Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Applied Digital Literacy

Communicate your ideas through digital media. Learn strategies and tools for locating quality information and multimedia to effectively and ethically communicate your ideas through digital technologies.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Developing online research skills
  • Advanced knowledge of multi-channel media
  • Creating digital artifacts such as presentations, infographics, posters, advertisements, podcasts, and films
  • Identifying the need for information
  • Understanding the tools required to fulfill the need for information
  • Applying advanced techniques and tools in information retrieval
  • Organizing information using open information management tools like Endnote and Zotero
  • Finding and ethically utilizing multi-channel media
  • Creating engaging visual digital artifacts
  • Conducting effective research and presenting it to appropriate audiences using designed media

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Digital Content Manager
  • Graphic designer
  • Media producer
  • Information Analyst
  • Marketing researcher
  • Content creator
  • Digital Project Manager
  • Social Media Expert
  • Educational content developer
  • Podcast producer
  • Infographic creator
  • Advertising Campaign Manager
  • Professional presentation developer
  • Documentary filmmaker

Internship – 3-part course series

This specialization is designed for anyone interested in developing online research skills along with advanced knowledge of multi-channel media to create digital artifacts such as:

  • Presentations
  • Infographics
  • Posters
  • Advertisements
  • Podcasts
  • Movies

Over the course of the three courses, learners will cover how to:

  • Identify the need for information
  • Understand which tools to use to fulfill the need
  • Apply advanced techniques and tools in searching across a variety of information platforms
  • Organize information using open information management tools like Endnote and Zotero
  • Find and ethically utilize multi-channel media
  • Create engaging visual digital artifacts

All of these skills will prepare learners to conduct effective research and present it to appropriate audiences using designed media.

In addition, learners will receive:

  • Certificate of completion of courses from Coursera for each course
  • Digital Micro-Skills Certificate from the University at Buffalo

Use your verified digital badge to publish your achievement online, and access career insights related to your new skills.

Applied Learning Project

Learners will prepare a project outline on a topic of their choice and use this outline to build a multi-modal digital artifact such as:

  • Presentation
  • poster
  • Infographics
  • Podcast
  • film

This final project can be used by the learner to showcase their new skills and abilities digitally.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Basic information education

Course 1
13 hours
4.7 (96 ratings)

Course Details

Learn how to get started tackling a big project or presentation. Join today and equip yourself with the basic information education skills to navigate the worlds of knowledge and achieve what you seek.

This course will cover:

  • Creating a project/application presentation
  • Understanding the different types of information sources
  • Searching various information sources
  • Knowledge of faulty information or bias
  • Using correct citations
  • Avoiding copying
  • Review information to extract relevant details

We will use a combination of videos and reading with questions each week to progress learning.

At the end of the course you will be able to:

  • Initiate a project/presentation topic
  • Narrow down the project/presentation topic
  • Identify the gaps in your information
  • Find valid information sources online
  • Create appropriate search strategies
  • Evaluate information for authority, accuracy, balance, and timeliness
  • Use information in a project/presentation ethically

In addition to receiving a certificate from Coursera, you will also receive a digital microcredit badge from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Skills you will acquire

  • Critical thinking
  • assessment
  • Information seeking behavior

Advanced Information Education

Course 2
18 hours

What will you learn?

  • Formulate a need for information
  • Identify quality information sources
  • Use diverse information sources effectively and ethically

Skills you will acquire

  • Critical thinking
  • communication
  • Multiliteracy
  • Information seeking behavior
  • Information education

Digital Information Education

Course 3
19 hours
4.7 (22 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Aesthetics in design
  • Ethical use of media (images, audio, video)
  • Creating multimedia projects

Skills you will acquire

  • Multimedia
  • communication
  • Information education
  • Graphic design
  • Design thinking