Instead of traveling to the library, a user can access search engines and academic databases in an instant. And then, at the drop of a hat, the document can be searched through with a click. Knowledge by memorization has become a thing of the past. “The skills of analysis, evaluation, and synthesis will become the hallmarks of a good education, just as absorption of knowledge once was,” said the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. This new process is called information literacy and is the basis for what we now define as knowledge.
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