Course detail

Information Knowledge - Information Literacy

FSI-2IV Acad. year: 2024/2025 Summer semester

The course is aimed on FME students and gives basic information for their information literacy development.

Lessons are mainly focussed on effective searching of information sources. How to search, which tactics and strategies to use and how formulate search query. Students will learn where to search for print sources, where to find good quality free sources on the internet and which licenced databases they can use as BUT students. They will learn how to seach with online discovery search and how to use features of licenced databases. They will adopt basics of information ethics and critical suppose.

The course also touches other topics, important in futher studies or life – creative techniques, creative learning, effective reading, time and information management.

The course is held in distance form, through Moodle. Students can attend counsulting hours.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The condition for finalization the course is fulfill all tasks at least 50 %.

This course is lead in e-learning form. The faculty tutors check if the students has finished all of course's parts and the quality of processed or submitted tasks

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

This course is aimed at practical use of information sourses, institutions and the services they provide. The aim is to teach the student to work with the available electronic information sources with the possibility of their practical use during studies or scientific work.

The student should know after graduating:

  • Search and choose the relevant source of information
  • Know and use professional information sources in classic or electronic form
  • Be able to effectively use various searchnig engines
  • Using the library services for the study and the proffesion
  • Work with scientific text
  • Organize time and sources
  • Understand ethic adn legal starndards from the world of information

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-FIN-P: Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 1 credits, elective

Programme B-KSI-P: Mechanical Engineering Design, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 1 credits, elective

Programme B-PRP-P: Professional Pilot, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 1 credits, elective

Programme B-PDS-P: Industrial Design, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 1 credits, elective

Programme B-ENE-P: Energy, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 1 credits, elective

Programme B-MAI-P: Mathematical Engineering, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 1 credits, elective

Programme B-MET-P: Mechatronics, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 1 credits, elective

Programme B-ZSI-P: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's
branch MTI: Materials Engineering, 1 credits, elective

Programme B-ZSI-P: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's
branch STI: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, 1 credits, elective

Type of course unit

 

Computer-assisted exercise

13 hours, optionally

Syllabus

The course is structured as six consequential chapters.


Chapter 1: Searching of information – principles and strategies


Chapter 2: Sources of print information – particular institutions and                       their services


Chapter 3: On-line sources of technical information – free online                           sources (open access), licensed databases


Chapter 4: Creative usage of sourses – creative learning, creative                           techniques, effective reading


Chapter 5: Ethics and responsibility of using information – ethics of                     information, critical suppose, media literacy


Chapter 6: Using online sourses – organizing of information, time                         management, information security