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ECIL 2021: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era pp 427–438Cite as

Student Perception of Online Information Literacy Training Through a Massive Open Online Course

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This study aims to examine how students perceive online Information Literacy (IL) training through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), based on semi-structured interviews of University of Hildesheim students who participated in the Information Literacy Online (ILO) MOOC. The results show that students especially valued content on information searching and scientific writing. Contents on how to deal with social media were perceived as less relevant and too basic. Regarding the instructional design of the MOOC, the students especially valued parts where a common persona was introduced whose information problems defined the content and examples. From a general perspective the students perceived IL as valuable for their studies, but less for their daily life or future job. The approach of learning through a MOOC was especially valued for being flexible in terms of place and time.

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  1. Department of Information Science and Natural Language Processing, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

    Fedra Kuttkat & Thomas Mandl

  2. Department of Corporate Leadership and Entrepreneurship, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Stefan Dreisiebner

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Denis Kos

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Kuttkat, F., Mandl, T., Dreisiebner, S. (2022). Student Perception of Online Information Literacy Training Through a Massive Open Online Course. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Ünal, Y., Boustany, J., Kos, D. (eds) Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. ECIL 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1533. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_36

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