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Information Literacy Development at Higher Education in Thailand and Vietnam

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Information Literacy Education of Higher Education in Asian Countries

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This chapter presents the situations of information literacy (IL) development in the context of higher education in Thailand and Vietnam based on literature reviews and previous research of the authors and related scholars. The topics include: (1) policies of the nations and authority organizations for higher education in relation to IL; (2) employers and markets’ expectations for the IL competencies of university graduates; (3) universities’ strategies for students’ IL development; (4) the IL learning ecology model.

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  1. Department of Information Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

    Kulthida Tuamsuk & Lan Thi Nguyen

  2. Smart Learning Innovation Research Center, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

    Kulthida Tuamsuk & Theeradej Manakul

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  2. Graduate Institute of Library, Information and Archival Studies, National Cheng-chi University, Taipei, Taiwan

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Tuamsuk, K., Nguyen, L.T., Manakul, T. (2023). Information Literacy Development at Higher Education in Thailand and Vietnam. In: Chen, CC., Wang, ML., Chu, S.K.W., Ishita, E., Tuamsuk, K., Shamila, M.S. (eds) Information Literacy Education of Higher Education in Asian Countries. Learning Sciences for Higher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0522-5_7

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