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Direct linkHicks, Alison; Sinkinson, Caroline – Research in Learning Technology, 2015
Personal learning environments (PLEs) and critical information literacies (CILs) are two concepts that have been presented as responses to the challenges of the rich and complex information landscape. While both approaches support learners' critical engagement with new information environments, each was developed within a different field. This…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Information Literacy, Learner Controlled Instruction, Independent Study
Schneider, Sandra Beth – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2015
This article presents an autoethnographic and theoretical reflection on my justifications for the use of "neoliberal deconstruction" in the undergraduate social foundations classroom. I engage the reader in a discussion concerning the need to make neoliberal agendas, as they pertain to corporate reform in education, salient to students.…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Undergraduate Study, Foundations of Education
Deitering, Anne-Marie; Gronemyer, Kate – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
Undergraduate students are expected to find, evaluate, and use peer-reviewed or scholarly literature, but they rarely learn about the process of creating new knowledge or the roles the literature plays in the work of scholars. A desired outcome of undergraduate education is the understanding that knowledge is created, evolving, and contextual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
Leibiger, Carol A. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2011
Googlitis, the overreliance on search engines for research and the resulting development of poor searching skills, is a recognized problem among today's students. Google is not an effective research tool because, in addition to encouraging keyword searching at the expense of more powerful subject searching, it only accesses the Surface Web and is…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Information Literacy, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Problem Based Learning
Nutefall, Jennifer E.; Ryder, Phyllis Mentzell – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
Faculty and librarians agree on the qualities of a good research question. However, in an exploratory study, they differed on when students should develop their research question. While librarians stated that students should develop their question early, first-year writing faculty advocated for delaying the development of the research question.…
Descriptors: Student Research, Librarians, Library Instruction, College Faculty
Marfleet, B. Gregory; Dille, Brian J. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2005
The "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education" generated by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL 2000) provides a plausible set of pedagogical goals to guide the construction and implementation of an undergraduate research methods course. We argue that the context of the undergraduate methods…
Descriptors: Assignments, Courses, Political Science, Research Methodology
