E-society, Law and Security Issues in E-learning
Course code
HKI5048.HK
old course code
HKI5048
Course title in Estonian
E-ühiskond, õiguse ja turvalisuse küsimused e-õppes
Course title in English
E-society, Law and Security Issues in E-learning
ECTS credits
3.0
Assessment form
assessment
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To develop skills for the use of web-based information and intellectual property in accordance with good practice. To provide knowledge about the dangers connected to the use of ICT and skills for avoiding these in the learning process.
To provide knowledge about different topics connected to new media ethics and law in order to work in different web environments and with various online tools; to increase awareness of existing dangers and risks in web environments (censorship, decrease in privacy, cybercrimes, judicial and ethical conflicts).
To provide knowledge about different topics connected to new media ethics and law in order to work in different web environments and with various online tools; to increase awareness of existing dangers and risks in web environments (censorship, decrease in privacy, cybercrimes, judicial and ethical conflicts).
Brief description of the course
E-society module: E-governance, e-services, digital signature, encrypting, ID-card reader, e-citizenship. Internet – a virtual global village, digital divide.
Independent work: to map the e-services used in one’s life, to give an overview of the existing e-services, to devise new essential e-services (group work, brainstorming with the help of different online environments).
Law module: copyright law and e-learning, open content licenses, Creative Commons. Software licenses (commercial software, shareware, freeware, public domain software, free software).
Independent work: e-presentation (video, animation, interactive website, etc) on one topic of the law module.
E-learning ja -teacher module: How to deal with these topics in the classroom setting. E-courses, e-books, e-learning environments, social networks. Ethical questions in the changing profession of the teacher. Peculiarities and models of e-pedagogy and didactics; different e-learners and their wrongdoings in the e-learning world (identity theft, manipulation, password problems, open and closed environments).
Independent work: analysis of the opportunities, methods and terms of use of different online environments from the perspective of e-learning.
E-safety module: digital footprint, privacy, data protection, secure passwords, viruses, cybercrimes, cyberbullying, data mining, protection of one’s virtual identity, basics of secure and ethical behaviour in the Internet. Censorship and privacy. Materials of Targalt internetis.
Independent work: to map the e-services used in one’s life, to give an overview of the existing e-services, to devise new essential e-services (group work, brainstorming with the help of different online environments).
Law module: copyright law and e-learning, open content licenses, Creative Commons. Software licenses (commercial software, shareware, freeware, public domain software, free software).
Independent work: e-presentation (video, animation, interactive website, etc) on one topic of the law module.
E-learning ja -teacher module: How to deal with these topics in the classroom setting. E-courses, e-books, e-learning environments, social networks. Ethical questions in the changing profession of the teacher. Peculiarities and models of e-pedagogy and didactics; different e-learners and their wrongdoings in the e-learning world (identity theft, manipulation, password problems, open and closed environments).
Independent work: analysis of the opportunities, methods and terms of use of different online environments from the perspective of e-learning.
E-safety module: digital footprint, privacy, data protection, secure passwords, viruses, cybercrimes, cyberbullying, data mining, protection of one’s virtual identity, basics of secure and ethical behaviour in the Internet. Censorship and privacy. Materials of Targalt internetis.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- can use ID-card solutions and the citizen portal eesti.ee;
- has an overview of software licensing policies and of different ways of using software as part of e-learning;
- understands copyright law, can cite and share his/her creations properly;
- knows the ethical and judicial peculiarities of e-learning and can select the most appropriate Web2.0 tools (both open and closed) for his/her classroom;
- understands the importance of e-safety information work and can behave more safely both in his/her private and work-related life while being online:
- creates an e-book, video/animation, website;
- can apply different social communication tools and environments of e-learning.
- can use ID-card solutions and the citizen portal eesti.ee;
- has an overview of software licensing policies and of different ways of using software as part of e-learning;
- understands copyright law, can cite and share his/her creations properly;
- knows the ethical and judicial peculiarities of e-learning and can select the most appropriate Web2.0 tools (both open and closed) for his/her classroom;
- understands the importance of e-safety information work and can behave more safely both in his/her private and work-related life while being online:
- creates an e-book, video/animation, website;
- can apply different social communication tools and environments of e-learning.
Teacher
B. Lorenz
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