Information literacy: Skills for life

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 8039-8047

  Welker, Andrea L ^a   Quintiliano, Barbara ^b   Green, Louise ^b  

^a Villanova University   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ASSIGNMENTS; INFORMATION LITERACY; PEER LEARNING TECHNIQUES; STUDENT LEARNING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 22544463947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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