Design of an ADDIE-inspired information literacy online course: an experience in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Abstract

The development of competences in the education of our students is an activity which universities should not evade or ignore. An education such as we have in mind must go with solid bases in the use of new technologies for utilizing and recovering information, which may allow our students to acquire the capacities and skills that make possible to tell the difference between common commercial information and arbitrated broad context academic information. Informational literacy and informatical literacy constitute nowadays two basic elements for an integral education of our students as the will both allow them to complete their professional and personal competences which are necessary for their professional development and their life projects. In our universities and information centers we must focus on developing, at every stage of the process of education, the required skills that may allow us to take complete advantage of the information resources of our institutions along with those that are generously offered in Internet. If we do so, we will enrich the integral academic professional background of our students. In order to achieve this, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) offers its academic staff a full range of printed and digital information necessary to consolidate the academic and research programs of the university. The quantity and diversity of these resources is such that it is a must to strengthen the skills of our students in the use of information so that this can be used optimally. In this context, an online course for developing competences and skills when looking for and locating information was designed at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlan. It follows the ADDIE model for distant education, so it implies the analysis, design, development, implantation and evaluation of academic resources which will allow us to orientate our students in the use and management of digital information, assimilating it in their academic formation and incorporating it to their own knowledge data base.