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Linköping University Information Literacy
Research Centre Christina Brage,
brage_at_bibl.liu.se Agneta Lantz, agnla_at_bibl.liu.se
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• The Information Society
• increased volume of information
• changes in ICT
• changing communication patterns

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• Librarians
• analyse the surrounding environment
• create sustainable learning environments
• foster students competences
• emphasize concepts
• from teaching to learning
• real stories, real contexts

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Case-Based Learning active and situated learning
connection between the curriculum and
real-world demands learning-by-doing approach
variety of options
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• Students
• take responsibility for their learning
• a capacity to work with a large collection
• of information
• an effective selection and organisation of
• information
• integrate and apply
• an ability to communicate clearly
• meta-cognitive strategies to compel orderly,
• systematic and imaginative forms of inquiry

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Civic and Public Information The Citizen in the
Information Society, 10 credits (10 weeks
fulltime, 40h/week) literacy is a prerequisite
for participative citizenship how to integrate
and understand information how to use it
selectively foster critical thinking skills
analyze information independently investigate
own beliefs and assumptions respond to a
diversity of views in appropriate ways
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The course syllabus Theories of communication
Civic communication in a democratic society.
Past and present Information literacy
theories Information behaviour theories
Information seeking strategies Information
design Risk communication Own production of
civic information Literature seminar Visual
communication Theories of democracy
e-democracy Media literacy Practical writing
and publishing
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Health Promoting Organizations, 20credits (20
weeks fulltime, 40 h/week)

• A health promoting society highlights the
  importance of enabling people to exert control
  over the determinants of health and thereby
  improve their health
• The ability to search for, find and adequately
  understand and use health-related information is
  critical in the modern information society
• Information Literacy is the key to evidence-based
  action

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The critical issues of Information Literacy and
Health Literacy

• Information Literacy is a cornerstone of the
  Health Promoting Society
• Information Literacy represents a viable,
  strategic response to democracy and inaquity in
  society in the same way as Health Literacy
  addresses the inequity in health
• Health Literacy involves an individuals ability
  to read, comprehend, and act on medical or health
  information
• Health Literacy is clearly influenced by the
  level of Information Literacy
• Information Literacy is a cornerstone of
  effective health promotion policies and practices
  at all levels

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Health Promoting Organizations Curriculum

• Information Literacy and Learning
• Perspectives of Healthy Organizations
• Organizations in an Organizational and
  Communication Theory Perspective Research
  Methods and Strategies for Health Promotion and
  Change
• Theoretical and Empirical Study of Health
  Promoting Organizations

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Information Literacy

• has broad implications for the individual, the
  educational system and society
• allows individuals to be flexible thinkers and
  lifelong learners who will succeed in the
  information age
• a synergism between the ability to manage
  information and the complex thinking processes
  involved in doing research

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Applied Information Literacy (Lantz Brage,
2006)
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• Lantz, A. C. Brage (2006), Lantz, A. C.
  Brage, (2006), Towards a Learning Society
  Exploring the Challenge of Applied Information
  Literacy through Reality-Based Scenarios, ITALICS
  Journal (Innovation in Teaching and Learning
  Information and Computer Science),5,1,
  http//www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/paperindex.
  htm, http//www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol5-1
  /pdf/LantzBrage20final.pdf.

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Towards a Model of Applied Information Literacy