Research Guides: Media Literacy: Online Courses and Guides

Free courses

Checkology Virtual Classroom
A place where students discover how to navigate today's challenging information landscape by using the core skills and concepts of news literacy.
Post-Truth: Fake News & a New Era of Information Literacy
Made for librarians and information specialists, learn ways to teach how to tell if news is real. Can you spot fake news? Help others differentiate truth and fiction and become an ambassador for information literacy.
Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world
A detailed article with numerous videos, news literacy vocabulary, and fact checking sites with a post truth teaching toolkit and resources for a news literacy toolkit.

Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens
A free six-week joint Coursera course will help students develop critical thinking skills to judge the reliability of information on social media, the internet, TV, radio and newspapers.
Newseum ED
Resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills using standards-aligned lesson plans, videos, primary sources, virtual classes and programs.

In 10 episodes, John Green will teach you how to navigate the internet! He's partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to teach you practical, hands-on skills to figure out what is going on, online.

Indiana University - Fake News Guide

Penn State University - Fake News Guide