美国高校的信息素质教育及其启示

介绍了美国有关信息素质教育的定义、研究发展经过、美国高等教育中关于素质能力的标准以及美国高校图书馆在信息素质教育中的一些做法，从中得出了一些启示。     

信息素养与知识产权素养比较研究

信息时代的来临和知识经济的快速发展,对人们的素养提出了更高的要求。信息素养和知识产权素养应运而生。文章重点揭示了二者的复杂关系,并就两者的重要性提出了自己的观点。参考文献6。     

新形势下高校图书馆采访工作新策略

分析了在高等教育深化改革的新形势下高校图书馆采访工作所面临的网络带来的影响和高等教育提出的新要求,阐述了采访工作在建立采访信息系统、拓宽采访渠道和提高采访人员素质等方面所应采取的策略。     

论信息素质

论述了素质的概念和演变,分析了独立于科学素质、人文素质之外的信息素质的构成要素———信息意识、信息能力、信息伦理,揭示了信息素质教育的意义和重要内容,强调坚持专业学习与业余学习相结合的“两条腿走路方针”,是实现信息素质教育的根本前提。     

解读高校信息素质教育

大学生信息素质现状不容乐观，高等教育工作者应充分认识信息素质教育的重要性，在加强信息检索课教学的同时建设信息素质教育系统工程，以提高大学生的信息素质。     

Evaluation of Internet Information Sources by High School Students in Ghana

The Internet clearly presents the opportunity for students to expand their knowledge at a fast pace, since they are able to access enormous amount of information. However, accessing the Internet also has its downside since not all information is of good quality. The study explored how 12th grade students at a high school in Ghana evaluated online information sources. These students and the head of the Information Communication Technology department respond to self-administered questionnaires and a semi-structured interview, respectively. The study found that most of the high school students did some kind of an evaluation of online information sources, however, they were not applying the right criteria. The study further revealed that students were not introduced to evaluation criteria at school and this had contributed to the gap in their evaluation competencies.     

Libraries and Spatial Literacy: Toward Next-Generation Education

The role of the library is to assist citizens in skills development critical to national interest and empowerment as literacy ambassadors, in general. Specifically, the work by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (1994) indicates that spatial literacy is for every citizen and not just a set of workforce specialists. Hence, the use of maps in decision making and problem solving will become fundamental to all professions, including library professionals. Thus, a spatial literacy awareness and rationale for such as standard job ability is discussed as a future librarian workforce proficiency and knowledge transfer medium.     

MICTS: Municipal ICT Schools – A Means for Bridging the Digital Divide Between Rural and Urban Communities

There is a substantial difference in use and development of information and communication technologies and services between and within countries. Some denote this phenomenon as the digital divide.This paper addresses the competence aspect of the digital divide. It proposes municipal ICT schools as one model aimed to bridge this gap and provides an assessment of the model based on the results from a field trial in three rural municipalities in Norway. The model brings the benefits of increased competence of ICT in the communities but in addition have a potential with regard to stimulating talent development, serving as a resource for local business and offering meeting places in the communities for building social capital. The model may be successfully implemented within reasonable economic limitations but is also challenging in several ways, for instance on how teaching resources are recruited and supported.The purpose of the paper is to bring forward the discussion about how to bring all people, also those in rural areas, to be participators in the information technology age.     

Leveraging information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance education equity,quality, and efficiency: case studies of Bangladesh and Nepal

ABSTRACT

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have had significant impacts on many sectors in today’s knowledge economy. In developing and emerging countries, ICT have enhanced equity, quality, and efficiency in the education sector. However, the adoption of ICT in the South Asian countries’ education sector has not been at scale and its impacts have been limited. There are several gaps and issues that are hindering the wider adoption of ICT and limiting its impacts in the education sector. Through the case studies of the adoption of ICT for education in Bangladesh and Nepal, this paper examines the gaps and issues to be addressed in order to better leverage ICT to enhance education equity, quality, and efficiency. This discussion is guided by the ICT in the education framework that has been developed by the authors, and could provide insights into the state of ICT in education and offer strategies to better leverage ICT for the education sector of other countries in South Asia and the region.