[Web4lib] Information literacy requirments

[Alma Garcia]

Just to provide some clearification,  our current requirement for all enter students is a course that includeds the MS Office requirements, but the major part if our Mills Information Literacy Evaluation (MILE) which is based on Sreachpath.

Our IT department has been very critical of MILE and thinks is simply shows students how to search the WEB.  The have not taken MILE.

I thank all who have responded so far and shared their insights.

Alma

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
Sent: June 18, 2008 06:31 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Information literacy requirments


Alma Garcia wrote:
>
> We are re-evaluating our current Information literacy requirement for all entering students and are wondering what, if anything , is being  used in higher education.  We currently require all entering student to  take an online class that has a tutorial based on Searchpath as well as Office 2007 Level 1 for Word, PowerPoint and Excel.  Students must pass the associated assessments with a score of 70% or higher to fulfill the requirements.
>



You may need to share your definition of information literacy and the
goals of your requirement.  My first reaction is that basic familiarity
with one office suite is not the same as information literacy.


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Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu



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