Research on the Paths of Cultivating College Students' Information Literacy

DOI

10.2991/msie-16.2016.32How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Higher education; College students; information literacy; information literacy training strategy.

Abstract

Information literacy has become a basic and essential literacy for modern people living in information society to adapt to the development of information society. In this paper, the theoretical analysis and empirical research methods are used to study the development of College Students' information literacy. In this paper, the self-made questionnaire of university students' information literacy is used, 400 students from 4 universities in Heilongjiang are selected as the research object. Analyze the factors for information literacy of College students, and get three dimensions of university students' information literacy: information ability, information consciousness, information idea and ethics. Research findings show that College students information literacy has an obvious difference in gender, grade, students, having a computer or not and having published articles or not; parts of College students are characterized by lack of information ability, weak information consciousness, weak information concept and information ethics. The questionnaire of College students' information literacy training is applied. Select 201 universities students as the research object, using excel to analyze College and university students' information literacy training situation. It is concluded that: the cultivation of information literacy didn't be attached enough importance by relevant departments, informatization construction and multimedia teaching has not been paid enough attention, information literacy training curriculum is not ideal, and the College teachers lack information literacy. For solving the problem, this paper proposes the method of focusing on improving the level of information literacy of teachers in Colleges and universities, reforming information literacy curriculum, and constructing the new teaching mode.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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