Digital literacy program at VGU is rather a flexible training course to help users advance their information and AI literacy in this digital age. The course aims to improve learners’ information searching, introduce them to modern technological tools and applications, and how they can incorporate the technologies into study, research, and collaboration ethically and responsibly. As a general rule, AI utilization is to facilitate work and study, not a replacement for honing essential skills that foster academic research and critical thinking.
Who can attend?
Whether a student trying to perfect their thesis paper or a staff member embarking on a new science project, the Library can help them reach the goal by holding a training session tailored to their purpose of study.
What’s in this course?
Digital literacy training is designed to help learners develop scholarly skills and maximize their productivity with AI.
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Skills and Techniques
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Description
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Library Use (Library Orientation)
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Introduce services and resources available at the Library and how to make the most of them for study and research.
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Academic Sources Discovery
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Familiarize with scholarly resources and databases as well as optimize search results with advanced tools and techniques.
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Source Evaluation
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Quickly verify and compare sources using AI without losing the ability to evaluate a source’s credibility and accuracy, authority, and bias.
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Citation & Reference
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Learn how to credit sources properly using standard citation styles and useful tools to facilitate the reference process.
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AI in General Use
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Perfect the use of all-purpose conversational AI tools, including document summarizing, multimodal analysis, ideas generation, etc.
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AI in Study
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Use AI as a study partner in writing refinement, work presentation, team interaction, and school work review.
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Advanced Tech Tools for Research
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Introduce AI and digital tools that help streamline research work and study.
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