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Using a Professional Continuing Medical Education Simulation to Engage Undergraduate Medical Students in Information Literacy
Download2011-04-01
Campbell, Sandy, Johnson, Brettany, Storie, Dale, Hayward, Robert
Objective: 1. To engage students by delivering an Evidence Based Medicine assignment in a system that simulates a professional medical continuing education system that many participants will use in residency and practice. 2. To convert a paper-based “searching for and evaluating evidence”...
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2015-09-09
Within our field, and more widely, there is a way of thinking that equates effective teaching with effective entertaining. This way of thinking can be referred to as a “discourse of edutainment.” It underpins some of the publications and conversations that encourage librarians to make their...
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Research is a verb: Exploring a new information literacy-embedded undergraduate research methods course
Download2010-05-01
Polkinghorne, Sarah, Wilton, Shauna
This paper introduces a potential solution to widespread and longstanding concerns about undergraduates’ research, writing, and critical thinking skills: a new activity-based, discipline-specific research methods course. This paper details the course's design and explores the course's...
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2011
The digital revolution changes the way we teach and learn. This paper introduces the concept of a hybrid course structure. It aims to show the benefits of blended learning and describes the course design used by the Bibliothèque Saint-Jean, University of Alberta. It is hoped this approach will...
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2013-07-17
This meta-narrative highlights some challenges, reminders, and solutions around collecting usable information for training library support staff as scripted information literacy instructors. The poster describes survey and focus group design considerations to yield useful results (some of which...
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2011
Storie, Dale, Campbell, Sandy, Hayward, R., Johnson, B.
The objective was to convert a paper-based seeking and evaluating evidence assignment to an interactive electronic format. In addition, the aim was to increase medical student engagement with the assignment by simulating a continuing medical education environment that many students will encounter...
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Instruction for Information Literacy in Canadian Academic Libraries: A Longitudinal Analysis of Aims, Methods, and Success
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Tan, Maria, Julien, Heidi, Merillat, Shannon
The study reports a survey of information literacy instruction practices in Canadian academic libraries. Results indicate that formal instruction is offered by 89% of respondents, a minority of which articulate formal instructional objectives or work in libraries with full-time instructional...
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Insights from the performing arts for information professionals who teach
2014-10-23
This presentation critiques the discourse of teacher-as-entertainer and examines five elements from the performing arts that can provide meaningful insights for information professionals who teach: physicality, defining the situation, extemporizing, scripts, and acting.