Posts Tagged ‘information literacy’
September 24 - When Librarians, Faculty and Instructional Designers Team Up, Students Win
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
Time was, integrating the library into your course meant sending your class to the physical library building for research, perhaps giving the librarians a heads-up so they could be prepared to introduce the card catalog and microfiche collection. Librarians acted solely as curators of the archives, collecting and cataloging resources and controlling access by users.
August 9 - Digital Storytelling Brings a Human Connection to Online Education
By: Deborah A. Raines, PhD in Instructional Design
Once upon a time people told stories to share experiences and to teach. With the growing popularity of distance learning modalities educator have been searching for ways to enhance social presence and reflective thinking in the online learning experience. The use of digital storytelling might be a strategy to bring human thought and emotion into online education.
May 28 - Learning Outcomes Assessment Standards Revealed in Survey of Academic Leaders
By: Mary Bart in Educational Assessment
The Association of American Colleges and Universities released findings last month from a survey of its members that revealed trends in undergraduate education and documenting the widespread use of a variety of approaches to assessing learning outcomes. The survey shows that campus leaders are focused both on providing students a broad set of learning outcomes and assessing students’ achievement of these outcomes across the curriculum.
May 5 - Partnering with Your Librarian to Promote Information Literacy
By: Marilyn Steinberg and Kari Mofford in Effective Teaching Strategies
Librarians as partners is a relationship that may not have occurred to you, but as librarians we think it’s one you ought to explore. Librarians are qualified to help you with pedagogical issues that go way beyond how to find a book or search a database.
February 23 - Information Literacy: Improving Student Research Skills in a Wikipedia World
By: Mary Bart in Curriculum Development, Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching and Learning
When you assign your students to write a paper, do they know where to start? Upperclassmen surely do, but what about freshmen? Left to their own devices, they’ll likely turn to Google and Wikipedia as their main research tools, and may never even set foot in the library if they can help it.
February 19 - Faculty and Librarians as Partners: Collaborations That Work
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
If information literacy isn’t part of the vernacular at your school, it will be soon. As the volume and variety of information available to students continues to explode, students need to know how to locate, evaluate, and use the information properly and ethically. Your school’s library staff can help.
Kari Nyren Mofford is the co-chair of the New England Library Instruction Group and previously was instruction coordinator/information technology librarian at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. She has presented at conferences on faculty-librarian collaborations and creating information literacy programs with librarians.
