The Digital learning environments to promote information literacy in higher education: Designing and Instruction framework

Abstract

People in the 21st century live in a technology and media-suffused environment, media and information literacy is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge and promoting free, independent and pluralistic media and information systems. The purpose of this research is to synthesize theoretical framework and designing framework of the digital learning environments that promote information literacy in primary school. The developmental research: Phase I: Product and tools research (Richey and Klein, 2007) was employed in this study. Several methods used were document analysis and survey. The procedures are as follows: (1) Examining and analyzing principles and theories, (2) Synthesizing the theoretical framework of the digital learning environments which promote information literacy in primary school, and (3) Synthesizing the designing framework of the digital learning environments which promote information literacy in primary school. The results revealed that this model consisted of nine elements as follows: (1) Problem base and learning task, (2) Learning resource, (3) Information Operations Centre, (4) Coaching, (5) Scaffolding, (6) Collaboration.