Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry-Based Learning

Zusammenfassung This book is highly beneficial to 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. This book helps the trainer understand the learner and use appropriate methods to help them explore and engage with being information and e-literate.

Autorentext

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. Geoff Walton is a Subject and Learning Support Librarian at Staffordshire University supporting the Health and Sciences subject areas. He has particular responsibility for Sport and Exercise and that of Psychology. He is also currently a PhD student at Loughborough University where he is researching and developing 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.

Klappentext

Of interest to 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, this book helps the trainer understand the learner and use appropriate methods to help them explore and engage with being information and e-literate.

Inhalt

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.