Developing Information Literacy Education Programme for the IUB 1st

Year Undergraduate Business Students

Presented by

Md. Zahid Hossain ShoebMd. Zahid Hossain Shoeb

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)

IFLA-ALP Workshop on

Information Literacy and Information Technology16 November-11 December 2009

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Content

Introduction

Motivation

ILE Mission

Goals and Objectives Goals and Objectives

Outcome

Activities

Resources and Responsibilities

Assessment

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Introduction

Information Literacy Education in Bangladesh

- IL is not well known, not popular

- There are some common factors like other developing

countries

- Earlier four participants trained from IFLA-ALP- Earlier four participants trained from IFLA-ALP

- IUB Library always recognize, IWIL by IUB Library

IUB Context

- 4 Schools, 19 undergraduate, 5 Graduate Programme

- Students come form higher or middle-higher class

- >4000 students, 256 faculties

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Motivation

Top Private University, social and local requirement, to

cope with local and global competition…

Business Students Information seeking behaviour is

with anxiety, stressed, fast, shy, trial and error…

Scenario #1: Library e-resource usage fallen down… Scenario #1: Library e-resource usage fallen down…

Scenario #2: Few senior business students accused…

Scenario #3: Examining citation analysis…

To have skills for seeking, evaluating, and managing

information gathered from multiple sources…

For problem based learning, intelligent decision, better

research, better product…

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Institutional and ILE Mission (contd.)

IUB mission, goal and strategies…

- Keywords: Higher education, international

standards, local environment, knowledge and

relevant skills, encourage and support useful

research, create knowledge, further learning research, create knowledge, further learning

opportunity, curriculum revised and adjusted,

relevance to national needs, global market

demand, free to set curriculum and method of

procedure.

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Institutional and ILE Mission

IUB Library mission and objectives…

-Keywords: dynamic and responsive, good

professional practice, foster quality,

effectiveness, variety of learning mode,

understand the objectives and information needs, understand the objectives and information needs,

provide technique of using library and

information services, promote as learning as

research tool etc…

ILE Mission…

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Goals and Objectives (contd.)

IUB business students need should be

analysed

Programme must be relevant to their

discipline and needsdiscipline and needs

Variety of students, students do not have

enough knowledge, or some have

knowledge

Not much content

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Goals and Objectives

Six goals are –

1. Defining and articulating the need for information

2. Finding needed information effectively and

locating the sources

3. Critically assessing the information3. Critically assessing the information

4. Managing and interpreting the information

5. Communication and presentation of information

6. Economic, legal and social issues for the use of

information

Objectives are defined under each goal–…

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Outcomes

Probable outcomes are defined

under each goal…

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Activities

IUB business students will learn how to

learn

They need the ability, skill, competencies

Skills must be taught, practiced, applied Skills must be taught, practiced, applied

and assessed

Different activities adopted for IUB business

students…

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Resources and Responsibilities

ILE instructors, place, time, equipments

Initially Library will provide, gradually more

resources will be provided centrally…

Responsibilities go to Librarian, Faculties and

Business SchoolBusiness School

Curriculum development, activities updating…

Provide facilities, training, seminar, workshop,

discussion

Teaching aids and Technology for flexible learning…

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Assessment

Assessment and evaluation is a part of continuing

programme of active learning

Students must be assessed about their quantitative

and qualitative measurement

variety of outcome measures, i.e. quizzes, essays, variety of outcome measures, i.e. quizzes, essays,

discussion, oral defence, direct observation, peer

and self review, tests, hands-on experience etc.

Programme outcome should also be evaluated

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Contact

Details about the contact person for

IUB ILE programme

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