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UNICA Seminar 2006 Breakout Groups. Group 2, Helsinki 18.5.2006. Kaisa Sinikara, Chair Anne Lehto, Rapporteur Hélène Chaudoreille Giulia Corvino Kris Dejonckheere Antonio Fantoni Iveta Gudakovska. Nathalie Janz Agata Kulesza Teodora Oker-Blom Jelka Petrakj Liisa Savolainen
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UNICA Seminar 2006 Breakout Groups Group 2, Helsinki 18.5.2006 18.5.2006 UNICA
Kaisa Sinikara, Chair Anne Lehto, Rapporteur Hélène Chaudoreille Giulia Corvino Kris Dejonckheere Antonio Fantoni Iveta Gudakovska Nathalie Janz Agata Kulesza Teodora Oker-Blom Jelka Petrakj Liisa Savolainen Kaija Sipilä Jan Skrha Francoise Vandooren Group 2 18.5.2006 UNICA
Discussion Themes… • How can the European leading universities collaborate in promoting information literacy? 18.5.2006 UNICA
Discussion Themes… • Would it be possible to create joint recommendations or standards and guidelines for information literacy assurance in the European higher education area? 18.5.2006 UNICA
Discussion Themes… • Does there need to be an agreed levels of skills competency for students, or for training programmes run by libraries who teach information and IT skills? 18.5.2006 UNICA
2. Joint recommendations? • To define the concept • Discussion without coming to practical issues • Why we need IL in the universities? • More competent students • Higher quality education • Education is a public affair in the same way as medicine 18.5.2006 UNICA
Joint recommendations? • Basis can be the same in different countries and in different disciplines • Finland • more and more research oriented teaching • Students more responsible for their learning • Information Society • Discussion with teachers: • ACRL’s Standards -> guidelines/framework • Spain • Practical issues • Wikipedia compared with traditional sources 18.5.2006 UNICA
Joint recommendations? • Definitions • Framework • Best Practices 18.5.2006 UNICA
1. Collaboration of the EU leading universities to promote IL • It doesn’t lead anywhere if the teachers are not involved • Curiosity, an ability to solve new problems • Could we involve Associations of University Teachers, SCONUL etc. osmosis 18.5.2006 UNICA
3. Agreed level of skills competency? • General/specific level of information literacy • Different levels, Master, PhD • Cooperation between earlier levels of education • Level 0 • Children at 13 -17 years • Teachers of secondary schools • Level 3 • Research in Humanities • Continuing process 18.5.2006 UNICA