Science Information Literacy Tutorials and Pedagogy

Participatory technologies, pedagogy 2.0 and information literacy

Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Abstract Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the impact participatory technologies have had on education and the information environment in which students operate. It seeks to define a pedagogical approach that will capitalize on the benefits of participatory technologies in the classroom and applies this " pedagogy 2.0 " to information li...

Teaching Information Literacy in Nursing Using Blended Learning Pedagogy

Information literacy is a crucial skill for nurses to retrieve, judge, and provide appropriate information to patients and their caregivers. This study aimed to develop a blended course to cultivate nursing students’ informatics competency. This was a three-semester study including a development of the course, pilot-test and modification of the course design, and final implementation of the mod...

Negotiations on information-seeking expertise: A study of web-based tutorials for information literacy

Purpose: To show how different approaches to information literacy, such as they are mediated through web-based tutorials, are used as tools in negotiating the information seeking expertise of university librarians. Design/methodology/approach: A textual analysis of 31 web-based Scandinavian tutorials for information literacy has been conducted. The similarities and differences identified are an...

Deconstructing Binary Oppositions in Literacy Discourse & Pedagogy

Questioning a discourse of information literacy practice in web-based tutorials

Introduction. A number of Scandinavian Web-based tutorials on information seeking mediate a kind of discourse of information literacy practice by combining the two themes, written academic assignment and information seeking. The aim of the paper is first to examine students' experience of the pragmatic value of two of these Web-based tutorials, 'VIKO' (www.ntnu.no/viko/english) and 'UB-testen' ...