University Students’ Digital Literacy Competence

Abstract

In this digital age, processing online information shapes a new form of literacy that emerges Digital Literacy (DL) and capability on this becomes a necessity for citizen in global and digital era therefore this study aims to cultivate digital literacy in Critical Reading Class, a general subject for engineering students through Learning Management System such as Schoology. The Schoology is used as a media to foster this literacy in the class then a questionnaire distributed to depict the impacts of this infusion to the course therefore, this study is conducted under a case study framework. The collected data was analysed using DigCom 2.1 DL framework and the result of this study shows that Schoology builds the participants' DL competences particularly information and data literacy and communication using technologies. This system helps the teacher as well as the students to exploit the DL competences. However, it requires teachers' capability in handling the system. Moreover, this study recommends an intensive teacher training on the mediated ICT instruction and further research on other competence areas as this study merely focuses on certain competence areas.