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2014

Information Literacy

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Re-Thinking Information Literacy Training With Desire2learn Learning Environment And Scorm, Eric A. Kowalik Apr 2014

Re-Thinking Information Literacy Training With Desire2learn Learning Environment And Scorm, Eric A. Kowalik

Eric A. Kowalik

The flipped classroom that started in K-12 has now caught the attention of higher education as a way of encouraging deeper and more meaningful learning for students.
This presentation will demonstrate how, by using an Articulate Storyline SCORM package within the Desire2Learn platform, librarians and instructors flipped the information literacy training session.
A similar version of this presentation was also given at the 2014 Wisconsin Desire2Learn Ignite Regional User Conference in Waukesha, WI.

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Engaging With Research And Resources In Music History Courses, Jennifer Oates Apr 2014

Engaging With Research And Resources In Music History Courses, Jennifer Oates

Publications and Research

With the ever-expanding sea of resources available to students today, it is now more important than ever to teach students how to navigate, assess, and interpret resources. Given the ease of access to information, students tend to seek out the path of least resistance, most often a Google search and/or Wikipedia. Their unfamiliarity with print resources, such as thematic catalogues, means they are missing out on significant music scholarship that is not available online or through Google. Today’s students have grown up searching the internet. The single-search approach of a web search leaves many students confused by terms like …

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Why Go To The Library? Pedagogical Reflections [Poster], Terry Dwain Robertson Feb 2014

Why Go To The Library? Pedagogical Reflections [Poster], Terry Dwain Robertson

Terry Dwain Robertson

Why should Seminary students “go to the library”? Because of the ubiquity of online resources, it is increasingly possible to complete the degrees without setting foot in the building that is full of books. This is so even though many classes require readings or research papers that anticipate the use of the library. Surprisingly, some assessment feedback from students suggests that this mode of independent text based activity is not necessarily appreciated as time well spent. One proposal for responding to this trend reflects on the question of “time.” Time is a constraint of the human condition. We lack the …

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01 01 Unit One Introduction (Reading), Robert Berry Jan 2014

01 01 Unit One Introduction (Reading), Robert Berry

Robert Berry

This is the introductory unit to a course on documents research. Building confidence in documents research—using a wide variety of resources, such as law materials, government patent databases, or library of congress digital collections, to name just a few—increases the chances students will excel in any graduate or professional schools you subsequently enroll in or at any research projects they choose to undertake.

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