"It's in the Syllabus" - New Article Now Available

My new article with Jake Carlson (U. of Michigan), Maribeth Slebodnik (U. of Arizona), and Bert Chapman (Purdue U.):

“It’s in the syllabus”: Identifying information literacy and data information literacy opportunities using a grounded theory approach.

can be dowloaded for free for the next 50 days from:

http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1RNVZMYb61ggX

In this research, we examined undergraduate and graduate nutrition science and political science syllabi using a grounded theory approach to determine how information literacy and data information literacy are addressed through departmental curricula. Findings suggest that using information and data are related to other concepts emphasized in the curriculum, such as developing a professional identity or adopting various ways of thinking associated with the field.

Full citation: 
 
Maybee, C. Carlson, J., Slebodnik, M. & Chapman, B. (2015). “It’s in the syllabus”: Identifying information literacy and data information literacy opportunities using a grounded theory approach. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41(4), 369-376.

Social Media in a Statistical Literacy Course - New Article Out!

My colleagues and I have a new article out in a special issue of the Journal of Faculty Development. The theme of the special issue is: Social Media in Pedagogy and Practice: Networked Teaching and Learning:

Article title: Statistical Literacy Social Media Project for the Masses
Authors: Gundlach, Ellen; Maybee, Clarence; O'Shea, Kevin
Volume 29, Number 2, May 2015 

Abstract: This article examines a social media assignment used to teach and practice statistical literacy with over 400 students each semester in large-lecture traditional, fully online, and flipped sections of an introductory-level statistics course. Following the social media assignment, students completed a survey on how they approached the assignment. Drawing from the authors’ experiences with the project and the survey results, this article offers recommendations for developing social media assignments in large courses that focus on the interplay between the social media tool and the implications of assignment prompts.

USQ Salon: Clarence Maybee interview 21 April 2015

 

Published on Apr 22, 2015

How IMPACT works? reparing Today’s Learners: The Role of Information Literacy in the Adoption of Innovative Pedagogies. Assistant Professor Clarence Maybee speaks with Professor Helen Partridge (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Pro Vice-Chancellor (Scholarly Information and Learning Services) 21 April 2015 (6mins 6secs)*