Teaching Information Literacy Online

Virtual Embedded Librarianship for Information Literacy Teaching

This paper, reports on the planning and preliminary results of an action research project undertaken for the redesign of an online distance learning information literacy (IL) module on the basis of virtual ‘embedded librarianship’. The research project, which followed an action research design, brought together the IL module coordinator and an Academic Liaison Librarian, working at different in...

Games for Teaching Information Literacy Skills

Admittedly, this is a silly joke, but it represents a creative way to introduce search terms into a class discussion or simply get a chuckle from students in an information literacy course. The joke is short and can be placed on cover sheets for returned graded assignments. It does not detract from the class, and is one example of humor, which is an active learning technique used as part of the...

Learning Objects as Tools for Teaching Information Literacy Online: A Survey of Librarian Usage

Lori Mestre is Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champign, e-mail: [email protected]; Lisa Baures is Public Services Librarian/College of Education Liaison at Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, e-mail: [email protected]; Mona Niedbala is Education & Curriculum Materials Librarian at University of Rhode Island, e-mail: [email protected]...

Teaching Government Information in Information Literacy Credit Classes

Learning from Other's Mistakes - One Approach to Teaching Information Literacy

Everyone in the academic community is today confronted with an unprecedented problem. One click of the mouse can provide a student with enough source material to construct a doctoral thesis. Thus, the problem is no longer to locate the relevant material; today the difficulty is in separating the wheat from the chaff, or a more apt analogy, finding the few gold nuggets in the mountains of dross....