Competência em Informação para a EaD: Contribuições para o Processo de Aprendizagem

Abstract

The workinvestigates the interrelationships between Distance Education and Information Literacy, presenting contributions from the development of informationliteracyto the learning process in distance education. Student learning in distance education is challenging, requiring a set of skills to build autonomy and independent learning, an aspectal so discussed in the field of Information Science, based on information literacy. This competence is related to the ability to search for, use and manage information, making individuals able to search for, interpret and use quality information to build their own knowledge, and is closely related to the objectives of distance education. The research is bibliographical in nature with a qualitative an alysisof the literature retrieved, correlating information literacy standards with competence guidelines for distance education. The research suggests that by acquiring information literacy, individuals change their informational behavior and the way they handle information, making them better able to interpret and construct their learning in distance education.