Information Literacy in Latin America students: a review of programs and proposes

The purpose of this research has been to analyze, information literacy programs in the Latin America higher, education system considering six areas: program objectives,, the standard of competence in which the program is based, the, target audience, training modality, strategies, and educational, resources, and the results obtained. At first, a documentary, review was carried out to identify the information literacy, programs of Latin American universities reported in scientific, journals. Then the analysis of each program was carried out,, from the web portals of the universities, through a rubric that, contained the 6 areas under study. 46 university information, literacy programs in 12 countries of the region were analyzed. The results of this research reflect that the modality that, predominates in literacy programs is face-to-face, followed by, blended learning. Only 7% of the programs make explicit the, standard of competence they are pursuing. Most of the, programs (67%) were designed for the university community, as a whole, but students are the majority group (86.8%). The, workshop predominates as a learning strategy and tutorials as, an educational resource. The results achieved by the programs, analyzed were not found.