Selecting Digital Resources

Competent Digital Educators identify, assess and select digital resources to support and enhance teaching and learning. Thet consider the specific learning objective, context, pedagogical approach, and learner group, when selecting digital resources and planning their use.

Typical activities

They formulate appropriate search strategies to identify digital resources for teaching and learning.

They select suitable digital resources for teaching and learning, considering the specific learning context and learning objective.

They critically evaluate the credibility and reliability of digital sources and resources.

They consider possible restrictions to the use or re-use of digital resources (e.g. copyright, file type, technical requirements, legal provisions, accessibility).

They assess the usefulness of digital resources in addressing the learning objective, the competence levels of the concrete learner group as well as the pedagogic approach chosen.

When mastering this competence by doing the work in the lab, you should be able to say:

I use simple internet search strategies to identify digital content relevant for teaching and learning.

I am aware of common educational platforms which provide educational resources.

I adapt my search strategies based on the results I obtain.

I filter results to find suitable resources, using appropriate criteria.

I evaluate the quality of digital resources based on basic criteria, such as e.g. place of publication, authorship, other users’ feedback.

I select resources that my learners may find appealing, e.g. videos.

I adapt my search strategies to identify resources which I can modify and adapt, e.g. searching and filtering by license, filename extension, date, user feedback etc.

I locate apps and/or games for my learners to use.

I evaluate the reliability of digital resources and their suitability for my learner group and specific learning objective.

I give feedback and recommendations on the resources I use.

In the lab we will also:

Experiment with a variety of other sources, e.g. collaborative platforms, official repositories, etc.

We will learn to evaluate the reliability and suitability of content based on a combination of criteria, verifying also its accuracy and neutrality.

When using digital resources in our online lessons we will learn to contextualise them for the students, e.g. by pointing out their source and potential bias.