Hibernia College updates and expands its Digital Literacy OER

This guest post is by Irene O’Dowd, Ann Byrne and Emberly Davey from the Digital Learning Department in Hibernia College. 

Screenshots from the Digital Literacy OER (Image: Hibernia College, 2025)

The Digital Literacy OER development team at Hibernia College are delighted to announce the re-launch of their Digital Literacy OER with additional content. The OER was initially launched in late 2023, with three lessons:

• Information literacy
• Digital wellness and identity
• Communication and collaboration

The updated version includes an additional four lessons:

• Digital technology proficiency
• Solving common digital problems
• Creating digital content with AI support
• Digital learning and development

During both phases of development, the OER development team consulted several well-recognised digital literacy frameworks, including DigComp 2.2 (2022), Jisc’s Digital Capabilities Framework (2017), and the CAUL Digital Dexterity Framework (2020). These frameworks informed the content of the various lessons, which were also shaped by recent trends such as the increasing pervasiveness of GenAI tools.

The team are delighted to offer the course as a freely available OER, supporting several of the Sustainable Development Goals (UN, 2015) and encouraging digital citizenship (Council of Europe, 2023) at Hibernia College and beyond.

How to access the OER

The OER was developed using Articulate Rise and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. It is free to reuse and adapt with attribution. It is freely available on Hibernia College’s digital repository, IASC. The course is uploaded to IASC as a zipped folder which includes usage instructions. It can be accessed on IASC or using the QR code below:

QR code to access the Digital Literacy OER (Hibernia College, 2025)

The resource is also listed on OER Commons: https://oercommons.org/courses/digital-literacy-oer

References

CAUL (2020) CAUL Digital dexterity framework. Available at: https://www.caul.edu.au/digital-dexterity-framework (Accessed: 10 November 2025).

Council of Europe (2023) The concept. Available at: https://www.coe.int/en/web/digital-citizenship-education/the-concept#:~:text=Digital%20citizens%20can%20be%20described,step%20with%20evolutions%20in%20society (Accessed: 10 November 2025).

JISC (2017) Building digital capabilities: The six elements defined. Available at: https://digitalcapability.jisc.ac.uk/what-is-digital-capability/individual-digital-capabilities/ (Accessed: 10 November 2025).

Vuorikari, R., Kluzer, S. and Punie,Y. (2022) DigComp 2.2. The digital competence framework for citizens. Available at: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/50c53c01-abeb-11ec-83e1-01aa75ed71a1/language-en (Accessed: 10 November 2025).

United Nations (UN) (2015) Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. Available at: https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/publications/21252030%20Agenda%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20web.pdf (Accessed: 10 November 2025).