Adult learners information literacy and technological skills within university education
Author | Affiliation | |
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Mykolo Romerio universitetas | LT | |
LT |
Date |
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2008 |
Higher education is changing to serve the needs of 21st century called the information age where the building of the knowledge society in the highest priority. Universities are becoming mass; therefore their readiness to train competent citizens goes in line with contenporary challenges caused by new technologies, abundance of information recources that adult learners face in learning process. These issues require investigating the level of students‘ competence with a special focus on their technological capacity necessary to cope with a great variety of information search locations, its resources and formats. The paper presents reseach findings on students‘ information literacy, ITC skills and their attitude towards the Internet as an information loaction. [...].