Essential Digital Skills: Online Searching

Essential Digital Skills is a suite of courses for learners who want to develop their online communication skills and become more aware of how to stay safe when using devices, in order to interact more effectively in the workplace.

In this Online Searching course we will explore:
Some tips and techniques to get the best out of your browser searches
How to recognise reliable from unreliable sources, and what questions to ask when deciding if information would be suitable for certain projects
What ‘confirmation bias’ means and how to ensure it doesn’t influence your research or results