Distance students and online research: Promoting information literacy through media literacy

Perspectives on Media Literacy, Digital Literacy and Information Literacy

The cultural landscape poses different challenges for teachers. Beyond developing reading and writing skills, it is necessary to emerge in the digital culture and master the different codes of different languages. In this context, media education studies discuss the educational possibilities of interpreting, problematizing, and producing different kinds of texts in critical and creative ways, t...

Integration of Information and Scientific Literacy: Promoting Literacy in Undergraduates

The Association of College and Research Libraries recommends incorporating information literacy (IL) skills across university and college curricula, for the goal of developing information literate graduates. Congruent with this goal, the Departments of Biological Sciences and Information Science developed an integrated IL and scientific literacy (SL) exercise for use in a first-year biology cou...

Media Literacy and Information Literacy and its Impact on Entrepreneurial Ability

Background and Aim: The aim search was to investigate the relationship between media literacy and information literacy of students of communication and information sciences and knowledge studies, and its impact on their entrepreneurial ability. Methods: This is a survey correlational method. Population consists of postgraduate students in information science and knowledge and communication scie...

The Relationship of Research Capabilities and Information Literacy with Research Anxiety in Physical Education Students

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of research capabilities and information literacy with research anxiety prediction in postgraduate students of physical education. The research method was descriptive correlation. The statistical population consisted of all postgraduate students of physical education at Mohaghegh Ardabili University in 2017-2018 (N=130). 102 students ...

Media literacy and media bias: Are media literacy students less susceptible to non-verbal judgment biases?