Information literacy skills on the go

Abstract

Students’ understanding and integration of information literacy (IL) skills are fundamental to higher education and lifelong learning. Development and implementation of thirteen mobile lessons application (http://renmil.ca/ ) in the Mobile Information Literacy Tool (MIL) was the result of a unique collaboration between faculty and the library. Lessons demonstrated how to locate, evaluate, and use information effectively. Mixed methods pilot study findings (Hanbidge, Sanderson, & Tin, 2015) informed the Canadian project’s second stage analysis to determine fluency in digital literacy skills and testing of the MIL tool. One hundred and twenty-eight undergraduate Arts students from eight different classes majoring in psychology, social work, English or social development studies participated in the study to determine the effectiveness of using mobile technology to enhance their IL skills. Preliminary successes and experiences with overcoming the barriers to support anytime, anywhere student mobile information literacy training are discussed and future directions are recommended.

Conciliando el móvil con el aula. Mobile-learning como experiencia de aprendizaje en educación superior a través de Wooclap

“…Autores como Suresh Babu y Sridevi (2018) señalan que facilita la adquisición de conocimientos, el desarrollo de la autonomía y una mayor participación del alumnado. Al-Fraihat et al (2020) y Jeno et al ( 2019) añaden que su aplicación en la educación superior permite una mayor implicación de los estudiantes en su aprendizaje y mejora sus competencias y alfabetización digital (Hanbidge et al, 2018). Pero, al igual que ocurre con la integración de las TIC en las aulas, los profesores y los responsables pedagógicos de los centros educativos deben conjugar sus ventajas con las posibles limitaciones que presenta esta metodología: la necesidad de una formación docente adecuada (Suárez-Álvarez et al, 2020) y la disponibilidad de los recursos necesarios por parte de la institución educativa (Aznar Díaz et al, 2018).…”

Development and implementation of the MobILcaps application for the teaching and development of information literacy in Higher Education

“…This combination of approach, mobile technologies and different visual resources contributes to the optimization of teaching-learning processes and the interest in the acquisition of information skills. In this case, the role of librarians in teaching resources that encourage interest in research and continuous training [18], [19].…”