Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
180400002100	DIGITAL LITERACY	Compulsory	1	2	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

An Information technology, which involves processing, storing, managing and communicating information, is contemporarily based on remote communication systems in computerized environments. Highly intense and active use of computers in everyday life has forced us to be at least familiar with computers and computer related matters and technologies as well as remote communication issues in all areas of science. This course primarily aims to equip students with basic computer skills and to help them gain the ability to deal with computer involved tasks in their profession or everyday life.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

1	Know the description of computer and recognize hardware components.
2	Know the duties and operations of computer hardware components.
3	Can use the operating system and control settings.
4	Familiar with Internet service services, and conduct research on the internet.
5	Create a document, format, create table, set the properties of the documents and the program in Word processing application program.
6	Create a workbook, can format cells, add formula, set the characteristics of the program and workbooks in spread sheets application program.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

N/A

Recommended Optional Programme Components

N/A

Course Contents

Fundamentals of information technologies, The concept of digital life, the use of Windows operating system, Teaching the use of MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point programs which are among the basic office programs.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Fundamentals of information technologies, the concept of digital life, the logic of computers and basic computer hardware knowledge work.	N/A	N/A
2	Operating system, start menu, basic folder management.	N/A	N/A
3	Control panel, system and security.	N/A	N/A
4	Internet, The World Wide Web (www), E-Mail, search engines.	N/A	N/A
5	E-commerce, social media and internet security.	N/A	N/A
6	Word processor - First steps and basic operations to Word processor.	N/A	N/A
7	Word processor - Formatting (text, paragraph, document).	N/A	N/A
8	Word processor - Objects (table, figure, images, graphics) and printing.	N/A	N/A
9	MIDTERM EXAM	N/A	N/A
10	Spread sheets - Introduction, cells and worksheets.	N/A	N/A
11	Spread sheets - Formatting, formulas and functions.	N/A	N/A
12	Spread sheets - Charts, page setup and preparation of deliverables.	N/A	N/A
13	Electronic presentation- Basic settings, presentation creation.	N/A	N/A
14	Electronic presentation - Text, images, and table.	N/A	N/A
15	Electronic presentation - Graphics and drawing objects, display Show effects, slideshow, and output processing.	N/A	N/A
16	FINAL EXAM	N/A	N/A

Recommended or Required Reading

http://office.microsoft.com/tr-tr/ http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft BEU, Remote Education Materials

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

N/A

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	1	1
Attending Lectures	3	13	39
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	24	24
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	25	25
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			90

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6
LO1	2	4	4	3	4	3
LO2	4	3	4	4	4	3
LO3	3	5	2	3	3	4
LO4	4	3	4	4	3	3
LO5	3	3	3	2	2	3
LO6	3	2	3	4	4	3

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High