This blog post presents the research and evidence that provides insights into how to enhance your students’ information skills.

How can you, as a teacher, enhance your students’ information skills?

That is one of the central questions of the Information-Wise projects. To answer this question, the project team gathered evidence to get an in-depth understanding of the current status of information skills of the Maastricht University (UM) student.

How was evidence gathered?

Through a UM-wide survey, guerrilla interviews, a quick scan and two literature reviews regarding the changing information landscape and analysing informed learning. All these findings led to a number of recommendations, visualised in the infographic.

Overall, the project team recommends taking a constructive alignment approach when integrating information literacy practices in your courses and curricula.

What does that mean?

Scholars indicate that information literacy education integrated into the curricu-lum results in deeper understanding of the subject content because it guides students in how to gather, evaluate, and apply the information needed to complete the coursework (Dodd, 2007; Maybee, Bruce, Lupton, & Rebmann, 2017).

In order to constructively align and improve information literacy teaching in faculty curricula we propose the 8 recommendations, presented in the infographic.

For a more in-depth explanation of the recommendations and full details of the research part of this pro-ject, please read the project midterm report.

Interested in the literature reviews? Read the open monograph.

• Author: Julie de Ronde, Project coordinator Innovation EDLAB

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