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The abilities to
are among the earmarks of the educated 21st century world citizen.
Many educational institutions are moving from content-driven teaching to student-centered learning approaches in an effort to produce intellectually nimble graduates capable of self-directed learning across the lifespan. This migration will make it increasingly important to provide learners with opportunities to actively engage the information environment as a formal part of their curriculum. The explosion in the fields of publishing and broadcasting and the growth in networked computing are resulting in increased difficulty for content experts to "cover" a discipline's content in their curriculum. This, in turn, generates a need for greater emphasis on inquiry-based methods, developing learning contexts and environments that facilitate access to knowledge bases in the service of solving problems and constructing personal and group knowledge.
Curriculum reform and information and technology literacy
Reinventing
Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities
The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University
Information
Literacy as a Liberal Art
by
Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes, from Educom Review,
Volume 31, Number 2
From
Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education
By Robert B. Barr
and John Tagg, from Change, November/December 1995.
Six
Frames for Information Literacy Education: a conceptual framework for interpreting
relationships between theory and practice.
By Christine Bruce, Sylvia Edwards, and Mandy Lupton.
Enhancing Student Learning
College of Arts & Sciences, UW
Information
Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Being Fluent with
Information Technology
Committee on Information Technology Literacy, National Research Council
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Foundations Courses – Enhancing Introductions to Majors
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Summary: Enhancing Student Learning
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Information
Literacy: The Library Connection
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The Odegaard Writing & Research Center
a collaborative innovation from the UW College of Arts & Sciences and the University Libraries
Catalyst
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Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology, UW Office of Educational
Partnerships and Technology