Integrating Information Literacy Learning in China Technical Vocational Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

Information literacy provides critical skills for professional growth and is a good predictor of vocational college learners’ future job success. As a progressive measure, higher vocational schools should focus on the development of competent citizens, highly skilled talent, and entrepreneurs in the information age. Improving the information literacy of vocational college learners and training them to live and study in an information-based society have emerged as important objectives for the talent development of vocational colleges. This review focuses on the concept of information literacy, analyzes the challenges that exist in present information literacy training for vocational college learners, and to offer a mode of information literacy training for vocational college learners, and details the techniques utilized to implement the mode. Colleges should carefully build courses and educational activities around it. The integration model in education approach is proposed, which integrates information literacy education with professional education, the learning scenario with the workplace situation, the learning task with the workplace task, and the learning mode with the working mode.

Keywords: Information Literacy, Career Development, Higher Vocational College Learners, Vocational Colleges, Information Literacy, Improvement Mode

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