Information Literacy Toolkit

Description: Each section of this toolkit has suggestions for optional activities to introduce elements of information literacy. These are intended to complement any instructions provided in the course materials, and can be adapted to suit your course. They are designed to be quick, both for you to plan and for your students to do. Each section lists the learning outcomes your students achieve by using the material provided. You might also like to try out some of the activities yourself. You can pick and choose material from this toolkit according to the level of skills of your students, the level of the course or the kinds of information literacy activities the course demands. Much of the material is aimed at students working in an online environment, but we recognise that some courses do not require students to use computers as part of their course, and that this may be the case with some courses for some time to come. So you should decide which activities are relevant, according to the requirements of the course, computer access, skills, motivation, time, confidence and needs of your students. Where we have suggested resources for you to use with your students, for example those on the Open University Library website, links will open in new browser windows. When you have finished looking at the site in the new window, close the browser window to return to the rest of the toolkit. The 'Information Literacy Toolkit' logo at the top left hand side of the page will always take you back to the opening page of the toolkit.