<b>Innovation in the Teaching of Information Literacy in graduate courses :</b> a scoping review

Rocha, Gizele; Monteiro, Simone

doi:10.20396/rdbci.v23i00.8676259

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Research Article • Rev. Digit. Bibl. and Cienc. Inf. 23 • 2025 • https://doi.org/10.20396/rdbci.v23i00.8676259/en linkcopy

Innovation in the Teaching of Information Literacy in graduate courses : a scoping review

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Introduction Studies show that teaching information literacy (IL) enables access to quality scientific information and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), which are essential for professional teaching and research. During the recent covid-19 pandemic, the use of these technologies has taken on even greater importance and has become a trend in teaching activities.

Objective Identify innovative practices in teaching IC in postgraduate courses. The study is based on the hypothesis that students' learning about IC can contribute to improving professionals' skills related to autonomy and efficiency in the process of searching, selecting, and retrieving scientific information. Methodology A literature scoping review was developed on innovations in CoInfo teaching in postgraduate programs in and outside Brazil. The search was carried out in the Medline, Lilacs, ERIC, Cinahl, Academic Search Premier, Scopus, Scielo databases and the Oasis.Br repository, focusing on scientific production, in English and Portuguese, produced between 2010 and 2022. Of the 632 articles found, after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 14 were selected for analysis.

Results Innovations in teaching CoInfo in higher education were identified, such as online tutorials, asynchronous courses using humor, virtual visits to libraries, as well as partnerships between teachers, librarians, pedagogues, and university staff.

Conclusion The findings attest to innovations in CoInfo teaching that can be adapted to the contexts of postgraduate programs in the country, with the aim of increasing student access to quality scientific information, which is necessary for the development of teaching, research, and knowledge production activities.

KEYWORDS
Information literacy; Teaching; Graduate; Information and Communication Technology; Innovation.

Databases	Search strategy	Total
Lilacs	(“Health Postgraduate Program” OR “Postgraduate Strico Sensu” OR “Postgraduate Education” OR “Postgraduate” OR teaching OR “Continuing Education” OR “Distance Education” OR “Formal Education” OR “Non-Formal Education” OR “Higher Education” OR “Postgraduate Teaching” OR learning OR class OR course OR discipline OR workshop OR training OR teaching OR “Education, Continuing” OR “Education, Distance” OR “Education, Higher” OR “Education, Graduate" OR 'Health Postgraduate Programs' OR postgraduate) AND (""Information Competence" OR "Digital Literacy" OR "Informational Literacy" OR "Informational Literacy" OR "Information Literacy" OR "Academic Literacy" OR coinfo OR "Critical Information Competence" OR "Informational Competence" OR "Information Competence" OR "Informational Influence" OR "Informational Literacy" OR "Information Literacy" OR "Information Literacy Education" OR "Informational Literacy" OR "Computer Literacy“ OR ‘Digital Literacy’ OR ‘Academic Literacy’ OR ‘Critical Information Literacy’) AND (”Virtual Learning Environment” OR ‘Social Network’ OR ‘Social Media’ OR ‘Educational Technology’ OR ‘Information Technology’ OR chatbots OR internet OR Instagram OR Facebook OR “Social Networks” OR “Educational Technologies” OR “Information and Communication Technologies” OR hybrid OR synchronous OR asynchronous OR tics OR YouTube OR “Social Networking” OR “Social Media” OR “Information Technology” OR “artificial intelligence”) AND (db: (“LILACS”)) AND (type:(“article”)) AND (year cluster:[2010 TO 2022])	41
Medline	((("postgraduate"[Title/Abstract] OR ("postgraduate program"[Title/Abstract] OR "Teaching"[Title/Abstract] OR "Teaching"[MeSH Terms] OR "education, continuing"[MeSH Terms] OR "Education"[Title/Abstract] OR "education, distance"[MeSH Terms])) AND ("internet"[MeSH Terms] OR "facebook"[Title/Abstract] OR "social media"[MeSH Terms] OR "social networking"[MeSH Terms] OR "social networking"[Title/Abstract]) AND "information technology"[Title/Abstract]) OR "information technology"[MeSH Terms] OR (("information literacy"[MeSH Terms] OR "information literacy"[Title/Abstract] OR ("information literacy competencies"[Title/Abstract] OR "information literacy competency"[Title/Abstract]) OR "computer literacy"[Title/Abstract] OR "computer literacy"[MeSH Terms] OR "academic literacy"[Title/Abstract]) AND ("compete"[All Fields] OR "competed"[All Fields] OR "competences"[All Fields] OR "competencies"[All Fields] OR "competently"[All Fields] OR "competents"[All Fields] OR "competes"[All Fields] OR "competing"[All Fields] OR "mental competency"[MeSH Terms] OR ("mental"[All Fields] AND "competency"[All Fields]) OR "mental competency"[All Fields] OR "competence"[All Fields] OR "competency"[All Fields] OR "competent"[All Fields]))) AND ("inform"[All Fields] OR "informal"[All Fields] OR "informality"[All Fields] OR "informally"[All Fields] OR "informant"[All Fields] OR "informant s"[All Fields] OR "informants"[All Fields] OR "Information"[All Fields] OR "information s"[All Fields] OR "informational"[All Fields] OR "informations"[All Fields] OR "informative"[All Fields] OR "informatively"[All Fields] OR "informativeness"[All Fields] OR "informativity"[All Fields] OR "informed"[All Fields] OR "informer"[All Fields] OR "informers"[All Fields] OR "informing"[All Fields] OR "informs"[All Fields]) AND "Literacy"[Title/Abstract] AND ("humans"[MeSH Terms] AND 2010/01/01:2022/12/31[Date - Publication]) AND ("humans"[MeSH Terms] AND 2010/01/01:2022/12/31[Date - Publication])	783
ERIC	("Postgraduate Programs" OR "Postgraduate" OR "Higher Education" OR "E-learning" OR "Education Continuing" OR "Education Distance" OR "Education Higher" OR "Education Graduate") AND ("Teaching" OR "learning") AND ("Information Literacy" OR "Information Literacy Education" OR "Digital Literacy" OR "Computer Literacy" OR "Academic Literacy" OR "Critical Information Literacy" OR "Digital Competence" OR "information Literacy Education") last 10 years and journal articles.	374
Scopus	(TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( "Postgraduate Programs" OR "Postgraduate" OR "Higher Education" OR "E-learning" OR "Education Continuing" OR "Education Distance" OR "Education Higher" OR "Education Graduate" ) ) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( "Teaching" OR "learning" OR "education" ) ) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( "Information Literacy" OR "Information Literacy Education" OR "Digital Literacy" OR "Computer Literacy" OR "Academic Literacy" OR "Critical Information Literacy" OR "Digital Competence" OR "Informational Literacy Education" )	161
Ebsco	TX ((“Postgraduate Programs" OR Postgraduate OR "E-learning" OR Education OR "Higher Education" OR "Education Continuing" OR "Education Distance" OR "Education Higher" OR "Education Graduate") AND TX (Teaching OR learning OR education) AND TI (("Information Literacy" OR "information literacy education" OR "Computer Literacy" OR "Digital Literacy" OR "Academic Literacy" OR "Critical Information Literacy" OR "Digital Competence" OR "Informational Literacy") )	22
Scielo	((postgraduate) OR (postgraduate) OR (graduate) OR ([graduation] AND (([education] (teaching) OR (learning) OR (continuing education) OR (education) OR (learning) OR (teaching) OR (continuing education)) AND ((information literacy) OR (information literacy education) OR (digital literacy) OR (information competence) OR (ICTs) OR (ICTs))	27
Oasis	(teaching OR learning OR distance learning OR virtual learning environment OR VLE OR ICTs) AND (“information literacy” OR “Information Competence” OR “information competence” OR “information literacy”) AND (“post-graduation” OR “Stricto Sensu”)	36
Total	Results in all databases	1444

14 selected articles	Location	Type of Study	Population	Innovation in Co-Info
Adams et al. (2016)	University of Auckland, New Zealand	Case study	Undergraduate and postgraduate students	Research methodology course integrated into the curriculum, in online and face-to-face format, following reintegration and curriculum reassessment. Provides critical skills for analyzing and carrying out postgraduate health research.
An e Quail (2018)	York University, Canada	DA	Undergraduate and postgraduate students and Administration faculty	Student-centered toolkit (videos, PDF) integrated into the curriculum as e-learning support for a business course. Work developed by librarians using a curriculum mapping exercise, online surveys, and focus groups.
Boden (2007)	Imperial College London, England	Case study	Postgraduate and postdoctoral students	Game-like online tutorial with tasks that develop CoInfo skills
Clapsopoulos et al. (2014)	Portland State University, Greece	Case study	Graduate students, postgraduates, professors	It describes experiences of software and web pages developed in different contexts for teaching CoInfo. It contributes to the need to establish a CoInfo policy that integrates SL and can be followed by Greek universities.
Hepworth e Wema (2006)	Universidade de Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania	Case study	Postgraduate students (Masters Faculty of Education)	Online CoInfo training course in partnership with the university library
Hughes (2013)	Queensland University of Technology, Australia	Qualitative and exploratory in nature	Australia's international students reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of the population	Use of online information resources (databases) offered to exchange students. The study reveals cultural differences, language barriers, and specific information needs of this group.
Kelt (2013)	Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), England	Case study	Graduate researchers and CGU teaching staff	Online tutorial based on Boden (2007) and adapted to the needs of GCU postgraduates with distant campuses and vacancies in other locations outside the country
Mirriahi et al. (2015)	University of New South Wales, Australia,	Case study	Teaching staff	Training of teaching staff to enable them to design online learning training courses
Mune et al. (2015)	State University de San Jose (SJSU), São Francisco, California, USA	Case study	Master's students, Faculty of Education	Canvas CoInfo/IL Online course (librarians were enrolled as instructors before the start of the pilot period in 2013) features 15 CoInfo modules in Canvas, managed online through a Learning Management System.
Sample (2020)	Oral Roberts University, Oklahoma, EUA	Case study	Postgraduate international and traditional students	The 3600 virtual library visit is aimed at non-traditional postgraduate students and international students with various AVMR combinations¹. Aims to reduce anxiety before visiting the library in person. Reposition the library as the learning center of the university. IL course and workshop with AVMR augmentation
Shaffer (2011)	State University of New York at Oswego, EUA	Quantitative study (preand post-test) citation analysis	Postgraduate students	It examined learning and confidence to perform CoInfo tasks among students in postgraduate programs, comparing those who study online tutorials with those who receive practical classroom instruction.
Stagg e Kimmins (2014)	University of Southern Queensland, Australia	Case study	Postgraduate students from a Faculty of Management and Law undergraduates from the same faculty.	Compares self-reported CoInfo by two groups of undergraduates and postgraduates who attended face-to-face CoInfo classes
Tomaszewski (2021)	State University of California, Fullerton, EUA	Case study	graduation students and post graduation	One-shot synchronous workshop on Information Competence
Wegener (2022)	Singapore University, Singapore	Qualiquanti (preand post-test)	Undergraduates and faculty wishing to review their IL competencies	Asynchronous online CoInfo course with humor as a way of reducing stress and anxiety, stimulating creativity, and facilitating memory.

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