Assessing the Impact of Digital Information Literacy Workshop among Open University Malaysia Postgraduate Learners

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10.2991/978-94-6463-290-3_9How to use a DOI?

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Digital Information Literacy Skills; Self-assessment; SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy Core Model for Higher Education; Motivation; Attitude

Abstract

The Open University Malaysia Digital Library promotes digital information literacy skills among its learners by organizing frequent workshops. The aim of the workshop is to improve learners’ digital information literacy skills. This paper presents the findings from the investigation on the impact of digital information literacy skills workshops especially on THE intrinsic motivation and attitude of the postgraduate learners. The objectives are three-folds: (i) to determine the level of information literacy skills in term of searching and retrieving information among postgraduate learners; (ii) to measure correlations between level of information literacy skills and motivation; and (iii) to measure correlations between level of information literacy skills and attitudes. The ability to search and retrieve (gather) information is one of the Seven Pillars of Information Literacy Core Model for Higher Education developed by SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries). The three dimensions were measured using an instrument that were adapted using existing tools. The target respondents were postgraduate learners who had participated in the workshops. The data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 2.90. Findings from this study shows that there was a high impact of digital information literacy workshop on the searching and retrieving skills of the participants. The study also showed that the effectiveness of the workshop is not influenced by neither the learners’ intrinsically motivation nor their attitude.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shahril Effendi Ibrahim
AU  - Thirumeni T. Subramaniam
AU  - Md Rosli Ismail
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/09
TI  - Assessing the Impact of Digital Information Literacy Workshop among Open University Malaysia Postgraduate Learners
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Open Society Conference (OSC 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 96
EP  - 106
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-290-3_9
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-290-3_9
ID  - Ibrahim2023
ER  -