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    About the Course

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    This course addresses two elements of digital citizenship:  the physical (health) and psychological wellbeing (wellness) of one’s self while living and interacting in an ever-increasing digital technological world.


    This course consists of 5 modules. We invite you to go through the course materials at your own pace and take the assessments at your convenience. After completing all the steps, you can download your course completion certificate.

    We wish you happy learning!

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    Module 1. Introduction to digital health and wellbeing

    By the completion of the module, you should be able to:

    • identify the means to check your own digital habits
    • define the basic concepts related to digital health and wellbeing
    • give examples of good and dangerous digital habits
    • relate digital habits to mental or physical health problems
    • recognize your own digital habits and critically think your online behaviors
    • compare and evaluate different digital habits and conclude on the optimal ones
    • relate digital health and wellbeing to the concept of digital citizenship


    • Course Content. Module 1 Book
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    • PDF Module 1 Page
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    • PPT Module 1 Page
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    • Forum 1. You are invited to describe/ write down what you already know about the topic “Digital health and wellbeing”.

      Objectives:

      • identify media use around you
      • understand the factors which influence health and wellbeing
      • give feedback


      Task 1: Share your media habits, lifestyles and preferences to your classmates

      Task 2: Share the advice you would give to yourself on the use of digital media

      Task 3: Reply twice to your colleagues


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    • Quiz 1. Introduction to digital health and wellbeing
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      Receive a passing grade

      • Gain your first Badge "Initiator"
      If your score for the quiz is above 50% you will be awarded with your first badge.

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    Module 2. Ergonomics

    By the completion of the module, the trainees should be able to:

    • understand how to prevent and eliminate pain, injuries or discomfort when using their computer
    • realize the aspects which facilitate the creation of an optimal environment for working ergonomically
    • explain why maintaining an ergonomically safe environment is important for physical health
    • demonstrate the procedures to keep the workstation environment safe and ergonomically correct

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    Module 3. Legal, ethical and societal aspects of using media and information

    By the completion of the module, you will be able to:

    • Access information effectively and efficiently
    • Understand the key concept that media have social and political implications
    • Understand the idea that media products may have both explicit and implicit messages
    • Identify implicit messages in a media text
    • Put into practice the understanding of the intellectual property

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    Module 4. Media Addictions

    By the completion of the module, the trainees should be able to:

    • define the different types of media addictions
    • recognize the symptoms of any type of media addiction
    • discuss the causes of these addictions in relation to youth
    • compare extensive use and addiction of the digital media
    • diagnose media addictions on themselves and others
    • propose individualized measures to minimize such addictions

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    Module 5. The Healthy Use of Digital Tools and Online Devices

    By the completion of this module, trainees should be able:

    • to recognize how different aspects of the use of the media can cause mental and emotional problems
    • to realize the importance of online privacy and digital footprints
    • to explain how fake news can cause distress and anxiety
    • to summarize the factors in the use of media that endanger health and wellbeing 

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    Course completion certificate

    You have reached the end of the course.

    Congratulations for going through all the online course modules!

    The link "Download your certificate for the Health and Wellbeing course", will be available upon completing all the tasks listed below.

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    Acknowledgement, Disclaimer and Copyright notice

    Acknowledgement. This learning material has received funding from the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ Grant Agreement 2019-3-RO01-KA205-078053, “Strategic partnership to develop open educational resources for teaching digital citizenship - DIGCIT”.

    Disclaimer. The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

    Copyright notice. CC BY. This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. © 2020 - 2022 DIGCIT Consortium