The contributions of open educational resources and mooc for the promotion of information literacy

Abstract

This paper examines whether open educational resources and the massive open online courses can be used in information literacy programs conducted by Health Sciences libraries as well as for continuing education for health librarians. It features some open educational resources lookup tools, some examples of healthcare-specific repositories, editing tools, and content creation tools. It also displays massive open online courses options on instructional design, information competence, and competence in health information. The objective was to verify if these resources can contribute to the programs of competence in information in the area of Health Sciences in the face of the need for an increasingly personalized teaching based on information technologies. The theoretical bases of the research were constructed through a literature review. The theoretical bases of the research were constructed through a literature review. It is a bibliographical (as to the media), exploratory and descriptive research (in terms of its objective), and, from the point of view of data analysis and demonstration of results, with a qualitative and quantitative approach. It was found that these resources can contribute to programs of competence in information in the area of Health Sciences in the face of the need for an increasingly personalized teaching based on information technologies. It concludes that the use of educational resources open in programs and information competence represent innovative proposals capable of responding to the new demands of professional competence required by the emergence of the information society. It states that the development of these educational resources may represent new professional development opportunities for librarians. These resources offer the improvement in the teaching-learning practice offered to the health professionals aiming at a better match between the training offered and the demands of the labor market.