Lesson + Study = Lesson Study! Researching learning in the college classroom
Sometimes you find a RIOT topic, and sometimes a RIOT topic finds you. I was jumping around from article to article last week when Michele sent out the latest issue of LOEX and this article caught my...
View ArticleHow College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace
Project Information Literacy Research Report: “Learning Curve: How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace” by Alison Head, October 2012 This report includes data from...
View ArticleRIOT: Threshold concepts and information literacy
Hofer, Amy R., Lori Townsend, and Korey Brunetti. 2012. “Troublesome Concepts and Information Literacy: Investigating Threshold Concepts for IL Instruction.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 12 (4):...
View ArticleDiscussion: Threshold Concepts and Information Literacy – Discussion
We had an interesting conversation about threshold concepts at our RIOT meeting. Meghan posed several questions about the articles she presented, which you can see in her post. The question that...
View ArticleRIOT: It’s Not Just an Event… It’s a Classroom
This is, as usual, a lively month for events at the UT Libraries – I know many of you are organizing events, and PCL events are also part of the vision-in-action of the Learning Commons. This past...
View ArticleDiscussion: One-Shot Library Instruction, does it work?
RIOT began with a round-robin. Roxanne shared a recent “crashing failure.” She worked with a nutrition professor to assign pre-readings on how to write scientific articles. Not many of the students did...
View ArticleRIOT: Does Library Instruction Make You Smarter?
All across UT (and higher education in general), people are attempting to assess student learning and articulate the value of their programs to student success, measured by retention, on-time...
View ArticleRIOT: ACRL Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education
Since March 2013 a task force has been working to update the ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education which, at this point, have been around for almost 15 years. Needless to say, this...
View ArticleDiscussion: A Major Professional Shift, or Comparing the Framework with the...
Cindy led our discussion of this week’s RIOT on the new ACRL Framework for Higher Education with a view to an in-depth discussion open to all Libraries staff coming up this January. Our conversation...
View ArticleOur Partnership with the School of Undergraduate Studies
We have been working closely with the School of Undergraduate Studies (UGS) since it was formed in 2006 and I frequently get questions about our involvement and collaborations. So I decided to blog...
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TLS TIP: BETTER UNDERSTANDING OUR SIGNATURE COURSE STUDENTS
In the fall of 2014, Teaching and Learning Services distributed a test to students at the beginning and, later, the end of their Signature Course about information literacy concepts. A part of the...
View ArticleRIOT Recap – 10/20/15
Krystal’s RIOT enabled us to have a rich discussion regarding the role reading plays in developing student’s information literacy skills while in the library instruction classroom. To be sure, it...
View ArticleRIOT Recap – Feminist Pedagogy
Carolyn led a lively discussion at today’s RIOT based on her reading of Maria Accardi’s Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction and the Library Juice Academy course she attended, led by the author....
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RIOT–May 17, 2016
Instruction for graduate students Janelle and I will discuss our experiences with instruction for graduate students. This sort of sharing is important, since there isn’t a lot of how-to literature out...
View ArticleDART Recap – Authority is Constructed and Contextual
The format for the latest DART session was an open forum to discuss one of the frames in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy, Authority is Constructed and Contextual. While there were not...
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