Information Literacy
Information Literacy offers the opportunity for students to develop transferable skills in the field of Information Seeking Behaviour. Specific information skills are reviewed and evaluated within a theoretical framework. Evaluation of Information Literacy theories and models forms the basis of self-questioning and critical thinking skills needed for flexible continual development of information seeking skills over the long term and enable students to consider ways in which they might apply this experience and knowledge to teaching others basic information literacy skills.
This course aims to enable students to becoming critical thinkers, intellectually curious observers, creators and users of information. That is, to become information literate and capable of sustaining and developing and teaching to others, that literacy skill throughout the changes of technology and information sources that will become available in coming years.
The course will introduce:
- definitions and discussions about the meaning and purpose of information literacy as a concept and within the information profession
- theories of information literacy and information behaviour
- information seeking, information sources and the generic skills needed to use them
- educational theory and practice and their application to information literacy
- e-learning technologies and their application to information literacy
- evaluation techniques and their application to information literacy programmes