Information Literacy in Higher Education: policy and Practice in Taiwan

INFORMATION LITERACY IN HIGHER

EDUCATION: POLICY AND PRACTICE IN

TAIWAN Mei-Mei Wu, Ph.DProfessor, Graduate Institute of Library and Information

Studies

National Taiwan Normal University

meiwu@ntnu.edu.tw

吳美美 (Mei-Mei Wu) (CC) This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution

Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.2012

2012 ALA Annual Conference How Taiwan is Maximizing Information Services through Public Libraries, Digitalization, LIS Education, Information Literacy, Library Assc. & Globalizing, Anaheim Conventional Center 202C, 20120625 8:00-10:00.

Outline2

Background -- An information Literacy Environment in Taiwan

Government’s efforts Making online course standards and online

course accreditation IL course as liberal Art Education

Phase one contribution Phase two contribution

Teaching Information Literacy in Higher Education

Closing remarks

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Information Literacy Publication profile1989 to 2011

A total of 597 publications since1989 to 2011,

among them, 253 journal papers and 344 thesis

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1994 2000 20052010

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Some flavor: A similar trend

ERIC

CEPS

GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS 1

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Government’s Efforts 26

Promoting Information Literacy related courses

Make three IL related courses as the core in Liberal

Arts education in colleges and universities

Library and Information Literacy (LIL) is one of the

three courses

Phase One: Developing 18 units of Digital Learning Materials (2008-2010)

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Digital Learning Materials in MOE’s UPS

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Phase Two: Promoting Information Literacy related courses – (Project 2010-11)

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(1) COORDINATE TASK FORCE TEAM

Ten faculties in ten universitie

s and colleges from island

wide participate in the Task

Force Team. Participatory

faculty is required to select

at least six modules from

MOE’s DLM for their course

design and to participate

monthly meetings.

MONTHLY MEETINGS ONLINE ON SITE

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Ten faculties from ten universities/ colleges

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(2) ONLINE COURSE TEACHING AND ACCREDITATION

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Use Moodle as Platform13

Use of Pre- and Post- Questionnaires

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(3) DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING MATERIALS15

(4) NUMEROUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS Program to Share New Knowledge

• Experience Sharing: Apply the 18 Modules into

Literal Arts Courses

• Design and Production of DLO

• Problem-Based Learning Approach to

Instructional Design

• Facilitate Social Network

• Certification of DLO and Online Course

• Creative Commons in DLO

Program to Share New Technical tools • Virtual World: Second Life

• Video Conferencing: JoinNet and Adobe Connect

• DLM Design Tool: PowerCam

• DLM Design Tool: Adobe Captivate

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CLOSING REMARKS17

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Thank You for Listening

Questions and Comments ?Mei-Mei Wu, Ph.DProfessor, Graduate Institute of Library and Information StudiesNational Taiwan Normal University

meiwu@ntnu.edu.tw