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- Module 1
- Topic 1: What is Student Digital Civic Engagement?
- Topic 2: How is Digital Civic Engagement Impacting Universities (and Beyond)?
- Topic 3: What Competences do Student Civic Engagers Develop?
- Topic 4: What does Student Digital Civic Engagement Look Like in Practice?
- Evaluation test for module 1
- Resources and further studies (Module 1)
- Module 2
- Topic 1: Problems that need solving – spotlight on global issues
- Topic 2: Improving your community through civic engagement
- Topic 3: Taking a service-learning approach to an DCE project
- Topic 4: DCE is building your competency levels. Here are the opportunities
- Evaluation test for module 2
- Resources and further studies (Module 2)
- Module 3
- Topic 1: What Do Great Digital Civic Engagement Projects Include?
- Topic 2: Getting Involved In Your First Digital Civic Engagement Project/ Initiative
- Topic 3: Using Technology To Enhance Your Civic Engagement Work
- Topic 4: Designing/ Delivering Digital Civic Engagement Solutions
- Evaluation test for module 3
- Resources and further studies (Module 3)
- Module 4
- Module 5
- Topic 1: Estimating Project Costs And Financial Needs
- Topic 2: Spotlight On Lean Start Up and Sustainable Business Model Canvas
- Topic 3: Crowdfunding Your Civic Engagement Projects /Causes
- Topic 4: Leveraging the power of corporate social responsibility
- Evaluation test for module 5
- Resources and further studies (Module 5)
- Module 6
- Topic 1: Why Building Credibility, Trust and Relationships are Key
- Topic 2: Cultivating and Growing a Student Civic Engagement Community
- Topic 3: Spotlight on Mission Marketing
- Topic 4: Technology Tools to Help You Share and Spread Your Civic Engagement Work
- Evaluation test for module 6
- Resources and further studies (Module 6)
Topic 2: How is Digital Civic Engagement Impacting Universities (and Beyond)?
The learning objective of this topic is to understand the relationship between civic engagement and digital technology and to identify the ways in which digital technology can be used in a civic engagement activity.
Student engagement and digitalization
There are two ways in which the use of digital technologies is applied in civic engagement projects:
1. Purposeful Digitalization: This form of digitalization occurs when the creators of the project use digital technology from the initial development of the project.
2. Emergency Digitalization: This form of digitalization occurs as a reaction to the necessary changes created by the management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Example of purposeful digitalization:
The UNED Virtual Student Service-Learning Programme in Spain was designed as an e-Service-Learning course based on virtual student exchange. It involved Spanish students from the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) and African students from the ENS (Ecole Normale Supérieure) of Porto Novo in Benin taking teacher-training courses for Spanish-language teachers. The students met online for classes to strengthen their oral proficiency in Spanish, since students form Benin did not have the financial resources to travel to Spanish-speaking countries.
Example of emergency digitalization:
The University of Klagenfurt Student Volunteer Projects for Caritas is about students learning how project management works in practice. The students got involved in different projects, for example one project team collected hygiene items for the local homeless day-care centre and another project recycled discarded books. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the projects had to be moved to a digital environment. One project team originally planned a lesson with young school children on bee mortality in the region. Instead of going to the school, they created a film for the children about this topic.
Quick test
