COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course provides guidance needed in the ever changing digital world. As our lives are lived more and more online we all need to translate our social skills into the virtual world. Digital Fluency allows students to connect, collaborate, and share by using technology appropriately. In person meetings are on the decline which makes it necessary to engage people digitally and the course provide the practical knowledge to achieve this aim. The course equips students with the practical ICT skills which are required at the higher levels of interaction and learning. Lessons include using the various input devices, common navigation through command, menu and graphical driven applications, introduction to the various classifications of computer applications, and web browsing skills. Students are introduced to the fundamentals of word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, multimedia, and presentation applications, and disk and file management.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, students will:
- Navigate Laweh Learning
Management system effectively
- Describe the different
parts of a computer organization;
- Describe computers and
networks;
- Use common MS Office
applications(word, Excel, outlook, PowerPoint, access)
- Use common text editors in at
least two operating systems
COURSE CONTENT
- Navigating Laweh Learning
Management System
- Introduction to basic computing
- Operating systems
- Application software
- Computer networks
- Telecommunication
- The role of Information
Technology in Today’s Business.
COMPULSORY READING MATERIALS
- Shelly, C. (2010). Discovering computers: Introductory edition,
Course Technology.
- Laudon,
K. C., &Laudon, J. P. (2010). Management information systems
OPTIONAL READING MATERIALS
- Kumar, M. (2007). Business information systems. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House PVT
Ltd.
- Stair, R. M. &Baldauf, K.
(2009). Succeeding with technology
(3rd ed.). Thomson -Course Technology.