Teaching information literacy using the short story

Teaching Information Literacy in Nursing Using Blended Learning Pedagogy

Information literacy is a crucial skill for nurses to retrieve, judge, and provide appropriate information to patients and their caregivers. This study aimed to develop a blended course to cultivate nursing students’ informatics competency. This was a three-semester study including a development of the course, pilot-test and modification of the course design, and final implementation of the mod...

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...

Teaching Government Information in Information Literacy Credit Classes

Cognitive Development: The Missing Link in Teaching Information Literacy

They’ll do a database search, and they will invariably choose the first five articles in the list. Doesn’t matter if they’re good or bad, relevant or not. They use the Web for everything. They have no idea that there are better sources out there to use. They want to find that one article that’s going to write their paper for them. They don’t realize that they have to read and synthesize and the...