Course detail
Information Education and Literacy
FIT-IVGAcad. year: 2020/2021
The course is designed as a nine-week e-learning course. Teaching primarily focuses on the practical use of information resources, institutions and services provided by them, with aiming the Faculty of Information Technology. The objective is to teach students to work with other available electronic information resources with the possibility of their practical use in the study or professional work.
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
After completing the course, the students will be able to:
After completing the course, the students will be able to:
Prerequisites
We expect that students have the high school level knowledge of using computers.
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
KRČÁL, Martin a Zuzana TEPLÍKOVÁ. Naučte (se) citovat. 1. vyd. Blansko: Citace.com, 2014, 156 s., [46] s. příl., ISBN 978-80-260-6074-1.
KRČÁL, Martin a Zuzana TEPLÍKOVÁ. Naučte (se) citovat. 1. vyd. Blansko: Citace.com, 2014, 156 s., [46] s. příl., ISBN 978-80-260-6074-1. (in Czech)
ČSN ISO 690. Informace a dokumentace - Pravidla pro bibliografické odkazy a citace informačních zdrojů. Praha: Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví, 2011. Třídicí znak 01 0197. (in Czech)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Not applicable.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Scoring written assignments.
Exam prerequisites:
To get the credit, the student must meet both of the following requirements:
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Work placements
Not applicable.
Aims
To be information literate means to realize when and why you need information, to be able to find relevant information, to learn to recognize quality information, and to be able to enjoy and process it. The aim of the subject is to learn to recognize and understand the information needs, to be able to navigate through the available sources of information, to learn to seek properly from these sources, to recognize the quality of the results found, to be able to process correctly the results, to learn how to use and share information responsibly and ethically correctly.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
e-Learning course, no controlled participation in lectures. Knowledge of learners is verified with written assignments.
Type of course unit
Project
13 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Information institutions (10 points)
- Time management + knowledge organization (10 points)
- Creative techniques (5 points)
- Sources of expert information + Internet search (15 points)
- Evaluation of information (20 points)
- References (15 points)
- Effective reading and taking notes (5 points)
- Text creation (15 points)
- Presentation of information (5 points)
Students have to do all written assignments.
eLearning
eLearning: currently opened course