Virtualidad y educación: una perspectiva desde la documentación hacia la sociedad del conocimiento

Actas de las Segundas Jornadas Imagen, Cultura y Tecnología celebradas entre el 1 y el 3 de julio de 2003 en la Universidad Carlos III de MadridPublicad

A tool for assesing multiliteracy in higher educacation

This study describes the premises underlying Voremetur, a project conducted in the context of higher educa-tion. It hypothesises the need to support a competence education method adapted to new educational formulas (from e-to m-learning), new educational challenges (e-science, big data) and the convergent competences now characterised as info-communication literacy, which has favoured the transition from edu-communication to multiliteracy. Such competences should be organised into competence programmes, where the assessment of the beneficial results for learners and the university should be included as an essential element. The article discusses an assessment model for new literacies, including its conceptual framework, ideal evaluation tools and conversion into an ad hoc questionnaire. Lastly, the paper describes model application to a target group and analyses the results most relevant to information behaviour

A taxonomic proposal for multiliteracies and their competences

The aim of this study is to analyze information and communication competences and their alphabets, both of which are necessary for effective knowledge-based content management. The evolution of the associated specialties or techniques, i.e., literacies, which have emerged to address this task more effectively are considered. The hypothesis that a taxonomic model can be used to order and coordinate literacies, in combination with an application metamodel within the framework of the Voremetur research project, was investigated. The methodology used to complete this analysis adopts an evolutionary approach comprising: (1) a first divergent phase describing the era of literacies and multiple literacies, in which field-specific competences and tools prevail; (2) a second convergent phase of information and digital literacy, whose associated competences become the targets of knowledge; and (3) a third divergent phase, based on multiliteracies, as a consequence of Big Data and its effects, to address which data literacy, together with "digital competences" emerged as new and complex ways of processing web content. Based on this premise, the classifications introduced by Bawden, Stordy, Secker & Coonan, and Mackey & Jacobson are proposed as a taxonomic model, using the metamodel definition from the Voremetur project. This results in the proposal of a multiliteracy including implementations that range from visual literacy and new media literacy, strategies for the selection of keywords as taxonomic labels, semantic control to define taxonomic categories, to a metamodel definition based on the categories obtained in the taxonomy. The development of the metamodel is presented through a program oriented at higher education within the framework of academic literacy, as a means for incorporation into curricula, including a definition of its paradigmatic and conceptual framework, the factors relevant to its programming and instructional design, educommunication as a didactic methodology approach, and digital educational objects as didactic materials, followed by an appropriate evaluation.This article is a result of the project "Vocabularies for a Network of Media Art Archives and Collections and its effects: Metaliteracy and Knowledge Tourism" (HAR2016-75949-C2-1-R) funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain

Analysis of information use in agricultural science PhD theses at Central University of Venezuela

Purpose – To analyze information use in agricultural science PhD theses submitted between 1986 and 2002 in the Faculty of Agronomy, Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Design/methodology/approach – The source of information was the UCV Faculty of Agronomy, Library's database, “Tesis”. The unidimensional production and use indicators analyzed included: scientific production, reference density, self-citations, document contemporaneousness and type of documents cited, reference scattering and accessibility of the journals cited. Findings – The analysis of the data obtained from 4,646 bibliographic references in 42 agricultural science PhD theses provides insight into information use in a Venezuelan agricultural science community. The mean number of references per thesis found was 113?±?21. The number of women earning a PhD in agriculture was observed to grow. The percentage of self-citations varied widely. The half-life was 11 years and the Price's Index 22 per cent. According to the distribution by document type, most of the publications cited were articles in journals, while references to technical standards and internet publications were rare. UCV Faculty of Agronomy PhD students tended to seek information primarily in the Anglo Saxon literature. The Celestino Bonfanti Library periodicals section met a high proportion (92 per cent) of the demand for journals located in the first and second concentration-scattering zones. Originality/value – This is the only paper on the evaluation of PhD theses in Venezuela. The findings will be useful for education planners in Venezuela and other developing countries.Publicad

La cooperación de la biblioteca escolar y la pública: alfabetización en información, “biblioteca integrada” y el mundo virtual

The stimuli of educative convergence between the school and public libraries are examined, within the framework of the new environments and educational models that the Society of the information is trying, a few stimuli tending to a model of cooperation more effective than till now existing. There is studied, then, the educational convergent process, based on the informative competitions on the electronic discourse, for major efficiency of the collaborative and lifelong learning in formal and non-formal education, in order to reach a convergent educative model, whose engine is the information literacy, phenomenon that transforms the educational role of the libraries, particularly the school and public, who find new ways of cooperation, as he is credited in different actions. Authors analyse, finally, two scenes of this partnership working between school and public libraries: the model joint-use, that is defined, describes its typology and their possibilities in future; the virtual world, Second Life and the MMORPGs, that are described, score their formative applications and their incorporation at libraries.Se analizan los estímulos de convergencia educativa entre las bibliotecas escolares y públicas, en el marco de los nuevos entornos y modelos educativos que está procurando la Sociedad de la información, unos estímulos tendentes a un modelo de cooperación más eficaz que el hasta ahora existente. Se estudia, entonces, el proceso educativo convergente, basado en las competencias informativas sobre el discurso electrónico, para mayor eficacia del aprendizaje permanente y colaborativo en Educación Formal y no Formal propio del e-learning, para llegar a un modelo educativo convergente, cuyo motor es la alfabetización en información, fenómeno que transforma la función educativa de las bibliotecas, particularmente las escolares y públicas, que hallan nuevos modos de cooperación, como se acredita en diferentes acciones. Se analizan, finalmente, dos escenarios de cooperación de bibliotecas escolares y públicas: el modelo jointuse, que se define, se describe su tipología y se apuntan sus posibilidades; el mundo virtual, Second Life y los MMORPGs, que se describen, se apuntan sus aplicaciones formativas y su incorporación a bibliotecas

La cooperación de la biblioteca escolar y la pública: alfabetización en información, “biblioteca integrada” y el mundo virtual = The school and public library cooperation: information literacy, “joint-use” and virtual world

The stimuli of educative convergence between the school and public libraries are examined, within the framework of the new environments and educational models that the Society of the information is trying, a few stimuli tending to a model of cooperation more effective than till now existing. There is studied, then, the educational convergent process, based on the informative competitions on the electronic discourse, for major efficiency of the collaborative and lifelong learning in formal and non-formal education, in order to reach a convergent educative model, whose engine is the information literacy, phenomenon that transforms the educational role of the libraries, particularly the school and public, who find new ways of cooperation, as he is credited in different actions. Authors analyse, finally, two scenes of this partnership working between school and public libraries: the model joint-use, that is defined, describes its typology and their possibilities in future; the virtual world, Second Life and the MMORPGs, that are described, score their formative applications and their incorporation at librarie

La alfabetización en información como dimensión de un nuevo modelo educativo: la innovación docente desde la documentación y los CRAI

One of the most crucial aspects in the analysis of the educational impact of Cyberspace is the relevance of competencies in education and their formative social outreach. It is the fundamental base for the development of information literacy, which is approached in this paper from its conceptual, regulatory and methodological perspective. The educational dimension of information literacy is considered here as a competency in the evaluation of digital learning resources provided with models of its own that will be able to allow students to efficiently understand and generate knowledge from digital reading, hypermedia writing and editing. The impact of information literacy is, then, proved to be efficient by means of appropriate digital resources (learning objects and blogs, among others) in their natural setting, the CRAI (Learning Resources Centers), whose instruments, project and formative trends are also tackled in this paper.Desde el análisis de las repercusiones educativas del Ciberespacio se analiza, como uno de sus elementos, la relevancia de las competencias en Educación y su proyección social formativa, base fundamental para el desarrollo de la alfabetización en información, que es considerada desde su perspectiva conceptual, normativa y metodológica. La dimensión educativa de la alfabetización en información se contempla como una competencia en la evaluación de contenidos digitales, con modelos propios, porque debe tener como efectos en el educando por comprensión eficaz y generación de conocimiento desde la lectura digital, escritura hipermedia y edición. El impacto de la alfabetización en información se hace eficiente por recursos digitales idóneos (objetos de aprendizaje, blogs), en el escenario lógico que es el CRAI, cuyos instrumentos necesarios, proyecto y tendencias formativas se abordan

A taxonomic proposal for multiliteracies and their competences

The aim of this study is to analyze information and communication competences and their alphabets, both of which are necessary for effective knowledge-based content management. The evolution of the associated specialties or techniques, i.e., literacies, which have emerged to address this task more effectively are considered. The hypothesis that a taxonomic model can be used to order and coordinate literacies, in combination with an application metamodel within the framework of the Voremetur research project, was investigated. The methodology used to complete this analysis adopts an evolutionary approach comprising: (1) a first divergent phase describing the era of literacies and multiple literacies, in which field-specific competences and tools prevail; (2) a second convergent phase of information and digital literacy, whose associated competences become the targets of knowledge; and (3) a third divergent phase, based on multiliteracies, as a consequence of Big Data and its effects, to address which data literacy, together with “digital competences,” emerged as new and complex ways of processing web content. Based on this premise, the classifications introduced by Bawden, Stordy, Secker & Coonan, and Mackey & Jacobson are proposed as a taxonomic model, using the metamodel definition from the Voremetur project. This results in the proposal of a multiliteracy including implementations that range from visual literacy and new media literacy, strategies for the selection of keywords as taxonomic labels, semantic control to define taxonomic categories, to a metamodel definition based on the categories obtained in the taxonomy. The development of the metamodel is presented through a program oriented at higher education within the framework of academic literacy, as a means for incorporation into curricula, including a definition of its paradigmatic and conceptual framework, the factors relevant to its programming and instructional design, educommunication as a didactic methodology approach, and digital educational objects as didactic materials, followed by an appropriate evaluation

El documento como imagen: la indización simbólica

Actas de las Primeras Jornadas Imagen, Cultura y Tecnología celebradas del 1 al 5 de julio de 2002 en la Universidad Carlos III de Madri

Competencias en información y en comunicación: desarrollo conceptual a partir de la new media literacy

This analysis begins showing the relevance of content connections in digital and virtual settings. It is based on social network potentialities and its instruments, and the process is based on interaction and communication, and it requires the acquisition of suitable competencies. The cognitive nature of these competencies is based on a comparative analysis with information competencies, and their effect on the new digital gap. The inherent properties of communication competence are addressed based on participative culture, so a personal academic specialty is necessary, New Media Literacy which has principles that are argued using an analysis of actors, language, context, message and channel including their potentialities, and a need to have its own evaluation model