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Information Behavior of Humanities Students in Bulgaria, Italy and Sweden: Planning a Game-Based Learning Approach for Avoiding Fake Content

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Information Literacy in Everyday Life (ECIL 2018)

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The paper deals with the Erasmus+ project NAVIGATE - Information Literacy: A Game-based Learning Approach for Avoiding Fake Content, coordinated by the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies in Bulgaria. The focus of the project is on Bachelor’s students in Humanities who either do not have the skills to distinguish fake content or do not have the desire, due to lack of time and interest, to conduct more in-depth information search. By applying a game-based approach to information literacy training in three European countries innovation can be brought into this field. The results of an empirical sociological survey conducted in the partners’ institutions in Bulgaria, Italy and Sweden on students’ understanding of the concepts of information and mobile literacy and the criteria used by the learners for the assessment of information are presented. Emphasis is also placed on the role of the library as a partner in the learning.

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Acknowledgements

The project NAVIGATE – Information Literacy: A Game-based Learning Approach for Avoiding Fake Content 2017-1-BG01-KA203-036383 is being implemented with the financial support of Erasmus+ program of the European Union.

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  1. Library Studies Department, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Marina Encheva & Plamena Zlatkova

  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

    Anna Maria Tammaro

  3. Library/Learning Centre, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

    Mats Brenner

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  1. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. Department of Information and Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Maija Leena Huotari

  6. Department of Information Studies , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Esther Grassian

  7. Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  8. School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Loriene Roy

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Encheva, M., Zlatkova, P., Tammaro, A.M., Brenner, M. (2019). Information Behavior of Humanities Students in Bulgaria, Italy and Sweden: Planning a Game-Based Learning Approach for Avoiding Fake Content. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy in Everyday Life. ECIL 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 989. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_28

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