Section outline

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    About the course

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    Online ethics is about caring and acting to make online environments more positive, productive and meaningful places. This also involves Empathy, which is a paramount ability in avoiding violent online radicalization and promoting positive online behaviors and interactions, especially in a digital world where controversial issues are often discussed without considering that on the other side of the screen there are people like us. 

    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. Positive online behaviour

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

    • Use social media in a positive way
    • Create online interactions that promote positive behaviour
    • Recognize and deal with negative behaviour online

    • 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 “positive online behaviour”

      Objectives:

      • Identify online interactions that promote positive behaviour
      • Structure the content and ideas
      • Give feedback

      Task 1: Start a discussion to share your knowledge about online positive behaviour with your classmates.

      Task 2: Reply twice to answer to at least two of your colleagues' posts.


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    • Quiz 1. Positive online behaviour
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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. Empathy as a skill for life

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

    • Understand the importance of empathy
    • Explain what it means to have different perspectives on empathy
    • Illustrate emphatic behaviour on online communication

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    Module 3. Ethical thinking

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

    • Understand ethical behaviour
    • Explain how the use of social media can affect your future
    • Correct somebody in a professional way

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    Module 4. Ethical decisions

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

    • practice integrity when faced with ethical dilemmas
    • explain your personal responsibility to others on social media

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    Module 5. Practice empathy

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

    • understand and feel other people’s experiences, feelings and points of view
    • create online interactions that promote positive online behaviours
    • evaluate pears online interactions from an ethical and empathic perspective

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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 Ethics and Empathy 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