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INFORMATION LITERACY STRATEGY: A CASE STUDY OF THE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT AT THE U.S. COAST GUARD ACADEMY
Alina M. Zapalska
; U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London
Nicholas Zieser
Michael McCarty
Tyler Kelley
Kimberly C. Young-McLear
Michael S. Glinski
Luke Weinstein
Abstract
The challenge of academic research is not to find information but to select, organize, and evaluate the validity and reliability of the information available. The paper presents the Information Literacy (IL) strategy that has been developed for the advancement of IL skills in an undergraduate program in the Management Department at the USCG Academy. The authors demonstrate IL strategies within the coursework they teach and how an integrated IL strategy responds to educational IL standards and requirements. The paper lists the IL exercises that were developed and used in the following courses: Macroeconomics Principles (freshman level); Organizational Behavior and Leadership (sophomore level); Introduction to Business (sophomore level); Marketing (junior level); and Management Information Systems (junior level). Each course provided within Management major serves as a model for the development of the IL skills that are structured to develop the IL skills sequentially from freshman to senior year in an undergraduate program.
Keywords
Information literacy competency; strategy; exercises; management education
Hrčak ID:
170950
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2016.
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