Mizael and Amber are two CSULB students who are new to the whole research thing. Follow along with them as they learn how to find, evaluate, and use information for their assignments.
SURF is designed to teach you about researching by actually having you do research. We want you use current projects you are working on now.
Mizael and Amber are two CSULB students who are new to the whole research thing. Follow along with them as they learn how to find, evaluate, and use information for their assignments.
SURF is designed to teach you about researching by actually having you do research.
This paper will examine various definitions of learning objects, along with
important characteristics. The paper will discuss applications of instructional
design, learning styles and how learning objects can help address them. Both evaluation and assessment of learning objects are examined, and finally an application of learning objects to online information literacy instruction.
La Trobe University Library: "Design for Learning pilot project- Embedding research/inquiry graduate capabilities in the curriculum.\nFind out more about how the Library can help you support and guide students to begin developing research/inquiry graduate capabilities."
free, on-demand training workshop designed for faculty and doctoral students in library and information science with little or no experience teaching online who wish to develop their skills in teaching online courses
Slightly under a third of academic libraries report that information literacy is included in an institutional mission or strategic plan, the same percentage as in 2004
that libraries are increasingly identified not as a shared cultural resource, but as the office that pays bills for individuals' immediate information needs.
Nor should it be seen as primarily a library concern. In my experience, faculty admire librarians' know-how, but feel this thing we call information literacy—the ability to frame a question, seek information, make informed choices among sources, and use them effectively—is their job.
We tend to think in terms of skills that apply to all knowledge domains, involving dispositions and habits that we feel prepare graduates for civic participation and personal fulfillment. We have a wide-angle holistic view. We take a practical approach: let us show you how to find information on any subject using these search tools and techniques.
Faculty are more likely to think in terms of how using sources plays into the values and traditions of a particular discipline. Historians want students to understand how to interpret primary sources, using other historians' work to put historical evidence in context. Biologists train students in the skill of reading scientific papers, including understanding why each new contribution nests itself in previous work. Psychology professors ask students to design research projects, which includes reviewing related literature.
but in the library, we tend to treat them all as more or less the same task: finding good stuff to get the job done.
We help students develop some all-purpose ways to approach any question, knowing that this will remain an important ability later in life. Faculty in the disciplines may be much more focused on polishing the particular lens through which they help students see the world, but being able to find, sort through, and use information is also very much a part of what they teach.
To understand how important this thing we call information literacy is to higher education, we shouldn't look to strategic plans
To know if it's important, we'd have to look at everyday practice.
Free educational collection of puzzles and teacher-created content from Valve's best-selling game, Portal 2, an engaging 3D puzzle-solving game. Based on Valve's technology, the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker takes place in an environment with realistic physics - a playground rich with opportunities for educational fun.
La Trobe U. Toolkit gives adaptable resources and support to diagnose, teach and evaluate learning related to critical information skills. Includes examples of practice from faculty.