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About this course

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.

Featured reviews

4.0Reviewed Dec 18, 2018

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.

5.0Reviewed Jun 23, 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.

4.0Reviewed Mar 17, 2020

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.

5.0Reviewed May 22, 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.

5.0Reviewed Jan 5, 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.

4.0Reviewed Mar 29, 2022

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

5.0Reviewed Feb 4, 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.

5.0Reviewed Jul 20, 2020

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.

5.0Reviewed Apr 8, 2020

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

5.0Reviewed Jul 19, 2021

Amazing course, good quality materials, professional looks and aesthetics, perfect time-table and week-wise distribution of course. Great assignment to explore learnt skills.

5.0Reviewed Oct 15, 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.

5.0Reviewed Jul 23, 2020

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

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Dr. Qaisar Abbas Janjua (Digital Literacy)

5.0

Reviewed Apr 15, 2020

This course is necessary for students who are planning to enter in university studies

I fully recommend it.

Lavinia Van Bokhoven

5.0

Reviewed Apr 6, 2019

Commendable and best course I have ever come across to prepare for university!

Tran Thien Phu

5.0

Reviewed Jan 22, 2020

It's very good for you to learn how to start at university

Ahmad Jan

5.0

Reviewed 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.

Nguyễn Văn Đức

5.0

Reviewed Jun 5, 2020

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.

Lola Shadmanova Ashirmatovna

5.0

Reviewed Feb 14, 2019

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

Samman Batool Samman Batool

5.0

Reviewed Jul 20, 2020

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.

Yadi Supriadi

5.0

Reviewed Aug 1, 2017

It helped me to be well-prepared before I'm going to University in this Month.

Bernadette Lazaro Wainiqolo

4.0

Reviewed Mar 18, 2020

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.

Anvar Alimbaev

5.0

Reviewed Feb 14, 2019

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.

Sudip Kumar Mandal

5.0

Reviewed Jul 20, 2021

Amazing course, good quality materials, professional looks and aesthetics, perfect time-table and week-wise distribution of course. Great assignment to explore learnt skills.

Yueming Cao

5.0

Reviewed Feb 18, 2017

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

Suphab Klinruang

5.0

Reviewed May 3, 2020

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.

SA113

5.0

Reviewed Nov 4, 2019

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!

Azimjon Musamukhamedov