VIKERA07 Information Literacy

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Dagmar Chytková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Michal Lorenz, Ph.D.
Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Dagmar Chytková
Supplier department: Division of Information and Library Studies – Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
basic computer literacy
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives
Objective: Managing of study habits:
  • support critical thinking
  • ability to retrieval information and learning objects
  • evaluate relevance and reliability of information
  • effectively organize knowledge
  • take advantage of and actively use ICT

    Topics include not only to ability to search and evaluate information, but they correspond to components of information literacy - functional literacy (prose literacy, document literacy, quantitative literacy) and computer literacy.

    At the end of this course, students should be able to:
  • define basic concepts of research topics
  • determine his/her information needs
  • search and select relevant sources of information
  • know and use traditional and electronic domain information sources
  • effectively use various retrieval tools
  • evaluate information
  • organize and use information
  • understand difference between retrieval tools for electronics information resources
  • utilize electronic information services of libraries in study and practice
  • work with scholarly papers
  • orientate in new internet services
  • understand ethical and legal questions concerned with information and information technologies
    • Syllabus
    • E-learning course contents themes:
    • How to define a topic and plan a search?
    • Where do search a research information: information sources?
    • How to search a research information: search strategy?
    • How to use a special database and the Internet search techniques?
    • How to organise, evaluate and communicate information?
    • How to work with a scientific text?
    • Plagiarism, Copyright laws
    Teaching methods
    E-learning, tutorials, lectures
    Assessment methods
    Distance online course include 13 topic modules.
    Written test on computer:
  • A 100 – 93 points
  • B 92 – 85 points
  • C 84 – 77 points
  • D 76 – 69 points
  • E 68 – 61 points
  • F 60 – 0 points
    Continuously assign homeworks with terms of delivery included in particular modules or lectures
    • Language of instruction
    English
    Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
    The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
    The course is taught annually.
    General note: ERASMUS.
    Information on the extent and intensity of the course: blended learning.
    The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
    • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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