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The University of Sydney

Information & Digital Literacy for University Success

This Specialization is aimed at preparing students for undergraduate study in an English-speaking university. The course equips you for full participation and engagement with your studies by building awareness and understanding of the core values and expectations of academic culture, and providing you with practical strategies to apply to your studies. In this course, you will learn how to develop your Information & Digital Literacy Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Access and search for information efficiently and effectively using a variety of digital tools. 2. Critically evaluate the reliability of sources for an academic context. 3. Filter, manage and organize information from a wide variety of sources for use in academic study. 4. Demonstrate awareness of ethical issues related to academic integrity surrounding the access and use of information. 5. Understand how to use digital tools for referencing and attribution in order to avoid plagiarism. 6. Understand how to disseminate and communicate information in a professional way, including managing digital identity and building networks for learning and research.

Status: Personal Integrity
Status: Critical Thinking
BeginnerCourse36 hours

Featured reviews

HH

5.0Reviewed Jun 24, 2022

This course helped me alot with my skills to evaluate and identify sources so as to know if they are reliable for academic context or not.

MA

5.0Reviewed May 23, 2021

An excellent course! I wish I had knew this before I started college. I am in grad school now and I am so thankful I came across it.

NH

5.0Reviewed Feb 5, 2025

This course to me is vital because nowaday the way we approach information have changed so this course help participants to study more skill in the method we evaluate the information we find.

AJ

5.0Reviewed Jan 6, 2021

Everyone enrolled or planning to enrol for their studies at a university must take this wonderful course. It is an amazing course highlighting all the most important academic needs of students.

SS

4.0Reviewed Mar 30, 2022

It's useful to every academic students 😀  and I learned most valuable things about academic studying lifestyle.

TT

5.0Reviewed Jan 21, 2022

this is a very useful course, i have one small advice that you should adjust the space of the questions and options in the quizzes more reasonable

KB

5.0Reviewed Apr 9, 2020

There is no greater digital literacy and information - the great instructor has made us a huge success, Thank you from heart.

JA

5.0Reviewed Jul 24, 2020

It's very good for the beginners for having the basic of Information and Digital Literacy for University Success.

CT

5.0Reviewed Jun 17, 2022

I thoroughly enjoyed every lesson in the Information & Digital Literacy for University Success course. I picked up essential skills required for university success.

MG

5.0Reviewed Oct 16, 2024

Not gonna lie, this course really provided what you need to survive university. I've gained a lot of insights, especially in the critically evaluating sources and how to cite properly.

PB

4.0Reviewed Apr 15, 2020

Hi Priyanka Banerjee here,this course was quite useful in assessing the works, keeping in mind the scholarly means . Thank you so much for the quick responses.

D

5.0Reviewed Nov 14, 2022

You have special thoughts and views on this issue, your work is very good. I have a few suggestions on dividing and evaluating those sources.

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