A new tool to help you better understand and use information
At its meeting on September 23, the Committee on Education and University Life (CFVU) unanimously adopted theUM Information Literacy Competency Framework. Intended for faculty members, librarians, and students, it outlines the skills needed to access relevant information sources more effectively and to use them appropriately and responsibly.
Initiated and led by the Joint Documentation Service (SCD), and enriched by discussions held over several months with all academic units (UEI), this competency framework serves as a foundational tool that teaching teams can use to develop proposals for the upcoming accreditation cycle, in accordance with the guidelines established by the institution.
Information literacy
Information literacy encompasses all the skills related to the understanding, mastery, and use of information and documentation. In a constantly evolving environment that has been profoundly transformed by artificial intelligence tools, these skills are essential for the education of students from the undergraduate to the doctoral level and can be applied throughout their professional careers.
These skills enable students, starting from a clearly defined need, to identify and access relevant sources of scientific information more effectively, to evaluate their reliability, and to reuse them in an ethical and responsible manner. Grounded in and intrinsically linked to subject-specific instruction, these skills are also connected to digital, writing, and communication skills. Finally, the approach they describe—in which critical thinking plays a major role—also contributes to the quality of research production and dissemination.
Teachers, librarians, students…
This framework is intended for teachers who wish to enrich, organize, and enhance the courses they already teach using a competency-based approach; for librarians who contribute to these efforts as part of their duties; and for students, who will find it an additional resource to support their academic and professional success as well as their development as responsible citizens.