html )
Fact checking and using credible sources are especially important in scientific disciplines, such as health and nutrition. Hence, I start each course with an introduction to information literacy and how to differentiate 'myths' from 'facts'.
After completing my @ONE Digital Citizenship course earlier this year, I incorporated the question#10 into my final Course Reflection Questionnaire Assignment:
Since our course was exclusively online, the concept of 'Digital Citizenship' (e.g., following 'Netiquette' guidelines, promoting honesty, integrity, fairness and respect for all, online fact-checking before misinformation is disseminated) is important. Please share your observation reg. 'Digital Citizenship' in our course, and tell me 'what you did to support Digital Citizenship' in our course?
In addition to using the Canvas Analytics, Quiz Statistics and overall grade standing (as evidenced in the Grade Book), I have incorporated
Anonymous module feedback surveys
Course Reflection questionnaires
Furthermore, I evaluate Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for all my courses each semester -- depending on the outcome, I make course adjustments to increase student success.