A new tool for learning to better master and use information
On September 23, the Commission for Training and University Life (CFVU) unanimously adopted the UM's information skills repository. Aimed at teachers, librarians and students, it formalizes the skills needed to access relevant sources of information more effectively, and to use them appropriately and responsibly.
Initiated and supported by the shared documentation service (SCD), and enriched by discussions held over several months with all the teaching components (UEI), this skills repository is intended as a structuring tool, to be mobilized by teaching teams for the construction of mock-ups for the next accreditation period, in accordance with the framework defined by the establishment.
Information skills
Informational skills cover all the know-how involved in knowing, mastering and using information and documentation. In a constantly changing environment, profoundly disrupted by artificial intelligence tools, these skills are essential to the training of students, from bachelor's to doctorate level, and can be applied throughout their professional lives.
Based on a clearly formulated need, these skills enable students to identify and access relevant sources of scientific information more effectively, interrogate them to assess their reliability, and reuse them ethically and responsibly. Backed up by, and intrinsically linked to, subject-specific teaching, they are also linked to digital, writing and communication skills. Finally, the approach they describe, at the heart of which critical thinking plays a major role, also contributes to the quality of the production and dissemination of research work.
Teachers, librarians, students...
This reference framework is aimed at teachers who wish to enrich and structure the skills-based approach and enhance the training they already provide; librarians, who contribute to it as part of their duties; and students, who will see it as an additional means of promoting their academic and professional success, as well as their development as citizens.