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Is There a Focus on Information Literacy as a Transversal Skill Within the Institutional Accreditation Process?

verfasst von : Elitsa Lozanova-Belcheva

Erschienen in: Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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The aim of the paper is to compare the standards and criteria of different organizations that accredit some of the top universities in the world according to the QS World University Rankings for 2015/2016. Regional accreditation organizations in USA support information literacy outcomes, but I found some differences between their practices and the criteria of other accrediting agencies. Information literacy is mentioned as important indicator of students’ competency in some of them, but not in others. The paper also investigates the Criteria system for institutional accreditation of higher schools in Bulgaria where standards are similar with regulations of the quality of university programs around the world but without a focus on information literacy. The conclusions refer to insufficient awareness of the importance of information literacy as a transversal skill in the digital society and its role for the social inclusion of young people.

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The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) was founded in 1895 as one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States. Through an agreement between the HLC and the Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (CASI), the North Central Association has been dissolved.

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Titel: Is There a Focus on Information Literacy as a Transversal Skill Within the Institutional Accreditation Process?
verfasst von: Elitsa Lozanova-Belcheva
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-52161-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-52162-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_33

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