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Planning, delivery and evaluation of information literacy training for engineering and technology students

Stuart Palmer and Barry Tucker
spalm@deakin.edu.au.nospam, barry@deakin.edu.au.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from addresses).

Abstract Information literacy has become an important skill for undergraduate students due to societal changes that have seen information become a valuable commodity, the need for graduates to become lifelong learners, and the recognition that information literacy is an underpinning generic skill for effective learning in higher education. This paper describes a sequence of activities and technologies designed to help students learn and practice information literacy skills. These activities have been purposefully designed and integrated into a first-year engineering and technology study unit as a core syllabus element. A formal evaluation of aspects of these activities was planned and undertaken in semester one 2003.

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