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Digital literacies for employability- fostering forms of capital online

Costa, Cristina and Gilliland, Gemma (2017) Digital literacies for employability- fostering forms of capital online. Revista da UIIPS, 5 (2). pp. 186-197. ISSN 2182-9608

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Abstract

The web has revolutionised the world of knowledge and created new literacies practices to operate in a mediated world. In doing so, it has reinvented the workplace, the skills, attitudes and values individual attribute to contemporary forms of communication as a form of learning, living and working in a digital society. This article provides a reflection of digital literacies as forms of capitals that can be acquired, enhanced or transformed online. The article also discusses how this conceptualisation of digital literacies as capitals were applied to the design of an open online course (MOOC) focused on digital literacies for employability. Finally, the article provides recommendations regarding the development and deployment of digital literacies as a key area of learning.

Item type: Article
ID code: 62001
Keywords: digital literacies, social capital, cultural capital, Pierre Bourdieu , MOOCs, Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education , Education
Subjects: Education > Special aspects of education > Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Centre for Lifelong Learning
Strategic Research Themes > Society and Policy
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited: 11 Oct 2017 11:29
Last modified: 07 Dec 2018 03:32
URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62001
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