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Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry Based Learning

  • Published: August 2009
  • Region: World
  • 200 Pages
  • Woodhead Publishing Ltd

This book:

- is written by two leading experts in information literacy
- draws on extensive personal experience of training learners and trainers in information literacy and information retrieval
- uses examples of best practice from the educational context and the workplace
- enables the trainer to understand the learning process and techniques that help the learner learn
- provides guidelines for teaching e-literacy via face-to-face, blended and e-learning methods

This book is aimed at those who teach or train people who need to develop systematic ways of using information sources and tools to help them participate in inquiry based learning. Whether at school, college, university or work people need to use the wealth of information around them effectively. They need to find things out, assemble, process, evaluate, manage as well as communicate information. Increasingly a fundamental part of being information literate and an independent learner is being e-literate. This book helps the trainer understand the learner and use appropriate methods to help them explore and engage with being information and e-literate. It also helps the learner to be conscious of what it means to be information and e-literate and to use information effectively.

Part 1 The context
– introduction;
- learning and information literacy;
- the learner as a physical being;
- the learner as a thinker;
- the learner as a sense-maker;
- the learner as a social being.

Part 2 Teaching interventions – the interventions cover the following aspects of information literacy:
- Learning intervention
1 – knowledge of the ‘information landscape’;
- Learning intervention
2 – knowledge of the learners’ own information needs and identifying the knowledge base that the learner wants to develop;
- Learning intervention
3 – knowledge of how to use the tools and sources in the information landscape;
- Learning intervention
4 – knowledge of how to use the information that has been found;
- Learning intervention
5 – enhancing information literacy in the workplace; a holistic approach.

Part 3 – Conclusion
– summarises the key issues raised in the book.

Dr. Mark Hepworth is a senior lecturer at Loughborough University in the Department of Information Science. He teaches information literacy, information retrieval, the development of user centred information services. His research interests include: people’s information behaviour, the information needs of specific groups of people, information literacy and capability building in the development, academic and non-academic contexts.

Dr Geoff Walton is a Subject and Learning Support Librarian and Research informed Teaching Project Co-ordinator at Staffordshire University supporting the Health and Sciences subject areas. Geoff teaches information literacy and study skills, at all levels, to Psychology and Sport & Exercise Science students. He recently completed his PhD at Loughborough University where he researched and developed a new model of e-learning for delivering information literacy to undergraduate students. In 2005 he was awarded a Learning and Teaching Fellowship by Staffordshire University in recognition of his excellent contribution to teaching and learning.

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