Information literacy courses for university students: some experiments and some experience
Abstract
Focuses on some official courses, organised at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and at the University of Antwerp, in Belgium, that are all related to information literacy, mainly focusing on information retrieval. The following components of the courses and of the course materials are presented: a brief overview of the contents of each course, which is made available through the WWW in the official framework organised by the university; a document for each course, with an overview of the contents, the aims, and the evaluation procedure; a series of slides related to the course contents; questions, tasks, problems, practical exercises for the students; case studies to be carried out by each student as part of the evaluation procedure; an extensive bibliography about the subjects covered in the courses; and communication with students using electronic mail.
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Citation
Nieuwenhuysen, P. (2000), "Information literacy courses for university students: some experiments and some experience", Campus-Wide Information Systems, Vol. 17 No. 5, pp. 167-174. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650740010360539
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