Digital Storytelling (DST) is a storytelling practice that is interwoven with digital media, including images, texts, sounds, and other elements. This study specifically designed a DST project based on a dialogic orientation and examined to what extent it could promote young participants’ critical and reflective mindsets.
Digital volunteers work at famous Smithsonian Museum transcribing historic documents and records and play an interactive role in creating a digital Smithsonian. They provide aid to research efforts and help make valuable information more accessible to the public.
Student Digital Civic Engagers Toolkit provides 24 tools and apps to increase the ability and motivation of university lecturers and educators to incorporate digital civic engagement activities into their curricula/teaching strategies.
The Guide to Digital Civic Engagement draws on extensive research on students’ digital civic engagement. It focuses on the conceptualisation of digital civic engagement in theoretical and empirical research and explores how digital civic engagement can be integrated into different levels of higher education (policy, teaching, and learning).
This article explores how aspects of asset-based community development might be enacted in online partnerships, in electronic asset-based community development (eABCD). A case study of a digital writing partnership between college students and rural youth is used to illustrate how students can be supported in asset-based, relationship-driven, and internally focused interactions in online service-learning collaborations.
The article discusses the features of personal self-development in the digital world, in the conditions of rapid changes in the competencies demanded by the job market, and determines the qualities of an effective employee.
This synthesis report is an analysis of the findings from the discussions held across fifteen roundtable events and two webinars, in digital action in terms of opportunities and hurdles that were encountered by the participants. The stakeholders were students, academic and research staff, decision-makers, library staff and technical staff. During the roundtables, participants were asked to consider examples of digital action and identify drivers and barriers to digital action.
The Wheel's purpose is to provide an overview of digital competencies and offer concrete tools for how these competencies can be elevated and improved. The Digital Competence Wheel is theoretically based on a major EU research project called DIGCOMP, derived from the European Parliament's inclusion of digital competence as one of the eight core competences for lifelong learning.
The study hereby presented aims to identify a set of guidelines for building trust in the context of digitally mediated sharing of collaborative lifestyles, on platforms that promote the sharing of experiences in sustainable contexts. Within the scope of this study, sharing collaborative lifestyles means a non-monetary social exchange of knowledge, skills, accommodation, and food.
The European Commission has launched several initiatives to support governments to embrace GovTech programmes to digitalise public services. For instance, the European GovTech Incubator is being developed under the Digital Europe Programme to enable cross-border and cross-domain experimentation. The term 'GovTech' refers to the use of emerging technologies and digital products and services by the government from start-ups and SMEs—instead of relying on large system integrators. GovTech shares the following three common elements: the public sector engages with start-ups and SMEs to procure innovative technology solutions, for the provision of tech-based products and services, in order to innovate and improve public services.
