Integrating Information Literacy into Blackboard: Building Campus Partnerships for Successful Student Learning

Jackson, Pamela

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2007.03.010

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“…21 In her suggestions for exploiting recent advances in Blackboard technology to deliver information related to library resources and services, Pamela Alexondra Jackson from San Diego State advocates a number of outreach initiatives that include the creation of "student homerooms" by librarians. 22 Ultimately, when students have access to most of the library's resources through the use of computers, both in and outside of the library, offering instruction in a similar manner speaks to the expectations that have already been established by the ease of accessing sources online.…”

Section: Harris Learning Communities 14mentioning

confidence: 99%

Communities as Necessity in Information Literacy Development: Challenging the Standards

Harris

2008

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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Section: Harris Learning Communities 14mentioning

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Communities as Necessity in Information Literacy Development: Challenging the Standards

Harris

2008

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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“…Building campus partnerships and campus-community partnerships for improving the literacy of students, faculty, and practitioners has been one scheme to better integrate library resources and services with other means of knowledge provision by deploying learning management systems (Jackson, 2007), building foundation course portals (Hiscock & Marriott, 2003), sharing experience with search engines (Mager, 2012), and through the inclusion of librarians in collaborative teaching (Kuhlthau, Maniotes, & Caspari, 2007). A best practice case in the medical field is reported from an information literacy framework in Scotland (Craig, 2009).…”

Section: Improving the Literacy Of Medical Students 480mentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving the Literacy of Medical Students: A Collective Knowledge Management Effort by the University for Development Studies Medical School in Ghana and the Community Surrounding the University

Alu¹,

Bardy²,

Dadzie³

2017

UCER-B

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The purpose of the study is to show how a collective knowledge management effort was undertaken in a low-tech environment yields outcomes that benefit all participants of the effort-students and staff of a medical school, the medical profession in the community, paramedics, and the community at large. It also demonstrates that acquainting students with knowledge management skills early and improving their information literacy. If they can effectively manage their knowledge resources in close connection with all members of the society around their school, the benefits will be improving academic efficiency, diagnostic effectiveness, and feedback from medical institutions and patients. The study descends from the Medical Library Association's definition of health information literacy. It uses a survey at the University for Development Studies (UDS) in Tamale, Ghana, to examine the information and literacy skills of its medical students. Also, it explores the level of awareness of the various databases to which the university library is subscribed, the benefits of information literacy skills, and the challenges that students face in identifying and using information sources. From there, the paper explores avenues for improving the situation of the students of which the optimal is conjoining resources in and outside the medical school. Linking faculty, students, and medical professionals in the university's local environment in a collective endeavour for enhancing the literacy skills proper can result in a shared inventory of tools that help to discriminate, which information is needed and which is redundant. From this foundation, students would develop abilities to understand knowledge management and know how to apply it in their specific field of professionalization. The sample was selected from doctoral students in a single institution in the field of education. Also, the sample was self-selected and relatively small. There is a caveat, therefore, for generalizing the findings to other doctoral student populations. This study is useful to health administrators and faculty members, because issues concerning the importance of information literacy skills do not only apply to UDS, Tamale, but to other medical institutions in Africa as well. The study provides university libraries with reliable data on the need for and the effectiveness of information literacy instruction and it enables the librarians to strategize how to improve the instructions they provide. The medical profession highly depends on the adequacy of diagnosis and therapy selection, and for this, any medical professional must be capable to access and use state of the art information sources. There are only a few studies around the topic of medical literacy and almost none for developing countries. But the results of the other studies corroborate the findings of this paper to a great extent.

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“…6 In particular, a LMS can be used to scaffold Information Literacy (IL) instruction in course websites and incorporate information literacy activities throughout subject-specific courses. 7 Integrating information literacy into LMS courses can be an effective way to improve library instruction and student learning. 8 Despite the affordances of incorporating their services and resources, university libraries are rarely integrated into their institution's LMS due to a number of institutional factors.…”

Section: Chris Leeder Is a Doctoral Candidate In The School Of Informmentioning

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Faculty Usage of Library Tools in a Learning Management System

Leeder¹,

Lonn²

2014

CRL

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To better understand faculty attitudes and practices regarding usage of library-specific tools and roles in a university learning management system, log data for a period of three semesters was analyzed. Academic departments with highest rates of usage were identified, and faculty users and nonusers within those departments were surveyed regarding their perceptions of and experience with the library tools. Librarians who use the tools were also surveyed to compare their perceptions of faculty tool and role use. While faculty survey respondents showed high levels of positive perceptions of librarians, they also exhibited low awareness of the library tools and little understanding of their use. Recommendations for encouraging wider adoption and effective usage are discussed.igher education institutions have rapidly and widely adopted the e-learning technologies variously called courseware, course management systems, virtual learning environments, or learning management systems (LMSs) in recent years.1 These online systems allow coordination, distribution, and retrieval of online course materials and facilitate online communication between instructors and students and among students themselves.2 Effective use of a LMS has been shown to improve the quality of teaching and learning and enrich the educational experience of students.3 The communication tools in LMSs can encourage active engagement in classes by students and promote constructivist rather than instructivist styles of learning. 4 For academic libraries, incorporating library resources and services into a LMS offers the opportunity to improve library visibility, increase relevance with students, and strengthen relationships with faculty.5 Embedding library resources in LMSs can also help to increase the availability of those resources to students, encourage their use, and encourage interaction with librarians. 6 In particular, a LMS can be used to scaffold Information Literacy (IL) instruction in course websites and incorporate information literacy activities throughout subject-specific courses.7 Integrating information literacy into LMS courses can be an effective way to improve library instruction and student learning. Despite the affordances of incorporating their services and resources, university libraries are rarely integrated into their institution's LMS due to a number of institutional factors. Librarians are infrequently involved in the administration and management

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Integrating Information Literacy into Blackboard: Building Campus Partnerships for Successful Student Learning

Cited by 60 publications

References 10 publications

Communities as Necessity in Information Literacy Development: Challenging the Standards

Communities as Necessity in Information Literacy Development: Challenging the Standards

Improving the Literacy of Medical Students: A Collective Knowledge Management Effort by the University for Development Studies Medical School in Ghana and the Community Surrounding the University

Faculty Usage of Library Tools in a Learning Management System

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