Although information literacy is not specifically mentioned in the ABET outcomes, the development of these skills is essential to the achievement of several outcomes. Civil Engineering faculty at the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) have developed performance indicators and assessment tools under existing ABET outcomes designed to develop and improve student information literacy skills...

Digital literacy skills are essential for today’s citizens. These skills are expected for everyday personal use, learning and effective performance at work. The UK’s Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (HE) and employers therefore require graduates to be able to demonstrate these skills. However, the cost of UK university education is rising substantially and cashand time-poor learner...

Government policies to prevent the spread of Covid-19 makes teaching and learning activities carried out online. However, after corona virus subsided, offline began be reinstated. This habit change raises several problems in process. is because students are used online which has time flexibility limited assistance provided by educators. study aims analyze loss recovery strategies for students. ...

The aim of this systematic review is to provide, for the first time, a broad overview scope and nature current English language concept ‘psychological literacy' (PL) as evidenced in literature, primarily since 2010. Covidence methodology yielded 112 papers that were scored on 23 specific criteria/questions relevant addressing predetermined research questions. PL has been conceptualized both gen...

This concluding article comments on what we learned from the conference, what we still need to know, and what we need to do now. It describes what participants said about the impact of the conference and the follow-up steps that have been taken so far. In terms of what we learned, there was agreement on the importance of culture in understanding literacy and health literacy; the importance of c...

Domain-independent models of the design process are an important means for facilitating interdisciplinary communication and for supporting multidisciplinary design. Many so-called domain-independent models are, however, not really domain independent. We state that, to be domain independent, the models must abstract from domain-specific aspects, be based on the study of several design discipline...

BACKGROUND eHealth apps have the potential to meet the information needs of patient populations and improve health literacy rates. However, little work has been done to document perceived usability of portals and health literacy of specific topics. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to establish a baseline of lung cancer health literacy and perceived portal usability. METHODS A survey based on previousl...

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...