Designing for fake news literacy training: A problem-based undergraduate online-course

作者:

Highlights:

• We address emergency online learning and infodemic during Covid-19 pandemic.

• We review current literature on online news cognitive processing and problem-based instructional design.

• We design, develop and test an educational sciences undergraduate online problem-based course on fake news.

• Student feedback on the appeal of certain design elements was mostly positive; improvements of others were suggested.

• Student fake news credibility assessment strongly improved; course papers reflected good to very good academic achievement.

摘要

•We address emergency online learning and infodemic during Covid-19 pandemic.•We review current literature on online news cognitive processing and problem-based instructional design.•We design, develop and test an educational sciences undergraduate online problem-based course on fake news.•Student feedback on the appeal of certain design elements was mostly positive; improvements of others were suggested.•Student fake news credibility assessment strongly improved; course papers reflected good to very good academic achievement.

论文关键词:Problem-based learning,Fake news,Emergency online learning,Higher education,Self-regulated learning

论文评审过程:Received 25 September 2020, Revised 16 March 2021, Accepted 25 March 2021, Available online 29 March 2021, Version of Record 19 April 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106796