I recently saw a very interesting case study of information literacy in a blog I follow, but before I tell that story, I need to provide a little background first.
About a month ago I attended two information literacy events at Purdue University: the first was a day-long workshop by Ross Todd, from the library school [...]
A couple of weeks ago our campus hosted a guest speaker who gave a presentation on assessing critical thinking skills, especially in the context of general education. (This was part of an ongoing project on our campus to reform our general education curriculum and move more in the direction of assessment of learning outcomes.)
The presentation [...]
There’s been another 10-librarian pileup on the ILI-L in the last couple of days concerning Wikipedia. This kind of thing happens every few months on ILI-L: someone starts it by reporting a funny story about Wikipedia, or asking how others use (or don’t use) it in our teaching, or what [...]
