Open AccessEnhancing students’ professional information literacy
Author(s) -
Angela Feekery,
Kerryn Chisholm,
Carla Jeffrey,
Fiona Diesch
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of information literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 1750-5968
DOI - 10.11645/15.2.2856
Subject(s) - information literacy , lifelong learning , discipline , quality (philosophy) , indigenous , higher education , literacy , knowledge management , computer science , psychology , medical education , mathematics education , pedagogy , sociology , political science , medicine , ecology , social science , philosophy , epistemology , law , biology
Creating information literate students and future employees is an expected outcome of a tertiary education. This paper shares insights from a successful collaboration between an academic and three university librarians to create an online learning module designed to develop students’ professional information literacy capability: identifying business information types, searching online databases, and evaluating quality using a new indigenous-informed evaluation approach. Student learning was measured using reflective tasks and assessments. The paper challenges teachers and librarians to consider ways they can collaborate to explicitly embed information literacy (IL) skills development into large disciplinary courses, particularly during the transition into tertiary learning, to enhance lifelong learning capability and meet future workplace IL demands.