Information Literacy and Student-centered Learning

Coalescing thoughts - What is the relationship between information literacy and student-centered learning?  Typically the need for information literacy is associated with information ubiquity. However, doesn't active learning require students to engage with materials to create meaning rather than passively receiving information? Would not this, at least sometimes, involve locating, and certainly evaluating and applying information to learn? While I see in the literature references to needing to teach students information literacy skills in a student-centered way, I haven't as of yet seen mention of a relation between the developments of the two concepts. More to come on this...

New Article Coming Out in C&RL News

Some Purdue colleagues, Tomalee Doan and Catherine Fraser Riehle, and I have had an article accepted at College and Research Libraries (C&RL) News that discusses our work with an initiative going on Purdue to help faculty develop their courses to be more student-centered. The initiative is called, Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT), and provides teachers with a team comprised of staff from Purdue's Information Technology at Purdue (iTAP) and the Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE), as well as a faculty member from the Libraries. Library faculty view the project as a great opportunity for embedding information literacy into courses because we are there when teachers are making curricular and pedagogic decisions, and therefore open to solutions they may not have thought of yet! Definitely a win-win!

Library 2.012 Conference Session

I will be presenting this Wednesday at the Library 2.012 Coference at 12 noon (EST) with Diana Wakimoto from UC East Bay and Ginny (Virginia) Tucker, who teaches at San Jose State, about figuring out the publishing and presenting opportunities from your doctoral thesis work.