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Course: Essential Digital Skills – Online Searching

Essential Digital Skills – Online Searching

Being able to search online effectively is important in today’s digital world – it helps you find reliable information quickly and easily.

This course will help you do that by offering tips for getting the most out of your browser searches and showing you how to spot reliable sources and what questions to ask when reviewing information.

Learning Objectives

  • Summarise tips and techniques to improve your browser searches
  • Explain how to identify reliable sources, and what questions to ask to decide if information is credible
  • Understand what ‘confirmation bias’ means, and how to prevent it from affecting your research
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Course Duration:

7

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Accreditations

CPD

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AA accessible

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