Information Literacy, Media Literacy and Lifelong Learning being the main theme, ECIL aims to bring together researchers, information professionals, media specialists, educators, policy makers, employers and all other related parties from around the world to exchange knowledge and experience and discuss current issues, recent developments, standards, techniques, challenges, theories, and good practices.
Main topics of the Conference include (but not limited with) the following:
- Information literacy & lifelong learning
- Information literacy in theoretical context
- Models
- Standards
- Indicators
- Information literacy & related concepts
- Transversal competencies
- Media literacy
- Civic literacy
- Transliteracy
- Metaliteracy
- E-literacy
- Digital literacy
- Computer literacy
- Scientific literacy
- Visual literacy
- Digital empowerment
- Media and Information Literacy (MIL) as a new concept
- Information literacy research
- Research methods and techniques
- Information seeking and information behavior
- Information literacy good practices
- Information literacy networks and networking
- Information literacy policies & policy development
- Information literacy & libraries
- College and university libraries
- School libraries
- Public libraries
- Special libraries
- Information literacy & LIS education
- Information literacy & knowledge management
- Information literacy across disciplines
- Information literacy in different cultures and countries
- Information literacy in different contexts (juristic, health, etc.)
- Information literacy & education
- Bologna Process
- Planning strategies for information literacy training
- Promotion and marketing
- Training the trainers
- Partnership
- Collaboration across professions
- Teacher education
- Integrating into curricula
- Information literacy instruction
- Teaching techniques and methods
- Instructional design
- Curriculum development
- Measurement and evaluation
- Web-based training
- e-Learning
- Information literacy education in different sectors
- K-12
- Higher education
- Vocational education
- Information literacy in the workplace
- Information literacy for adults
- Information literacy for children and young people
- Information literacy for disadvantaged groups
- Information literacy for multicultural societies
- Information literacy & ethical and social issues
- Information literacy & democracy
- Information literacy & citizenship
- Information literacy & digital divide
- Information literacy & emerging technologies
- Web 2.0
- Web 3.0
- Mobile technologies
- Information literacy in the future