Why is it important to master them?

One of the main objectives of the European process to establish a common structure for higher education (EHEA) is to provide people with the knowledge and strategies they will need for lifelong learning.

In short, it is a question of preparing students for lifelong learning, for learning how to learn. This requires new teaching models, far removed from traditional teaching based on the expositional transmission and accumulation of knowledge, and the adoption of new learning models based on putting knowledge into practice and acquiring skills, which, among other things, provide students with information autonomy; ie, those information skills detailed above in the standards drawn up by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL-ALA).

In the same vein, this teaching model also represents a challenge for teachers, who need to put into practice new teaching and learning methods that aid acquisition of these skills, skills that will become the key to the future success of graduates in the development of their professional career.

The aim of these materials is to give students and teachers useful tools to discover how to use different information sources and how to select the best sources for each need. They also offer practical ideas to help them know why, where and how to use each information source and how to make a critical assessment of the information that each one provides and use it well. In short, to provide basic knowledge to help them become skilled with information.

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