Information Literacy Philosophy for Busitema University

We believe in helping our students recognize and articulate the need for relevant information, locate and access it, ethically use it to critique resources, facts, and opinions, generate new knowledge, and solve societal problems.

We commit to:

• Help our students engage with information to solve academic problems, thus creating new understanding through active investigation and thought, instead of memorizing facts presented in-class lectures.
• Help our students acquire integrated skills to effectively participate in the generation and application of information for lifelong learning.
• Help our students to become pedagogically sophisticated through triangulated approaches, and enable them to become interdisciplinary researchers.
• Use multiple appropriate approaches to realize the intended learning outcomes, and enable students to do the assessment, and recognize as many learning styles and approaches as is realistically possible within and in all disciplines.
• Impart in students a set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning.
• Impart in students a set of applied skills for negotiating the huge amount of information in the modern world and instilling in students the practice of objectively examining competing versions of the truth and rejecting claims for which there is no evidence.

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