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Hibernia College launch a new short course in Digital Literacy as an OER

By Ann Byrne, Digital Librarian, Hibernia College. Hibernia College is delighted to release its short course in Digital Literacy as an open educational resource (OER). The course was developed by a small team within Hibernia College’s Digital Learning Department (DLD): Irene O’Dowd (DLD researcher), Ann Byrne (Digital Librarian), and Emberly Davey (library assistant), with support

Student View: Why Media Literacy Matters for Parents

Sarah McKenna is a first-year BA Joint Honours student at Dublin City University where she studied media literacy in the School of Communications. This explainer aims to outline the importance of media literacy in today’s society and specifically for parents.

Sky Up Academy Studio launched

By Christine Cullen, Head of Internal Communications and Bigger Picture at Sky Ireland At Sky we believe that a company of our scale has a responsibility to the community in which we operate, and it really is important to us both as a business and for our employees that we support the communities where our

Student View: Media Literacy and Desensitisation

Abbey Colgan talks about how media literacy can make us aware of the risks of desensitisation

Diversity and inclusion project LEMON goes live

By Sally Galiana For the last two years, partners in five European countries (Spain, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Austria) have worked together to create a new media literacy e-learning resource. The Learning Ethical Media Online (LEMON) course aims to increase media content creators’ awareness of inclusion diversity in media creation. Available in 3 languages: Spanish, German

MLI May Newsletter

Another jam-packed newsletter for May. Almost at the halfway mark for 2023 and LOTS still to come. If you haven’t already had a look at our Workplan please go to the Members News section of the website and think about how you can best play your part. Email Martina with any thoughts/suggestions/ideas. If you haven’t logged on in a while, you might need to reset your password.

Online Bullying: Bystander Behaviour Online

A report on the event, discussions and SID 2023 Activity is now available: https://www.webwise.ie/trending/safer-internet-day-2023-report/.

Erasmus+ Funding for Media Literacy Projects

Part of a series of articles sign-posting MLI members to possible sources of funding.