Information Literacy of University Students and Its Improvement
by a Campus-Wide Course: A Comparison of Czech Private and
Public University

D 2022

Information Literacy of University Students and Its Improvement by a Campus-Wide Course: A Comparison of Czech Private and Public University

ZADRAŽILOVÁ, Iva and Pavla VIZVÁRY

Basic information

Original name

Information Literacy of University Students and Its Improvement by a Campus-Wide Course: A Comparison of Czech Private and Public University

Authors

ZADRAŽILOVÁ, Iva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Pavla VIZVÁRY (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Cham, European Conference on Information Literacy: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era, p. 354-363, 10 pp. 2022

Publisher

Springer

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Proceedings paper

Field of Study

50300 5.3 Education

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

URL

Organization unit

AMBIS University

ISBN

978-3-030-99884-4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_30

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85128722014

Keywords in English

Blended learning; E-learning; Information literacy; Information literacy education; Private university; Research

Abstract

In the original language

Information literacy is supposed to be an integral part of higher education. This paper presents research on students’ information literacy skills and their improvement after completing a course at a private university Ambis, compared to a similar survey conducted at public Masaryk University. Unlike the latter, Ambis students’ self-evaluation showed only a slight improvement in the competencies examined, most likely due to their prior practical experience. The objective evaluation revealed even more substantial differences between the two universities. While Ambis students displayed a higher starting level of information literacy in the pretest, for their MU counterparts, posttests revealed statistically significant improvements after finishing the course. Despite the potential of massive online courses, the contradictory outcomes of the present research are affected by the very massification of higher education and the related insufficient tutor staffing of the information literacy course.

Cite

ZADRAŽILOVÁ, Iva and Pavla VIZVÁRY. Information Literacy of University Students and Its Improvement by a Campus-Wide Course: A Comparison of Czech Private and Public University. Online. In Serap Kurbanoğlu, Sonja Špiranec, Yurdagül Ünal, Joumana Boustany, Denis Kos. European Conference on Information Literacy: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. Cham: Springer, 2022, p. 354-363. ISBN 978-3-030-99884-4. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_30.

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ZADRAŽILOVÁ, Iva and Pavla VIZVÁRY. Information Literacy of University Students and Its Improvement by a Campus-Wide Course: A Comparison of Czech Private and Public University. Online. In Serap Kurbanoğlu, Sonja Špiranec, Yurdagül Ünal, Joumana Boustany, Denis Kos. \textit{European Conference on Information Literacy: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era}. Cham: Springer, 2022, p.~354-363. ISBN~978-3-030-99884-4. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1\_{}30.

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