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Against the wind: Challenges and barriers to Canadian academic librarians’ instructional practices
Download2017-01-01
Polkinghorne, Sarah, Julien, Heidi
Helping students learn how to navigate information—and misinformation—is as important as ever. The Canadian information literacy (IL) landscape continues to evolve along with rhetorical, theoretical, and contextual developments, such as the new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher...
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2014
Barton, S., Pijl-Zieber, E. M., Grypma, S.
Despite political support for the baccalaureate degree as entry to practice, historical concerns over nursing education - the value of education versus service, professional versus vocational identity and theoretical versus practical knowledge - persist. The authors challenge the notion of a...
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2016
This chapter describes a visualization of the main elements in play when we search for information. The chapter describes how this visualization can be used to start classroom conversations around how social, political, and economic systems influence how people create, organize, find, and gain...
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Spring 2016
Historically, health professions education has focused on content knowledge. However, there has been increasing recognition that there is a need to focus on the thinking processes required of future health professionals. To this end, educators in the health professions have looked to the concept...
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2009
Hoffman, Cameron, Polkinghorne, Sarah
How are information literacy practitioners discussing Wikipedia? Just as important is this question: what do these discussions say about us as teachers? This article will consider these questions and reflect on their implications for our work.
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2012
Introduction: The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta is large and diverse. Liaison librarians at the Health Sciences Library decided in late 2009 to undertake a system-wide evaluation of the information literacy (IL) instruction being delivered to the Faculty. The...
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Evidence based medicine (EBM) simulation: a novel and practice-relevant approach to teaching real-time literature searching to emergency medicine residents
Download2020-06-01
Colmers-Gray, Isabelle, Ha, David J, Tan, Maria C., Dong, Sandy L
Introduction: Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and literature searching skills are competencies within the Emergency Medicine (EM) residency curriculum. Previously in our residency program, a librarian-taught literature searching instruction comprised a classroom-based overview of search engines....
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Fall 2011
With many current initiatives to promote information literacy, it is necessary to assess the state of information literacy instruction in secondary school and the factors influencing information literacy. Teachers have the opportunity to instruct information literacy (IL) yet students enter...
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Examining the Resident-Medical Student Shadowing Program: a concurrent triangulation mixed methods randomized control trial
DownloadSpring 2011
The Resident-Medical Student Shadowing Program is a novel program in which first-year medical students shadowed a first-year resident during their clinical duties. It was developed to enhance the preparedness of medical students for clinical training. To examine the program’s effectiveness, a...