Ten Reasons to Teach Information Literacy for Credit

摘要

I've long advocated putting information literacy into the university cur-riculum and teaching it for credit. The best way to do this initially is to lodge a credit information literacy course within the core of each university major. Credit-bearing modules within existing courses through the curriculum can also be successful. In my humble opinion, the rarity of for-credit information literacy instruction in higher education is a disgrace. Thus, following the great tradition of how-to gurus and late night talk show hosts, let me present you with 10 reasons why we have to teach information literacy for credit. We teach public speaking, phys ed, even gaming and dance, all of which are viewed as credible academic subjects. But information literacy? Academic administrators tend to see it as remedial, not something that actually belongs in the mainstream curriculum.