Key to Information Treasure in Digital World- Digital Literacy in Higher Education

The European University Association's DIGI-HE project explores different ways in which higher education institutions can increase their strategic approach to digitally enhanced learning and teachi...

Information literacy, is the ability to feel the need for information, to define it, to reach it and to evaluate, organize and use. In today's world, there are all kinds of resources and information in the internet environment and it is obligatory to have the skills of: Knowing the types of sources; Evaluating the means of access to information; Analyzing the need for information and Reorganizing the information. Being information literate in the digital world forms the basis of the lifelong learning process. The university youth, who used the digital world only for chatting, social communication and listening to music, proved that they lack digital information literacy in homework preparation and exams during the pandemic process in 2019-2021. They can not to adequately use the digital resources, which universities have subscribed to by spending thousands of euros.They lack knowledge about the possibility of free access to information, programs and resources known to be accurate. The principal goal of the project was to design an innovative, guiding, competitive and international curriculum corresponding to present day need digital information literacy and to design an e-learning course for university students.