IT Competencies

Articles About Competencies
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university-venus/various-shades-digital-literacy-new-digital-divides

Article on University of Guelph adopting campus-wide learning outcomes http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2012/12/u_of_g_embraces.html

Project Information Literacy Research Report: “Learning Curve” | October 16, 2012 | Alison J. Head How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_fall2012_workplaceStudy_FullReport.pdf

From p.12 and following:

Figure 5: Competencies Employers Say they Need—But College Hires Rarely Demonstrate

Optimal Information Competencies for College Hires (according to employers) 1. Engaging team members during the research process 2. Retrieving information using a variety of formats 3. Finding patterns and making connections 4. Taking a deep dive into the “information reservoir”

HEQCO-published research report: http://www.heqco.ca/en-CA/Research/Research%20Publications/Pages/Summary.aspx?link=90&title=Information%20Literacy%20Competency%20Standards%20for%20Students:%20A%20Measure%20of%20the%20Effectiveness%20of%20Information%20Literacy%20Initiatives%20in%20Higher%20Education

http://ht.ly/gUrAk

http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/the-new-media-literacies/

Competencies from other Institutions
http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2012/12/u_of_g_embraces.html

http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/services/information_literacy_&_instruction/for_faculty_&_graduate_students.cfm

http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/services/information_literacy_&_instruction/about_information_literacy/

University of Victoria Competency Toolkit Includes specific competencies for Managing Information and Research and Analysis

Microsoft in Education: Education Success Profiles for College/university professor

Microsoft in Education: Education Success Profiles for College/university student

http://www.wpunj.edu/cte/learning-literacies/information-literacy-competencies.dot

http://sites.wiki.ubc.ca/etec510/Information_Literacy

http://www.wpunj.edu/cte/learning-literacies/technology-competencies.dot

http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/characteristics

http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency#stan

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/media_and_information_literacy_curriculum_for_teachers_en.pdf

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/information-literacy-neglected-core-competency

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001562/156207e.pdf

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001562/156210E.pdf

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001929/192971e.pdf

http://www.wilmu.edu/technology/itaccompetencies.aspx

http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/policies/techplan/competencies.html

http://gslis.dom.edu/academics/studentresources/techcomp

http://www.unmc.edu/nursing/Technology_Competencies.htm

http://digitalliteracy.cornell.edu/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/higher-education-network-blog/2011/oct/10/digital-literacy-collaboration

http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/may/15/digital-literacy-in-universities

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/supportingyourinstitution/studentjourney/digilit.aspx

http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/staff/files/UG_Embedding_Digital_Literacy.pdf

http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-students

http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers

http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-administrators

http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-coaches

http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-computer-science-educators

http://www.pointsmartreport.org/appendix-d.html