Information Literacy in CEAB’s Accreditation Criteria: The Hidden Attribute
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This paper demonstrates how information literacy is a hidden attribute woven throughout CEAB’s recent accreditation criteria. The paper focuses in particular on life-long learning and describes how such a model can be developed and transferred in different engineering programs.
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