[Sigiii-l] Fwd.: UNESCO-SALIS, India, e-Learning Portal for Awareness Raising on Information Literacy

[M.J. Menou]

UNESCO-SALIS e-Learning Portal for Awareness Raising on Information Literacy
The Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science 
(SALIS), India, in collaboration with UNESCO, has just launched a 
six-month project entitled Interactive E-Learning Portal on Information 
Literacy Competency Development Skills for South Asia.
	
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UNESCO Office in New Delhi
25-05-2007 12:00

The project aims to raise awareness and enhance information literacy 
competency skills of laymen as well as information professionals and 
educators. Its objectives are fully in line with UNESCO’s mandate to 
bridge the digital divide and UNESCO’s vision of Knowledge Societies.

This project has its genesis in recommendations of a UNESCO supported 
Workshop on Information Literacy Competency Development for Information 
Professionals and Special Educators organized last November by SALIS in 
Chennai, India, and subsequent information literacy sensitization 
workshops held in Delhi and Nagpur. Following a documentation period, it 
is now set to begin in the third week of May 2007.

The e-learning portal will cover a number of self-learning modules, such as:

     * Information Literacy,
     * Information Literacy Models and Standards,
     * Information Communication Technology (ICT),
     * Information Services for the Disabled People,
     * Information Literacy Assessment,
     * Freedom of Information/Right to Information,
     * Lifelong Learning and Development of Life Skills,
     * Sample Information Literacy Programmes for Library and Community 
Information Centre Users.

The portal will be developed using Moodle Open Source software, an 
internationally renowned Courseware Management System (CMS) or Virtual 
Learning Environment (VLE).

On completion of the project, the information professionals, educators 
and other persons may participate in the ensuing online course to 
enhance information literacy skills based on a set of interactive 
activities, such as assignments, self-check exercises, multiple-choice 
questions, and quizzes.


UNESCO-SALIS workshop to build capacity of educators for the disabled
Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Sciences (SALIS)