Teaching Media and Information Literacy to Postgraduate Researchers

Abstract This paper reports on a project funded by the HEA-ICS, which sought to create an open educational resource to help develop media and information literacy skills in postgraduate research students. The resource uses a distinctive and holistic approach to the teaching of these subjects, which brings together Bruce et al’s ‘Six Frames of Information Literacy’ model (2007), Egan’s division of literacy into conventional, emergent and comprehensive (1990), and Whitworth’s objective, subjective and intersubjective domains of value (2009b). The paper describes the structure and methods of the course, and some results from the summer 2010 evaluation of the draft version. It explains how this evaluation has resulted in the final version of the materials which are in place on http://madigitaltechnologies.wordpress.com/infoliteracy.