Embedding information literacy in a first-year business undergraduate course

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 705-718

  Price, Robin ^a   Becker, Karen ^a   Clark, Lynette ^a   Collins, Sue ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

collaborative work; information literacy; scholarship of teaching; student success; teaching and learning strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858377909     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075071003725350     Document Type: Article

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