Lesson Learnt and Prospects of Media and Information Literacy Education in Universities: An Integrative Review

MIL (Media and Information Literacy) is a stand-alone course integrated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2011, which directly relates to an individual's daily communication and lifelong learning abilities.Nonetheless, promoting the MIL curriculum in universities worldwide is difficult since specific countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, have their frameworks, standards and models for teaching and evaluating IL or MIL.After analyzing 91 relevant articles, the researchers found that universities still need to accept the MIL curriculum worldwide.In terms of curriculum frameworks, most of the existing studies adopted the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) IL curriculum framework proposed by the American Library Association (ALA).In comparison, the MIL education framework proposed by UNESCO has been not adopted fully.It will take time to synthesize ML and IL into a stand-alone course due to resistance to pedagogical reforms, overloading students, limited classroom, and faculty training gap.The promotion of studentcenteredness, educational equity, gender equality, decolonization, anti-racism, rethinking Eurocentrism, white centrism and bridging the digital divide will become a universal value in the MIL curriculum in universities MIL modules will be integrated into the core curriculum of different disciplines in a flexible manner.The involvement of academic library staff in the MIL education process will become more widespread.As educational technology (EdTech) and communication technologies become widely integrated into MIL education, encouraging students' participation in the design and process of the MIL course will be more prevalent.