Enhancing Students’ Tertiary Blended Learning Experience Through Embedding Digital Information Literacy
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https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v4i1.171Keywords:
blended, learning, online, information, literacyAbstract
This article argues that integrating practices of digital information literacy can support a learner-centred, developmental blended learning experience. It considers the consequences of blended learning delivery for teachers and students and how the affordances of such delivery might benefit digital information literacy development. Additionally, the article aims to contribute to a discussion about the design of blended learning for digital information literacy development in tertiary institutions.
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