Michael Flierl, Learning Design Specialist, and Clarence Maybee, Information Literacy Specialist, presented at the fall meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on October 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. Their presentation was part of a panel on the library impact on student success chaired by Damon Jaggers from Ohio State University. The panel also more…
Libraries faculty and staff uphold the Libraries’ information literacy mission statement through various instructional and research efforts.
Clarence Maybee, Information Literacy Specialist, presented a poster with Lisa Zilinski from Carnegie Mellon University at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting on data informed learning. Based on informed learning (Bruce, 2008), data informed learning shifts the focus from acquiring generic data-related skills to learning how to use data in disciplinary contexts. The aim of this project more…
Those who attend or work at a university will often joke about the differences between the subcultures and epistemological approaches associated with their school’s many colleges and majors. Science students, for example, sometimes joke about liberal arts students being flakey or ambiguous in their thinking; liberal arts students may joke about science students being rigid more…
