FF:VIKERA06 Information Education

VIKERA06 Information Education

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives (in Czech)

Objectives:

introduce systematic educational activities and particular projects of all types od libraries

present creative application of didactics in information education

analyse broad perspective of foreign as well as Czech information politics and their educational and strategic documents

demonstrate foreign and Czech model projects of information education

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

define concept of information literacy

understand problems of information literacy

prepare information literacy programs

Syllabus (in Czech)

Information literacy concept, models and standards
Information policy in the Czech Republic and foreing countries
International developments and cooperation in the field of information literacy, the main institutions
Information literacy in any type of libraries
Projects, trends in the field of Information literacy
Didactics, teaching skills for librarians
Planning & Administering information literacy programs
Developing course syllabus for information literacy

Literature

Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching (HILT) [online]. Cardiff: Cardiff University 2009. 178 s. Dostupný na: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/educationandtraining/infolit/hilt/
CATTS, Ralph; LAU, Jésus. Towards Information Literacy Indicators. Conceptual Framework Paper. [online]. Paris: UNESCO 2008. Dostupný na WWW: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001587/158723e.pdf
GRASSIAN, Esther S. and Joan R. KAPLOWITZ. Information literacy instruction : theory and practice. 2nd ed. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2009, xxvii, 412. ISBN 9781555706661. info
NEEDHAM, Joyce. Teaching elementary information literacy skills with the Big6. Columbus: Linworth, 2009, xvi, 310. ISBN 9781586833268. info
Information literacy instruction handbook. Edited by Christopher N. Cox - Elizabeth Blakesley. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008, 236 s. ISBN 9780838909638. info

Teaching methods (in Czech)

lectures, class discussion, group projects, facultative and compulsory homeworks, e-learning

Assessment methods (in Czech)

oral exam, group project

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
General note: ERASMUS.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013.