Information Literacy Projects realized by Division of Information and Library Studies on Masaryk University Brno

Division of Information and Library Studies

Division of ILS mainly focuses on:

new technologies and development trends on the Internetcompetitive intelligence, information literacy and social informaticsinformation sciencedevelopment of soft skills in information and library studiessupport of the innovation of new online educational applications

Division of Information and Library Studies

It has been accredited at the Faculty of Arts (Philosophy) since 1991 (and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year)

It offers three programs of studies: three-year Bachelor's and two-year Master's degree programs and life-long education in full-time as well as combined forms

It has more than 400 active students It is the main and the most successful researcher of a number of

projects from OP EC (Czech Ministry of Education) and from Public Library Information Services Grants

It actively supports more than 20 partner and student projects within the field

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What is information literacy?

What is information literacy?

What is information literacy?

Which of our projects are mainly focused on information literacy?

NAKLIV National Cluster of Information Literacy

5 good reasons why to be interested in NAKLIV:  Information literacy is our pass to the future World doesn’t reward information but knowledge Knowledge gained from the project will always be actual, interesting

and extraordinary You will learn about everything you have never heard before You will learn to cooperate even to your surprise

NAKLIV should be a synonym for partnership, cooperation and sharing experiences from the field of the information education.

About NAKLIV

NAKLIV Is European project authorized within the Operational Program Education for Competitiveness (under The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports ) and it is guaranted by the Division of Information and Library Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.

The main goal of the project is to establish informal partnership of institutions (libraries) which are dealing with information literacy and which have decided to gain profits from the mutual cooperation.

The aim of the project is to found the net (cluster) and to tie up the functional cooperation between all participating institutions. The institutions involved in the project have wide experiences with information education, but all their activities in this field have individual character.

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Situation in the middle of the project duration

About KPI (Information Literacy Course)

KPI is completely e-learning course created in 2007 by students and lecturers of the Division of Information and Library Studies

KPI is optional course, credit-evaluated, available for all Masaryk’s University students on each spring term.

The main goal is to extend and improve the ability to work with information which is one of the basic academic skills and to develop the information literacy with the help of interactive materials.

The course is unique on the Czech Universities How does it work? – Go to course!

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Aim of the module

Keywords

Time for studying

Introduction

Interactive lectureTextual support

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Summary

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Content of 13 e-learning units

KPI 2 Creative work with information

Course Creative work with information is supporting the thematic area of  the development of information literacy of students. It continues and complements the traditional topics of work with information. The course has started in 2010 with first 20 students and has the same features as KPI I. Nowadays is the registration open for 100 students.The main topics are:

BrainstormingMind MapsInformation HygieneTime ManagementSpeed Creative WritingText TypographyPresentation of InformationVerbal and nonverbal ExpressionLearning TechniquesPublishing on the Internet

View in the future

On spring 2011 was announced a new call for projects In response on this call - 2 new projects

1) extended Information Literacy Course 2) ERNIE – Educational and Research Network

of Information ProfEssionals

We are expecting the final decision (by Ministry of Education)

Cross fingers!

Thank you for your attention!

Iva Zadražilovázadrazilova@phil.muni.cz