Would you like to improve your news literacy and strengthen your critical thinking skills?
This interactive and hands-on online course is designed to help you confidently navigate today’s complex media environment and become more resistant to fake news, misinformation, and propaganda.
AIM OF THE COURSE
The course is structured for two specific audiences and offers two customized learning paths:
- Trainer Module – created for educators, youth workers, and trainers who want to expand their knowledge and gain practical tools for working with young people.
- Citizen & Youth Module – aimed at young people and the wider public who want to understand how information is produced, shared, and manipulated, and how to critically assess media content.
Through 15 engaging lessons, the course explores all key aspects of news literacy and critical thinking. Topics range from understanding the role of media systems and algorithms in shaping information, to identifying fake news, misinformation, and propaganda. Participants will practice effective searching and fact-checking methods, examine the influence of AI-generated content, and build practical skills for analysing media messages, news stories, and global information flows, with a strong emphasis on youth participation and media activism.
Each lesson blends text, visuals, videos, presentations, quizzes, recommended readings, and Open Educational Resources, ensuring an interactive and practice-oriented learning experience.
The course is fully self-paced and accessible 24/7, allowing you to learn anytime and anywhere.
Developed by expert teams from the project partners and led by Dr. Aleksandar Pavlović and Romina Begaj, the course combines academic knowledge with real-world experience in media literacy and youth work.
To make the course widely accessible, it is offered in seven languages: English, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. You can choose your preferred language below.
Enroll today, strengthen your critical thinking, and take charge of the information you consume.
Find the course here: Online Courses – MEDIActive Youth: Informing the Balkans
The course was developed within the MEDIActive Youth: Informing the Balkans project and is funded by the European Union.