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A Study on the Efficient Management of Liberal Education for Improving Computer Literacy

  • Koo, GeumSeo;Sim, Gab-Sig
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.143-149
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we propose efficient management method of liberal education for improving computer literacy. We analyzed the actual conditions and factors affecting education and reflected the analysis results in education. The subject of the study is 'Practice Excel', and tested achievement based on computer literacy. In order to evaluate objectively, we conducted CBT(Computer Based Test) based on Computer Specialist in Spreadsheet & Database Level-2. Analysis of the questionnaire included the use of the popular statistical program, IBM SPSS 24 trial, and frequency, ANOVA, t-test, crossover analysis, and correlation. Evaluation results, An important factor influencing educational performance was active participation. It also proved to be very helpful for understanding excel functions & expression.

The Effects of Online User Instruction on Information Literacy Ability: Suggestions for COVID-19 Era (코로나 시대의 온라인 도서관 이용교육이 정보활용능력에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Yeon Kyeong;Yi, Yong Jeong
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.52 no.3
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    • pp.267-285
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    • 2021
  • Due to COVID-19, user instruction programs could not be conducted face-to-face, and the sessions have been moved online. The present study attempted to investigate how online user instruction influences the information literacy ability of college students. The study randomly selected college students (N=50) who completed online user instruction sessions and college college students (N=50) who did not complete them among freshment who went to to college in 2020 to measure their information literacy abilities. For this study, a tool for measuring information literacy abilities was developed by referring to several previous studies. The measurement results were analyzed by the independent samples t-test, and significant differences were found between students who completed online user instruction sessions and those who did not. The findings of the study have confirmed that it is effective in enhancing library users' information literacy abilities to provide user instruction online under the COVID-19 situation, and even in post-COVID 19 times, which helps them appropriately utilize the characteristics of digital libraries. The information literacy measurement tool used in the present study was developed to evaluate online information literacy, and thus contributed to the extension of the literature of digital information literacy and user instruction. The present study provided practical implications for how academic libraries will promote information services to cope with environmental changes in which contact-free (untact) services are obliged.

A Study on the Information Literacy Program in University Library (대학(大學) 도서관(圖書館)에서의 정보능력(情報能力) 교육을 위한 연구)

  • Ahn, Mi-Sun
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 1994
  • Information Literacy Program is a new important theme in librarianship, especially in university library. The purpose of this study is to give an overview of information literacy program, its meaning, and its importance to information society. This study also provides a brief description of the program being developed at university libraries in America and Korea.

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Effects of Polar Literacy Education Program for Elementary and Middle School Students (초·중학생 대상 극지 소양 교육 프로그램의 효과)

  • Sueim Chung;Donghee Shin
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.209-223
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    • 2023
  • This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a polar literacy education program for elementary and middle school students, and to derive implications for new education to respond to climate change. We developed modular education programs based on the seven principles of polar literacy established by the Polar-ICE team. We divided them into two courses, one emphasizing science concepts and another emphasizing humanities and sociological issues. We then selected and structured detailed programs suitable for the two courses. These two courses were applied to 26 elementary and middle school students for approximately 69 hours in a Saturday science class hosted by the Department of Science Education at a university in Seoul. The 26 students were divided into three groups. Two groups completed the science education program for polar literacy and a humanities and social studies education program for polar literacy, respectively. The third group, the control group, received general science education unrelated to polar literacy. Before and after running the programs, all three groups responded to a polar literacy test and questionnaires that used vocabulary and presented scenes associated with polar regions. The test results were expressed using Wilcoxon signed ranks, which is a non-parametric test method, and improvements made upon completion of the program were analyzed. From a cognitive aspect, all three groups showed improvement after completing the program in the knowledge area; however, the experimental groups showed a greater degree of improvement than the control group, and there was a clear difference in the contents or materials explicitly covered. From an affective aspect, the difference between before and after the program was minor, but the group that focused on humanities and social issues showed a statistically significant improvement. Regarding changes in polar imagery, the two experimental groups tended to diverge from monotonous images to more diverse images compared to the control group. Based on the above results, we suggested methods to increase the effectiveness of polar literacy education programs, the importance of polar literacy as appropriate material for scientific thinking and earth system education, measures to improve attitudes related to the polar region, and the need to link to school curriculums.

A Study on the Acceptance of Information Literacy Instruction for School Libraries in Korea (학교도서관 중심의 정보활용능력 교육 수용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Yeon-Rye;Hong Hyun-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.3-32
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    • 2006
  • This paper examined the information literacy which is the concrete purpose of the ICT using education which appeared in order to elevate the effects of education in school after the introduction of the 7th educational curriculum. Based on TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) that provides useful theoretical foundations for analyzing the factors influencing acceptance and diffusion of IT, it determined the factors influencing the process of accepting the information literacy instruction as follows: perceived usefulness; perceived ease of use; attitude; effects of the information literacy instruction; teachers' innovation; school library relevance; school librarians' support; and the self-efficacy. This paper confirmed the influences of these factors on the process of accepting the information literacy through empirical study. Through this study, it intended to suggest the ways to activate of the information literacy instruction.

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Study on the Scope and Sequence of Information Literacy Instruction in School Library (학교도서관 정보활용교육의 범위와 계열 설정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Byeong-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.45-74
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    • 2005
  • The study has developed the scope and sequence of information literacy instruction's curriculum for integration strategies of traditional reading education, library use education and information literacy. For this purpose, this study compares and analyze the scope and sequence of reading education, library use education and information literacy instruction's curriculum in Korea, American and Japan. Basing on the comparative result, it proposed the scope and sequence of information literacy instruction's curriculum in Korea. The scope and sequence which it proposes based on the skill and process of information literacy model, it includes contents of traditional reading education, library use education. Also, supposed scope take in all format of information media, the process and strategies of information use, library and information system. the supposed sequence divided into elementary school(1-3), elementary school(1-4), middle school(1-3), high school(1-3)

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A Study on the Operation of Information Literacy Subjects as a General Education: A Case of a D University in Seoul (정보활용능력 일반교양과목 운영에 관한 연구 - 서울 D대학 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Kwanghwi;Han, Mahnsoung
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.119-138
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    • 2020
  • This study reports a case where some university libraries played a major role in opening and educating information literacy Instruction as a general liberal arts course. The librarian of the university library, who was also the speaker of this study, participated in the overall operation, including the conducting of two classes lectures during the second semester as a professor. It also analyzed a survey of 43 students from 27 departments in the first semester of 2019 and 44 from 25 departments in the second semester to assess the pre- and post-education effects on the courses. As a result, statistically significant values were obtained in both semesters. This study, which aimed at providing materials for librarians at university libraries raises the need for liberal arts education that integrates information and media literacy, is expected to provide various implications for improving information literacy instruction programs in the future.

An Analysis of Elements of the Information Literacy Process within Common Inquiry Tasks of Textbooks in Korean Middle Schools Social Studies (중학교 「사회」 교과서의 공통 탐구 과제에 포함된 정보활용과정 요소 분석)

  • Song, Gi-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.49 no.3
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    • pp.233-252
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze inquiry tasks of textbooks in middle schools social studies under the information literacy process and find out teacher librarians' educational information service on the side of information literacy education. Results of the analysis show that middle school students who carry out the inquiry tasks of social studies should select sources, seek its' related information and create their products through writing reports or presentation. Compared with information literacy process of the "Library and Information Skills", the First step of task definition and figuring out information needs and the Third step of representation of information are being implemented. For this reason, teacher librarian could reduce social studies teachers' burden of class and promote students' inquiry activities by teaching skills of suitable materials seeking strategies for solving their task, understanding and synthesizing the information and evaluating their process and result. Therefore, it is necessary to activate collaborative teaching between the teacher librarian and the social studies teacher based on the information literacy.

An Exploratory Study on the Establishment and Provision of Universal Literacy for Sustainable Development in the Era of Fake News (가짜뉴스의 시대, 지속가능한 발전을 위한 보편적 리터러시의 구축 및 제공에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Mee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.85-106
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the concept and definition of fake news focusing on misinformation/false information and is to examine the ways in which our society can respond to the distortion of social reality and damage to democracy caused by information distortion such as fake news. To do this, the concept of fake news was examined based on the level of facticity and intention to device, and our social environment in which fake news was created and spread was examined from the perspective of datafication. In this environment, the library community, which plays a pivotal role in human access to and use of information, argued that it should strive to establish and provide universal literacy education in order to realize the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 agenda. The core of universal literacy education is to understand the society by investigating and analyzing data communication types according to the degree of datafication and the political, economic, social, and cultural background of society. For this reason, it was concluded that universal literacy should be implemented flexibly according to the degree of datafiation and users of each society.

A Study on the Learning-Instruction Model for Information Literacy for College Students (대학생의 정보활용능력 교수학습모형 개발에 관한 기초연구)

  • Kim, Sung-Eun;Lee, Myeong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.177-200
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    • 2006
  • This research has been done to develope a curricular model for the Information Literacy Course as one of liberal arts courses in Korean universities. This curricular model had resulted from investigating the standards and models for Information Literacy at the 4 standards(ACRL in USA, CAUL in Australia ANZILL in Australia and New Zealand, and SCONUL in the United Kingdom), 5 syllabi for Information Literacy used by 5 American universities and 33 syllabi by 23 Korean universities. On the basis of these educational results of the Information Literacy syllabi, a learning-instruction model has come into being for the Information Literacy Course that includes 7 core areas : information sources, information need, information access. information analysis, information management, information transfer and communication, and information ethics.