Overview of digital commerce

- [Voiceover] In this chapter, I want to discuss…digital commerce,…which is the buying and selling of goods online.…In 2014, in the United States alone,…online retail sales were over 300 billion dollars.…That's 300 billion dollars.…There's been at least 15% growth in this category…for the past five years.…And of these sales, about 30% of them…are done on mobile devices.…As online retailers like Amazon.com become more popular,…the number of people buying products online…is skyrocketing.…

We all, including our students, have the ability…to pull out a digital device almost anywhere,…purchase something online,…and have it delivered to our doorstep.…This topic may seem slightly out of the scope…of this course,…but this is part of digital citizenship.…There's an urgent need for us to help educate our children…on becoming responsible and informed consumers…when online.…In order to prepare students to be responsible…online consumers,…we must help them develop important…critical thinking skills in order to…determine safe and secure sites to purchase from,…