NDLI: The challenge of embedding Information Literacy as a graduate attribute into engineering and technology courses

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Keleher, P. Keleher, J. Simon, K.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: CQ University, Australia (Keleher, P.; Keleher, J.; Simon, K.)
Abstract	Universities and professional bodies require graduates to be skilled practitioners educated to a high standard of competency with proficiency in a diversity of graduate attributes. Some attributes are discipline based while others are of a more generic nature. Proficiency in the generic attribute of Information Literacy can provide the necessary scaffolding to enable practitioners to engage in the digital landscape to identify, locate, evaluate, manage and apply information and acknowledge information sources in their chosen field or profession. Non-technical courses have always been considered better suited to addressing Information Literacy skills. Commonly, assessment in these types of programs consists of written essays, analysing case studies, and report writing; assessment which is generally more applicable to the implicit embedding of Information Literacy skills. Technical courses, generally, rely more heavily on mathematical computations and technical descriptions and drawings to demonstrate knowledge and information and are proving to be more challenging to effectively embed Information Literacy as a learning outcome. The Information Literacy framework consists of six competency levels; essentially identify, find, evaluate, manage, apply, and acknowledge. This paper explores the preliminary process of including Information Literacy implicitly, into assessment items in an undergraduate engineering technical course; Control Systems Analysis and Design.
File Size	572313
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612844688
ISSN	01905848
e-ISBN	9781612844695
e-ISBN	9781612844671
DOI	10.1109/FIE.2011.6142900
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-10-12
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Libraries Australia Control theory Materials Standards Databases Cities and towns information literacy assessment generic skills graduate attributes
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computer Science Applications Software

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