Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Wiki-Ing Your Way Into Collaborative Learning, Kenneth Orenic, Molly Beestrum

Library Scholarship

Practitioners in information literacy and library instruction have outed the benefits of collaborative learning for years. Students learn more when they work together to develop critical research skills. Wikis have added a new dimension to the process of collaborative learning. This presentation demonstrated how quickly and easily librarians can create classroom assignments and engage students, generate immediate results, promote collaboration, and reinforce learning objectives all through the use of a wiki.

Engaging That Other Audience: Encouraging Faculty Involvement In Information Literacy Using New Technology, Jennifer Kelley

Library Scholarship

Literature on the subject shows that information literacy programs truly thrive when they receive support and involvement from teaching faculty. While efforts to integrate information literacy instruction into the curriculum and collaborating with faculty are not new, many of the opportunities and tools for doing so are.

Whether you have full-support from all faculty (lucky you!) or varying levels of involvement from isolated departments or instructors here and there, we all have access to the tools we need to spark interest, take conversations to the next level, engage individuals, and create collaborative environments for designing information literacy sessions and programs.