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The New Acrl Information Literacy Competency Standards: Revising Reception, Benjamin R. Harris
The New Acrl Information Literacy Competency Standards: Revising Reception, Benjamin R. Harris
Library Faculty Research
The publication of educational standards inspires a variety of responses, from wholesale acceptance and deployment to criticism and blame. The author of this paper contends that the revision of the ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education must be accompanied by a critical, conscious, and conscientious reception by librarians and information literacy advocates.
An Information Literacy Summer Assignment: Digital Learning Materials For The First Year Experience, Jeremy W. Donald
An Information Literacy Summer Assignment: Digital Learning Materials For The First Year Experience, Jeremy W. Donald
Library Faculty Research
Trinity University enrolls approximately 2400 undergraduate students, with an entering first-year class of ~600. As part of a campus-wide summer reading assignment, librarians and technologists were tasked with creating an online information literacy assignment, in which students were to complete an annotated bibliography related to the summer reading selection. The end result—an interactive website--combined instructional design, assessment, and usability design, and student work on the assignment was (optionally) incorporated into First Year Seminars.
Using Technology To Support Faculty And Enhance Coursework In Academic Institutions, Jeremy W. Donald
Using Technology To Support Faculty And Enhance Coursework In Academic Institutions, Jeremy W. Donald
Library Faculty Research
The article offers tips on how use technology to support faculty and to enhance coursework in academic institutions in Texas. It states that communication and trust building are the first step to successful collaborations. Moreover, learning goals of the faculty member for the assignment must be determined. Furthermore, parameters and limitations of the project must also be determined.