A new tool to help you better understand and use information
At its meeting on September 23, the Committee on Education and Academic Life (CFVU) unanimously adopted the framework for information literacy competencies developed by theUM. Intended for faculty, librarians, and students, it formalizes the competencies 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 teaching 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 Skills
Information literacy encompasses the full range of 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 bachelor’s degree through 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 analyze them to assess their reliability, and to reuse them in an ethical and responsible manner. Grounded in and intrinsically linked to disciplinary instruction, these skills are also interconnected with 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 available to them to support their academic and professional success as well as their development as responsible citizens.