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ODF 001 Module 5: Storage and Access of Digital Resources
Module Description
This module will expand your understanding of digital storage and access. It will nurture your skills in storing and retrieving digital resources using various technologies for your research, teaching and learning, and administration benefits. By the end of this course, we hope that you will have expanded knowledge that can be applied in your working life.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this module learners are expected to have developed knowledge, skills and values related to:
- Understand the nature of digital storage and a digital content management system
- Access and use digital storage and content management systems in your work and studies
- Share learning resources with using ICT facilities
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Module Resources
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Online Learning Orientation: As some of you may not have participated in an online course previously, you may like to explore some basic pointers on engaging in online learning in general and Moodle in particular. Please go through all the items presented below.Show more / hide
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The first link titled The core Rules of Netiquette contains the guidelines that governs the socially acceptable behaviour when interacting online
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The Introductions link provides you with the opportunity to briefly introduce yourself. Please click on the link and follow the Instructions provided
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This topic gives you the insight into access to digital resources. You are going to recognize the different types and formats of digital resources and learn on the different approaches and technique you can use to search and access relevant digital resources from Internet for different purposes. Furthermore this topic introduces the benefits of using digital resources in our daily operations and the challenges. This topic also enlightens on issues relating to academic databases.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this topic you should be able to:-
- Define and elaborate digital resources
- Identify various types of digital resources
- Use digital resources in everyday life
- Identify the different nature of digital resources and their challenges and benefits
- Search and access relevant digital resources via the Internet
- Exploit the potential of ICT technologies to facilitate access to digital resources for learning and teaching
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Introduction
This topic will develop your knowledge on existing digital resources. The topic will cover the different standard file formats and media which support them. Also we will look at the common application files that we are using during our daily work activities including audio, image, video and their file extensions.
Objectives
You should be able to identify and use a variety of:
- Different file formats particularly standard formats
- Different media players and their associated file formats
- Digital media content
- Digital media for delivering a specific outcome
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Introduction
This topic will expand your understanding and knowledge on storage of digital resources. We will look at ways in which you can store your digital resources into digital devices and cloud storage technologies. By the end of this unit, we hope that students will have expanded their knowledge on different types of digital storage devices like flash disk, CD’s etc and cloud based technologies like Dropbox and Google drive in their working or learning environment.
Objectives
At the end of this topic you should be able to;
- Understanding the concept of digital storage
- Identify different types of digital storage media
- Adapt to different new digital storage technology
- Define the concept of cloud storage
- Identify different types of cloud storage
- Apply different types of cloud technology in daily life
- Identify advantages and disadvantages of cloud storage
- Identify the challenges of cloud storage on data security and privacy
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In this topic we are going to discuss about electronic library and its applications and Institutional Contents Management System with their applications in everyday life. The topic is moreover going to address the benefits as well as challenges associated with electronic library applications from user’s point of view rather. The approaches of searching for relevant information using electronic library is also addressed in this topic. Furthermore we are going to discuss on the issues of repositories as one of important web tools for managing digital resources
Objectives of the topic
At the end of this unit you should be able to:-
- Explain the concept of electronic libraries
- Search for relevant information or resources using electronic library
- Identify and explain the concept of contents management system
- Identify the benefits and challenges of using Contents Management System
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