The Practice of Literature Knowledge Mining and Analysis Management for Improving Students' Information Literacy

With huge amount of information emerging every day, it brings challenges to advanced undergraduate students and junior postgraduate students. Actually, those students have different levels of information literacy due to the diversity of students' backgrounds. To improve students' information literacy, this paper designs a course, which puts it into practice by a class of software engineering major. The course structure consists of three parts that aims to improve students' three abilities: learning ability, academic research ability, and innovation ability. For learning ability, multiple usages of searching engines are added to help develop their search quotient. For academic research ability, how to search in many databases and how to manage the literatures are important issues. For innovation ability, how to evaluate innovations and how to manage one's inspirations are included. These three abilities are trained by project assignment that is required in a limited time. A questionnaire is carried out to obtain the feedbacks of participants. The results shed light on that the design of our course achieves good results with high satisfaction degree. It shows that the proposed course structure is very welcome and it has promising applications in other majors.