Industrial engineer information literacy training

Abstract

The article describes the characteristics of information, its importance for making of decisions and the need of including information literacy as a focus of the teaching-learning process at the university. The aim was to devise activities capable of integrating academic solving problem and locating, accessing and retrieving the information needed for their corresponding solution. A theoretical framework is constructed on the basis of documents analysis and systematizing methods, modeling was used to devise the activities describing their structure and components. Finally, an experiment was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposal in training industrial engineers at the University of Camagüey. The findings include a set of activities that combines problem-solving with information management which in terms lead to improving students’ ability and informational behavior.