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Direct linkKow Kwan Yee; Tan Huey Shyh – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2024
Media and Information Literacy (MIL) education can combat online misinformation by enhancing users' fact-checking skills. This action research study designed and implemented a problem-based learning MIL project for journalism undergraduates. The objectives are (a) to design a MIL project by using a problem-based learning methodology; (b) to…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Media Literacy, Information Literacy, Misinformation
Leibiger, Carol A. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2011
Googlitis, the overreliance on search engines for research and the resulting development of poor searching skills, is a recognized problem among today's students. Google is not an effective research tool because, in addition to encouraging keyword searching at the expense of more powerful subject searching, it only accesses the Surface Web and is…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Information Literacy, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Problem Based Learning
Download full textHiggs, Bettie, Ed.; Kilcommins, Shane, Ed.; Ryan, Tony, Ed. – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2010
In this volume the authors document examples of programmes/courses/activities that are designed intentionally to build students' capacity to be integrative thinkers and learners. In doing so they try to analyse and name the learning that is taking place, and so make it visible to the reader. The work is intended as a resource for all those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Curriculum Design, Holistic Approach
Macklin, Alexis Smith – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2008
This study explored the use of a problem-based learning (PBL) approach for teaching information and communication technology (ICT) skills to first-year students. Two questions were posed. The first addressed the ICT skill needs of 20 students enrolled in a first-year composition course. The second focused on the use of PBL to facilitate ICT skill…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Problem Based Learning, Prior Learning, Information Retrieval
Milbury, Peter; Silva, Brett – MultiMedia Schools, 1998
Describes a teaching unit composed of two Web-based activities which draw upon authentic, primary sources available on the Library of Congress American Memory Web site (http://memory.loc.gov). Discusses the problem-based learning framework, the "prompt," links to selected information sources, and testing the unit. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking, Educational Resources, Information Literacy
Baptista Nunes, Miguel, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Lisbon, Portugal July 15-19, 2014). The e-Learning 2014 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
