Empowering People and Communities

You will gain an understanding of key information behaviour theories, and will explore the interview process, advanced search skills, and specific techniques to support diverse groups of information seekers including Māori and Pasifika.

This online course will also examine how to design and deliver training and teaching programmes, and how to facilitate learning through supporting the development of multiple literacies.

For more information watch the course introduction video below.

Students who successfully complete this online course will be able to

• Interpret information behaviour theory and practices, including information seeking by particular user groups including Māori and Pasifika.
• Apply information facilitation skills and interview techniques to determine the information needs of individuals in a range of information service contexts.
• Develop advanced search techniques to perform specialist and comprehensive information retrieval, using physical and digital tools.
• Plan, deliver and evaluate a training or teaching programme in an information service context.
• Support the development of multiple literacies through facilitating the creation of new knowledge and skills.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.

For online learning you need:

• Access to a laptop or desktop computer
• Reliable broadband internet and a data plan

Find out more about online learning

If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.