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Information Has Value Webcast - The Utility Of Social Media For Teaching Information Literacy, Nora Belzowski, Kristi Bugajski Aug 2018

Information Has Value Webcast - The Utility Of Social Media For Teaching Information Literacy, Nora Belzowski, Kristi Bugajski

Library Faculty Publications

How to use inquiry-based learning techniques to teach the information literacy threshold concept Information Has Value to students in a science for non-majors biology course. The presenters also discussed the design, implementation, and assessment of a scalable lesson plan that addresses concepts and skills within the Information Has Value frame.


Kill The One-Shot: Using A Collaboration Rubric To Liberate The Librarian-Instructor Partnership, Nora Belzowski, Mark Robison Jun 2018

Kill The One-Shot: Using A Collaboration Rubric To Liberate The Librarian-Instructor Partnership, Nora Belzowski, Mark Robison

Library Faculty Publications

Subject faculty sometimes put information literacy into a box when they ask a librarian to give “the library talk.” On the librarian’s end, this unimaginative request translates into a traditional one-shot, often focused on point-and-click skills training rather than building deeper IL competency. The authors developed a collaboration rubric to liberate librarians from this deadlock. This rubric document uses 9 lenses to focus the librarian-instructor collaboration on relevant sub-categories that show a variety of instruction modes. Some of these lenses include assignment design, the timing of instruction, librarians’ visibility in virtual class spaces, and librarians’ involvement in assessment. The rubric …


Integrating Information Literacy And Evidence-Based Medicine Content Within A New School Of Medicine Curriculum: Process And Outcome, Joanne M. Muellenbach, Kathryn M. Houk, Dana E. Thimons, Bredny Rodriguez Mar 2018

Integrating Information Literacy And Evidence-Based Medicine Content Within A New School Of Medicine Curriculum: Process And Outcome, Joanne M. Muellenbach, Kathryn M. Houk, Dana E. Thimons, Bredny Rodriguez

Library Faculty Publications

This column describes a process for integrating information literacy (IL) and evidence-based medicine (EBM) content within a new school of medicine curriculum. The project was a collaborative effort among health sciences librarians, curriculum deans, directors, and faculty. The health sciences librarians became members of the curriculum committees, developed a successful proposal for IL and EBM content within the curriculum, and were invited to become course instructors for Analytics in Medicine. As course instructors, the librarians worked with the other faculty instructors to design and deliver active learning class sessions based on a flipped classroom approach using a proprietary Information Mastery …