scholarly journals Time for a Paradigm Shift: The New ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Banks ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Ivona Tătar-Vîstraş

Abstract We are witnessing a paradigm shift regarding the theatrologist’s position in the Romanian theatre environment. While, until recently, theatrology meant cultural journalism, this definition is no longer sufficient or attractive for secondary school graduates. Romania’s higher education offer has changed increasingly in the last years, in the attempt to keep up with the requirements of the labour market; the solution was provided by the area of cultural management. Every last faculty in this sector covers the new direction of study and research. This article seeks to investigate the existing educational offers, which should allow an understanding and a new complete image of the theatrologist in Romania; in our opinion, this image will have an increasing impact on the national theatre community, shaped, of course, by the new directions of study.


2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 394-415
Author(s):  
Tessa Sauerwein

Zusammenfassung Das Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education macht einfallsreich und erfinderisch – gerade in Coronazeiten und darüber hinaus. Der Beitrag berichtet über die aktuellen Fortschritte des preisgekrönten Konzeptes FILL (Framework Information Literacy Lessons), das sich in seiner digitalen Weiterentwicklung als FILL for Future (F4F) präsentiert. Mit innovativen und spielerischen Impulsen aus dem Framework reichert es bibliothekarische Schulungspraxis an. Damit gilt F4F als beispielhaftes Projekt in der globalisierten Informationswelt. Es präsentiert sich offen und vernetzt, wie etwa Teaching Libraries mit ihren Zielgruppen. Ganzheitlich gestaltet tragen die vielfältigen Aktivitäten von F4F zur Verbreitung des US-amerikanischen Frameworks weiter und nachhaltig bei.


2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110201
Author(s):  
Alison Hicks ◽  
Annemaree Lloyd

Previous research has demonstrated that professional narratives reference discourses that shape the practice of information literacy within higher education. This article uses discourse analysis method to identify how information literacy discourses construct and position teaching librarians within higher education. Texts analysed include four recent English-language models of information literacy and 16 textbooks. Analysis suggests the existence of two distinct narratives related to the role, expertise and professional practice of teaching librarians. In the outward-facing narrative librarian work is typically absent from guidelines for practice. In contrast, book introductions, which constitute the inward-facing narrative, centre professional librarians yet simultaneously position them as incompetent, or as lacking the skills and understandings that they need to be effective in this setting. These narratives constitute a form of othering that threatens professional practice at a time when the professionalisation of librarianship is being drawn into question. This article represents the second in a research programme that interrogates the epistemological premises and discourses of information literacy within higher education.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok Chopra ◽  
Eman Zabalawi ◽  
Anita Rani Chopra

Author(s):  
Fathimath Mumthaz

Objective - Mobile learning had widely impacted higher education, providing technology enabled educational opportunities to the mobile-first learners of the millennium, anytime, anywhere. The adoption of mobile technology rapidly increased among higher education institutions of Maldives, changing the psychological perception of distance learners who were located in different atolls of the country. Methodology/Technique - This paper was developed to explore psychological readiness of institutional distance learning students to adopt mobile learning in Maldives. Using quantitative approach, the research was conducted among the distance learners from three key higher education institutions of Maldives. Contributing to the e- questionnaire, three hundred and forty-three (n=340) students expressed their psychological readiness to adopt mobile learning in Maldives. Data collected using mobile technology was analysed using the analysis summary retrieved from Google forms and SPSS. Finding - The analysis revealed that majority of the students of Maldives higher education institutions were acquainted and psychologically ready to adopt mobile learning as a convenient mode of delivery. Novelty - Thereby, it can be said that students were willing to welcome mobile learning enhanced by mobile technology and were psychologically ready to adopt the emerging shift in the paradigm. Type of Paper - Empirical. Keywords: Mobile learning, psychological readiness, paradigm shift, higher education institutions, Maldives JEL Classification: I21, I23


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