ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education grew out of a belief that information literacy as an educational reform movement will realize its potential only through a richer, more complex set of core ideas. Intentionally called a framework, it is based on a cluster of flexible interconnected core concepts. Six threshold concepts comprise the framework.
The Framework opens the way for librarians, faculty, and other institutional partners to redesign instruction sessions, assignments, courses, and even curricula; to connect information literacy with student success initiatives; to collaborate on pedagogical research and involve students themselves in that research; and to create wider conversations about student learning, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and the assessment of learning on local campuses and beyond.
Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
Information Creation as a Process
Searching as Strategic Exploration
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