Two years of information culture development for supporting higher education: Initiatives, teacher’s perceptions and future actions

Machin-Mastromatteo, Juan-Daniel . Two years of information culture development for supporting higher education: Initiatives, teacher’s perceptions and future actions., 2015 In: UNSPECIFIED, (ed.) Communications in Computer and Information Science Vol. 552 (Information literacy: Moving toward sustainability). Springer International Publishing Switzerland, pp. 517-526. [Book chapter]

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English abstract

Information Culture Development (ICD) is a holistic information literacy program that was established in 2013 and developed at CETYS Universidad in Mexico. ICD caters to all university stakeholders with different initiatives that are contained within ICD’s four axes: (a) curriculum and learning support, (b) information and digital literacies development, (c) research and scientific communication support, and (d) evaluation and communication of results. This article presents such initiatives and the instruments used to evaluate them. Moreover, it analyses recent interviews with eight academic staff that have known of and benefited from these initiatives, both for themselves and for their students. The data analysis offers a means of determining ICD’s role in supporting the development of an information culture and positively influencing teaching, learning and research practices in the university. Furthermore, academic staff insights help guide the program’s further development, by pointing toward the need for future actions and strategies.

Item type: Book chapter
Keywords: information literacy, digital literacy, information culture, higher education, CETYS Universidad, Mexico
Subjects: C. Users, literacy and reading.
Depositing user: Juan-Daniel Machin-Mastromatteo
Date deposited: 28 Mar 2017 12:30
Last modified: 28 Mar 2017 12:30
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/31060

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