IMPACT Learning: Librarians at the Forefront of Change in Higher Education

IMPACT Learning: Librarians at the Forefront of Change in Higher Education describes how academic libraries can enable the success of higher education students by creating or partnering with teaching and learning initiatives that support meaningful learning through engagement with information. Since the 1970s, the academic library community has been advocating and developing programming for information literacy. This book discusses existing models, extracting lessons from Purdue University Libraries' partnership with other units to create a campus-wide course development program, Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT), which provides academic libraries with tools and strategies for working with faculty and departments to integrate information literacy into disciplinary courses. Describes how academic libraries can help students succeed through partnering with teaching and learning initiativesHelps teachers and students deal with information in the context of a discipline and its specific needsPresents an informed learning approach where students learn to use information as part of engagement with subject content INDICE: Part 1: Fostering meaningful learning through librarianship 1. Introduction 2. From information literacy to informed learning 3. Effecting change through teaching and learning initiatives Part 2: Faculty development at Purdue University: A case for fostering meaningful learning 4. Purdue Libraries involvement in IMPACT 5. Librarians as faculty developers 6. Leveraging educational theories 7. Higher education instructors' views of information literacy 8. Relationships - The true outcome of involvement in IMPACT Part 3: Re-envisioning information literacy education 9. Applying lessons learned in IMPACT to other learning contexts 10. Four essentials for working with departments and faculty to integrate information literacy 11. Developing librarians to support learning initiatives 12. The way forward (conclusion)

• ISBN: 978-0-08-102077-7
• Editorial: Chandos Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés