Digital Literacy (Bibliopatente)

The Department's Digital Skills Lab runs an online digital literacy course, collateral to the institutional teaching of the various degree courses, consisting of three teaching units:

1. INFOPATENTE
   searching for information online
2. BIBLIOPATENTE
   the basics of document search
3. BIBLIOPATENTE2
   the document research for the thesis in humanities

The first two courses, suggested especially for first-year students, are part of a self-study pathway consisting of two different MOOCs (Infopatente and Bibliopatente) open to all internet users and delivered on the national inter-university platform for open education EDUOPEN. The path was created by the Department with the technical collaboration of the SELMA Center thanks to the ministerial funds of the 2016-18 Three-Year Programming

Thethird course, suggested especially for those about to start thesis, will continue to be delivered on the University's Elly Libraries DigiLab and will be reserved for students enrolled in the degree courses incardinated in the D.U.S.I.C. Department. In particular, for students enrolled in the second-cycle degree course in History, criticism and languages of arts and performing arts the course is required for the achievement of CFUs combined with thesis while for students enrolled in the first-cycle degree course in Modern foreign languages and civilisations the course is combined with the redemption of merit points for positive rounding of the degree grade.

Aim of the digital literacy activities through the various proposed teaching units is to facilitate students' conscious use of the Internet to minimize the time it takes to retrieve information and documents needed for exams and dissertations, promoting both a conscious use of Web tools for searching for information and cloud-based organization of data and a better use of online tools intended for document research.

For all further detailed information on digital literacy courses, please refer to the dedicated website or the Department's reference staff.