Accrediting information literacy

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Accrediting information literacy

• Hilary Johnson
• Chair, SCONUL Advisory Committee on Information
  Literacy

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Kinds of accreditation

• Providers
• Service
• Educational
• Link to quality standards
• Individuals
• Personal development
• Professional or career development
• Linked to competencies

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Who accredits?

• Professional bodies (e.g.RCN, CILIP)
• Qualifications bodies, national, regional (QCA)
  or international (ECS)
• Special interest groups (ILTHE)
• Quality watchdogs (e.g. Helicon, QAA)

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Information literacy

• Path to accreditation?
• Definition
• Recognition
• Sponsorship- whose remit?
• Key skill?
• ICT?
• E-literacy?
• Embed or bolt-on?

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Dimensions

• Professional
• Professional Diploma in IL?
• Educational
• B.A Information Literacy?
• Specialist
• National Occupational Standards
• Informal (industry standard)

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• Professional
• Educational
• Specialist
• Private
• Personal

• Recognised Practitioner?
• B.A Info Lit?
• National Occupational Standards?
• Microsoft
• ILTHE

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Library profession?

• U.S Australia Institutes for IL immersion
  programmes
• International - IFLA
• SCONUL
• 7 Pillars model
• Developing MOSAIC (10 credit module, level 1 (HE)
• Where is CILIP?

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Educational

• Key skills
• SFEU
• Wolverhampton (Open College)
• Open University U120 Mosaic

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Health

• NHS/HE Forum
• National Occupational Standards for Health
  Informatics
• NHSU?

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What about the ?

• Other professionals
• Patients
• Policy makers

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International

• Prague Declaration
• United Nations
• International Information Literacy Certificate
  (IFLA, Berlin, August 2003)

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Is ECDL a model?

• Very superficial
• Focus on skills not knowledge or understanding
• Not contextual
• Some overlap (databases)
• Wide recognition
• Has some role as a threshold level?