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Active Learning: Overcoming Barriers And Changing Culture, Laura Barrett, Katie Harding Jun 2021

Active Learning: Overcoming Barriers And Changing Culture, Laura Barrett, Katie Harding

Dartmouth Library Staff Publications

Active learning is a student-centered and effective pedagogical approach, but there are practical barriers that can make it difficult to employ. As instructors and facilitators in Dartmouth’s Librarians Active Learning Institute, we’ve experienced and heard about the challenges librarians face when trying to incorporate active learning in their teaching, including faculty expectations, time constraints, class sizes, space constraints, and virtual learning environments.

In this session, we will share strategies for helping librarians to overcome these challenges and incorporate active learning pedagogy into their teaching practice. We will present approaches for communicating with faculty about our roles as teachers and partnering …


Building Demand And Reaching For Capacity, Michael Goudzwaard, Cynthia Cogswell Jan 2018

Building Demand And Reaching For Capacity, Michael Goudzwaard, Cynthia Cogswell

Other Staff Materials

In this case study, the authors describe a classroom redesign at Dartmouth College. The classroom was redesigned as a way to seed innovations in teaching and new ideas on how space influences learning through a partnership incubator for working with faculty. This paper outlines the campus context for how the classroom was redesigned, data collected on its use, and the support structure for faculty.


Proactively Improve Library Experience By Focusing On Hospitality, Micro Skills And Micro Affections, Thomas Paige, David Mac Court, Isabel Espinal Oct 2017

Proactively Improve Library Experience By Focusing On Hospitality, Micro Skills And Micro Affections, Thomas Paige, David Mac Court, Isabel Espinal

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


When Outreach Met Instruction: A Cross-Team Focus Group Success Story, Samantha Walsh, Robin O’Hanlon Oct 2017

When Outreach Met Instruction: A Cross-Team Focus Group Success Story, Samantha Walsh, Robin O’Hanlon

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Don't Reinvent The Wheel: One Community College's Approach To Creating A Rubric, Carrie Salazar Oct 2017

Don't Reinvent The Wheel: One Community College's Approach To Creating A Rubric, Carrie Salazar

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Using An Advisory Board As A Student-Driven Assessment Tool, Cori Wilhelm Oct 2017

Using An Advisory Board As A Student-Driven Assessment Tool, Cori Wilhelm

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Using The Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (If-At) To Assess Student Learning Outcomes, Eugenia Liu Oct 2017

Using The Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (If-At) To Assess Student Learning Outcomes, Eugenia Liu

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Assessment In Parallax: Research Education, User Engagement And Change At Trinity College, Jeff Liszka, Joelle Thomas, Erin Valentino, Rob Walsh Oct 2017

Assessment In Parallax: Research Education, User Engagement And Change At Trinity College, Jeff Liszka, Joelle Thomas, Erin Valentino, Rob Walsh

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Mailchimp Or Mail Chump?, Zoe Weinstein Oct 2017

Mailchimp Or Mail Chump?, Zoe Weinstein

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Saving Space: Collecting Building-Usage Data To Advocate For Student Space In The Library, Curtis Ferree, Jackie Kremer Oct 2017

Saving Space: Collecting Building-Usage Data To Advocate For Student Space In The Library, Curtis Ferree, Jackie Kremer

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


For Your Information: Assessing The First Year Info Lit Transition, Maura Keating, Allison Papini Oct 2017

For Your Information: Assessing The First Year Info Lit Transition, Maura Keating, Allison Papini

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


One Lits: Pioneering A Unified Customer Service Program At Mount Holyoke College's Library, Information, And Technology Services, Chrissa Lindahl, Erin Stalberg Oct 2017

One Lits: Pioneering A Unified Customer Service Program At Mount Holyoke College's Library, Information, And Technology Services, Chrissa Lindahl, Erin Stalberg

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Enhancing Active Learning: Assessment Of Poll Everywhere In The Classroom, Sarah Clark Oct 2017

Enhancing Active Learning: Assessment Of Poll Everywhere In The Classroom, Sarah Clark

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Tell Us What You Really Really Want: More Soap, Katherine Morley, Debra Berlanstein Oct 2017

Tell Us What You Really Really Want: More Soap, Katherine Morley, Debra Berlanstein

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Quick Change: Using Immediate Student Feedback To Enhance Research Instruction, Hilary Kraus Oct 2017

Quick Change: Using Immediate Student Feedback To Enhance Research Instruction, Hilary Kraus

Dartmouth Library October Conference

No abstract provided.


Your Teaching Strategy Matters: How Engagement Impacts Application In Health Information Literacy Instruction, Heather A. Johnson, Laura C. Barrett Jan 2017

Your Teaching Strategy Matters: How Engagement Impacts Application In Health Information Literacy Instruction, Heather A. Johnson, Laura C. Barrett

Dartmouth Scholarship

The purpose of this study was to compare two pedagogical methods, active learning and passive instruction, to determine which is more useful in helping students to achieve the learning outcomes in a one-hour research skills instructional session.