Digital Wellbeing INGENIUM Micro-credential

INGENIUM is an alliance of ten institutions of higher education from ten European countries. We seek to enable each member of the network to offer high-quality study and qualification programmes with digital components which are shared within the INGENIUM Alliance. Due to the internationalisation of courses and an increase in student and staff mobility, the promotion of intercultural competence among teachers and students is of central interest to us.

This INGENIUM micro-credential certifies that the learner has successfully met all five learning outcomes (LO) of the Digital Wellbeing programme (SOCI7019):

• L01: Collaborate in a team environment to evaluate existing research on the role and impact of design, development and deployment of digital technology on health and wellbeing in society.
• L02: Identify and assess techniques used in digital technology design to promote engagement.
• L03: Investigation and assessment of techniques to critically evaluate and appraise online information.
• L04: Research conscious and unconscious habits which relate to digital technology use and wellbeing, investigate the science of habits.
• L05: Investigate and evaluate supports for positive mental and physical health in relation to digital technology use.

Participants have completed ~125 hours of learner effort, including lectures, labs, coursework and assessment. The participants, in international teams, presented and reported on the psychology of internet use and relationships with wellbeing (LO 1, 2, 3), as well as writing a personal reflective journal on the learnings in the programme. The reflection required the learner to consider the personal and societal impact of the use, design, development and deployment of digital technologies (LO 4, 5).