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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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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