From Quest to Conquer: Traversing General Education at a Diverse Alaskan University to Integrate and Assess Transferable Information Literacy Skills in Foundational Courses
The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is an open enrollment university that offers vocational, academic, and professional degrees in a northern region. UAA serves a culturally and demographically diverse population. Given this diversity, students display varying levels of information literacy (IL...
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ftboapojs:oai:boap.uib.no:article/2469 2023-05-15T15:02:59+02:00 From Quest to Conquer: Traversing General Education at a Diverse Alaskan University to Integrate and Assess Transferable Information Literacy Skills in Foundational Courses Bjartmarsdóttir, Anna Mole, Deborah L. 2016-12-22 application/pdf https://noril.uib.no/article/view/2469 https://doi.org/10.15845/noril.v8i1.258 eng eng University of Bergen Library https://noril.uib.no/article/view/2469/2215 https://noril.uib.no/article/view/2469 doi:10.15845/noril.v8i1.258 Copyright (c) 2016 Anna Bjartmarsdóttir, Deborah L. Mole http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 CC-BY-NC Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education; Vol 8 No 1 (2016): Creating Knowledge VIII - Special Issue; 3-8 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2016 ftboapojs https://doi.org/10.15845/noril.v8i1.258 2021-09-29T22:33:52Z The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is an open enrollment university that offers vocational, academic, and professional degrees in a northern region. UAA serves a culturally and demographically diverse population. Given this diversity, students display varying levels of information literacy (IL) competencies. Library Professors Anna Bjartmarsdóttir and Deborah Mole partner with faculty teaching composition and communication courses to create increasingly sophisticated and transferable IL learning opportunities. Strategies include: assessing students’ IL competencies; creating engaging activities; integrating IL throughout the semester; developing reflection opportunities to reinforce IL skills. UAA librarians, partnered with faculty, integrate and scaffold IL activities in foundational GE courses to develop increasingly sophisticated, transferable IL skills and knowledge practices. From team-based learning application exercises to workshops for teaching assistants, students learn how creativity partnered with initiative has helped to integrate transferable IL skill education at this diverse arctic university. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Alaska Bergen Open Access Publishing (University of Bergen Library) Anchorage Arctic Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education 8 1 3 8 |
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The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is an open enrollment university that offers vocational, academic, and professional degrees in a northern region. UAA serves a culturally and demographically diverse population. Given this diversity, students display varying levels of information literacy (IL) competencies. Library Professors Anna Bjartmarsdóttir and Deborah Mole partner with faculty teaching composition and communication courses to create increasingly sophisticated and transferable IL learning opportunities. Strategies include: assessing students’ IL competencies; creating engaging activities; integrating IL throughout the semester; developing reflection opportunities to reinforce IL skills. UAA librarians, partnered with faculty, integrate and scaffold IL activities in foundational GE courses to develop increasingly sophisticated, transferable IL skills and knowledge practices. From team-based learning application exercises to workshops for teaching assistants, students learn how creativity partnered with initiative has helped to integrate transferable IL skill education at this diverse arctic university. |
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From Quest to Conquer: Traversing General Education at a Diverse Alaskan University to Integrate and Assess Transferable Information Literacy Skills in Foundational Courses |
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From Quest to Conquer: Traversing General Education at a Diverse Alaskan University to Integrate and Assess Transferable Information Literacy Skills in Foundational Courses |
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From Quest to Conquer: Traversing General Education at a Diverse Alaskan University to Integrate and Assess Transferable Information Literacy Skills in Foundational Courses |
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