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.
RM
I love this course, very on point and straightforward! You rock, professors! I hope to visit University of Sydney one day.
BW
I find this module not easy as this is my first to do intense referencing and digital literacy was my weakness. Thank you for the accumulated knowledge you have passed to me.
MA
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.
PB
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.
T
This coursera is amazing!It helps me to gain a lot of knowledge. I feel lucky to be studying on coursera. Thanks for creating this course
D
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.
SB
This course was really very amazing. Through this course I learned a lot. I became familiar with the things which I did not know before. Thank you coursera for offering such amazing course.
SS
It's useful to every academic students 😀  and I learned most valuable things about academic studying lifestyle.
N
It's great and very detail for the fact that it teach me a new way to critically thinking at looking and find the knowledge I need for any kind of subjects.
JA
It's very good for the beginners for having the basic of Information and Digital Literacy for University Success.
NH
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.
MM
This course taught me skills I had either forgotten about or needed to learn. I am thankful for taking it and recommend it to anyone who is entering university.
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This course is necessary for students who are planning to enter in university studies
I fully recommend it.
Commendable and best course I have ever come across to prepare for university!
It's very good for you to learn how to start at university
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.
This course providing many knowledge and skills necessary for me.
I improve a lot about thinking and choose some method useful with my major.
Thank you who make this course.
This course is very useful and helpful for working and studying in university. I have learned to critically evaluate the credible sources, to what exactly pay attenyion. Thank you very much for facilitators and to the gro
This course was really very amazing. Through this course I learned a lot. I became familiar with the things which I did not know before. Thank you coursera for offering such amazing course.
It helped me to be well-prepared before I'm going to University in this Month.
I find this module not easy as this is my first to do intense referencing and digital literacy was my weakness. Thank you for the accumulated knowledge you have passed to me.
I think at present time this course is very actual for students both for researchers in globe. I found it very useful, got valuable skills. For this I highly recommend this course for all levels of academic society.
Amazing course, good quality materials, professional looks and aesthetics, perfect time-table and week-wise distribution of course. Great assignment to explore learnt skills.
This course equip me with the basic information about university and how to research articles which might be very helpful for my future academic study,it contains many useful knowledge and I think that continuing study is needed
Comment : about testing, it have some error when submit.
Thanks for a good course : Content, instructors, and slide.
Thanks so much and please take care yourself and team.
It was very easy and clear in every part and specially the quizes between lectures made me to pay more attention and concentrate.
Thank you all!
thanks a lot
A step in the right direction.
excellent
thanks
Great
Excellent help for new students, to develop criteria and strategies to organize and manage information. As well as to communicate within the academy