Digital Skills Lab

The Digital Skills Lab (DigiLab) was created in line with the ministerial plan guidelines of the new National Strategy for Digital Competencies to offer a core of support and advice for training activities and projects in soft skills, particularly digital, information and document skills, complementary to the institutional courses provided by the various degree courses of the Department.
Digital and information literacy, library and reading literacy, communication literacy, copyright education are just some of the best-known transversal skills (soft skills) that every student today is called upon to have in order to measure up to the challenges of learning, particularly those of learning in a digital environment, and to measure up tomorrow to the challenges of a world of work that is increasingly hyper-connected and conditioned by digital technologies.

In detail, the workshop:

• offers advice to the Department's students to integrate into their curricula courses and activities dedicated to acquiring or enhancing the digital skills necessary to achieve their goals of study and research, in particular to facilitate study and learning in the digital environment
• collaborate to draw homogeneous lines of development in experimenting with the integration of digital skills within the institutional programs of the Department's degree courses, in synergy with course catalogue managers and in line with the objectives identified in the National Digital Skills Strategy plan
• makes and manages the preparation of information and document literacy courses delivered via e-learning through institutional LMSs (Elly, EduOpen) that can be used by students in a propaedeutic or complementary way to training/deepening activities in disciplinary document research techniques delivered by area libraries or by professors in charge of seminars supporting document research and/or academic writing.
• takes care of the administration of the management side of the e-learning platform Elly Libraries
• collaborates with the Third Mission goals of the Athenaeum by implementing activities to promote digital and information skills aimed at the territory and in general at the public outside the Athenaeum (schools, citizenship) to be delivered on platforms suitable for open education (EduOpen)
• offers initial basic advice, of a guiding nature, and possibly preliminary to legal inquiries, for the integration of sources properly usable in distance education contexts with respect to compliance with copyright and fair use (copyright literacy) with particular reference to bibliographic-type materials potentially available online in open access, public domain or also covered by licenses
• collaborates with other Departmental bodies and staff identified as contact persons for distance education and with the Selma Center in supporting the use of platforms for dd in use by the University
• can host internships training for students interested in learning more about topics related to the areas of expertise of the laboratory