About this course: This course prepares learners to empower themselves through metaliteracy in a connected world. Metaliteracy promotes critical thinking and self-reflection to consume, create, and share information with others. Participants will learn how to critically navigate, evaluate and produce information in open, online, and social media settings. This course features videos, readings, discussions, and learning activities that promote metaliteracy competencies. Participants will become active and collaborative digital citizens who locate and evaluate information in 21st century social environments, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), while making contributions to these spaces as self-reflective and empowered metaliterate learners. Metaliteracy is an empowering idea because it encourages individuals to be active and self-reflective participants in today’s expanding information environments. This approach is relevant to anyone who wants to be an informed consumer of digital information and active contributor to social settings mediated by technology. It is invaluable to learners in a variety of fields and disciplines that involve evaluating and managing information. Metaliteracy is also relevant to anyone in the workplace who wants to improve the ability to search, evaluate, produce, and distribute information. This approach supports college students who want to expand their critical thinking capabilities through research, writing, and adaptation to emerging technologies. It is also relevant to anyone taking a MOOC or pursuing social learning opportunities because it empowers users to be active and engaged digital citizens.

Who is this class for: This class is relevant to lifelong learners seeking new ways to gain knowledge in social settings, college students interested in expanding research competencies, and professionals pursuing effective strategies for engaging with interactive social media in the workplace.

Created by: The State University of New York

Taught by: Dr. Thomas P. Mackey, Vice Provost for Academic Programs
SUNY Empire State College
Taught by: Professor Trudi Jacobson, Distinguished Librarian; Head, Information Literacy Department
University Libraries, University at Albany
Taught by: Kelsey O'Brien, Information Literacy Librarian
University Libraries, University at Albany
Taught by: Dr. Michele Forte, Assistant Professor, SUNY Empire State College
Community and Human Services
Taught by: Allyson Kaczmarek, MS

Level	Beginner
Language	English
How To Pass	Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.
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Syllabus

WEEK 1

Your Role as a Metaliterate Learner

This first week explains what metaliteracy is and what it means to be a metaliterate learner in today’s collaborative information environment. The course materials in this section describe the concept and why it is important to learners who want to make the m...

2 videos, 2 readings

Graded: Week 1

WEEK 2

Becoming a Digital Citizen: Creating and Sharing a Social Identity

This week explores the complex concept of social identity in the online environment. Content investigates the multi-faceted aspects of our online identities, and the important connected concept of personal privacy. Learners will not only research and analyze t...

1 video, 1 reading

Graded: Week 2

WEEK 3

Becoming a Digital Citizen: Understanding Intellectual Property

This week explores intellectual property. It will challenge you to look critically at what you understand about intellectual property, and the basics of copyright and open access. Since metaliteracy encourages the creation of new information and repurposing of...

3 videos, 2 readings, 2 practice quizzes

Graded: Week 3

WEEK 4

Becoming a Digital Citizen: Ethical Use of Information

This week explores information ethics. Content includes the following topics, all of which are connected to a broad understanding of information ethics, including information use, and ethically remixing and sharing content. The module challenges you to look cr...

5 videos, 1 reading

Graded: Week 4

WEEK 5

Understanding How Information is Packaged and Shared

Today’s dynamic social media environment features a wide range of formats that define how information is packaged and shared. Metaliteracy challenges us to think about how the presentation of information in multiple formats impacts our understanding of the co...

2 videos, 1 reading

Graded: Week 5

WEEK 6

Creating Information

This week we will transition from information consumers to information producers. Whether or not you consider yourself a publisher, you have likely created and shared information online. If you have ever written a blog post, communicated on a social network, o...

1 video, 1 reading

Graded: Week 6

WEEK 7

Participating as a Global Contributor

In this week, you’ll learn to see yourself as a participant in a global information community and you will consider the importance of how messages are sent and received by different audiences. You’ll also become aware of the challenges of practicing inclusive...

1 video, 2 readings

Graded: Week 7

WEEK 8

Create and Curate

In this module, you will focus on an aspect of information creation not previously considered in this course: information curation. Rather than simply collecting resources for your own use when you are interested in a topic, you have the ability to curate cont...

1 video, 2 readings

Graded: Week 8

WEEK 9

Metacognitive Reflection

What kind of learner are you? If you don’t get something right the first time, do you get down on yourself for failing, or do you embrace it as an opportunity for growth? When you post a status update on Facebook or other social media site, are you reflecting ...

2 videos, 2 readings

Graded: Week 9

WEEK 10

Empowered Learning: From Learner to Teacher

This last module asks you to reflect upon what you have learned in your journey to empower yourself as a metaliterate individual. You have been engaging with the information environment in both familiar and new ways over these past ten weeks. You have also bee...

2 videos, 1 reading

Graded: Week 10

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As said it empowers you to be a metaliterate learner! :)

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Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World

Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World

Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World