Metaliteracy was explored as part of a one-week international online course about Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy. The project team for this initiative is led by Prof. Dr. Joachim Griesbaum and Theresia Woltermann from the Department for Information Science and Natural Language Processing at Hildesheim University, Germany. This year’s summer workshop also included educators and students from Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce Pune, India, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and University of Graz, Austria.

Tom Mackey, Professor of Arts and Media at SUNY Empire State College and Trudi Jacobson, Distinguished Librarian at The University at Albany were invited to represent “Team USA” from the State University of New York (SUNY). Trudi and Tom presented a Team USA Workshop that explored their contributions to the project from a metaliteracy perspective, including related open educational resources (OER) developed as part of their work with the Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative.

As part of this week-long transnational online course, students collaborated on final projects that they presented to all participants on the last day of class. Each of the student projects provided a detailed analysis of an information literacy or metaliteracy online resource. The students conducted research and closely examined each platform based on content analysis, usability, and accessibility. Two of the teams analyzed specific metaliteracy OER including the open content associated with the Metaliteracy Digital Badging system and the Coursera MOOC Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World. Both presentations are exceptional and will inform the further development of each metaliteracy resource. The slides from each student group are shared with their permission:

“The Metaliteracy Badges” by Group 4: Ismail Börü, M E Jacob, Swara Bhatt,
Meghana Manoj Warrier and Denise Schatte

“Metaliteracy: Empowering Yourself in a Connected World” by Group 5: Nakia El-Sayed Alina John Shuchi Shekdar Namik Jamakosmanović.

Tom and Trudi were inspired by this exciting international online course and will continue their participation by developing related online courses as part of the next session in fall 2021.

If you have any questions or comments or would like to contribute your own feedback to these metaliteracy resources, feel free to reach out.

-Tom and Trudi