A happy partnership—using an information portal to integrate information literacy skills into an undergraduate foundation course

Abstract

This paper reports on a collaboration between two academic teaching staff who jointly coordinate an undergraduate foundation course. One aim of the course, entitled ‘Computers, Communication and Society’, is to give the students experience in and access to the skills required to search, evaluate, manage and save information for later access. The staff utilised their diverse strengths in information management and in electronic publishing to integrate these information literacy skills into the course, via a foundation course portal. The students were consistently taught from and referred to the portal. Suggestions for improving the effectiveness of the portal are discussed. © 2003, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.