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Information Literacy In Adult Education

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A student has to learn about proper kinds of resources, how to select the right sources for different tasks, and needs to develop the ability to understand issues of accessibility, such as cost and location, and who to approach for assistance if there is the need be. Information literacy should therefore confer the ability to compare, evaluate and extract information from different sources, and to select accurate and reliable information sources. Information literacy helps the student to develop competence in constructing strategies for locating and assessing information. This skill will include the proper articulation of information need, matching needs against resources, basic use of information communication technologies, search strategies, …show more content…

(2001) argued that IL needs are to be integrated in the course. Similarly, Hiscock and Marriott (2003) concluded in their study that integrating IL and lifelong learning skills into the curriculum is a powerful way of encouraging the students to develop these skills. According to Yang (2009), one major recent trend is the move to online delivery of IL education, especially through course management systems or virtual learning environments. Another is the shift of focus towards more strategic approaches, aiming to move the debate to the level of the institution as a whole (Bruce, 2002; Johnston and Webber, 2003). The study of Corrall (2007) had it that IL teaching is embedded within 75 per cent of the undergraduate and postgraduate taught course curricula and the aim is to achieve 100 per cent integration in UK …show more content…

He recommended that an academic library should make its users aware of the resources and services that are offered, where to find them, and how to exploit what is available. In Ghana, the integration of IL course into the mainstream curriculum has been by a few institutions, notably the University of Cape Coast, University of Development Studies and Ashesi University College whiles the rest are yet to integrate the course into the mainstream curriculum, largely due to the aforementioned challenges. However, IL course is only giving to first year students. The university of Cape Coast combines the guided tour and the lectured method of teaching in its information literacy program. Owusu-Ansah (2004) had it that lack of National Policy on literacy has accounted for this low enrollment of the program into the academic

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