UWA IL strategy development

This is another catch-up post from conferences I've been to. This is one from the Lifelong Learning conference in Yeppoon, Australia, held in June 2008. Pam Barnett, Ruth Browne, Carol Hicks, Philomena Humphries and Felicity Renner's presentation described their initiative at the University of Western Australia to develop a strategy for information literacy. The UWA strategic directions statement on information literacy is here. The reference librarians at UWA developed a forum which:
- examined the literature & other developments by national associations etc.
- discussed the role of the librarian, particularly in rtelation to teaching
- different approaches to delivering IL education
They decided that an online approach was pragmatically a good approach to deal with the large number of students (material could be reused and it avoided time consuming face to face), and responding to students' liking of online.
Other aims had been equity of access and 24/7 - so online was seen as fitting with that. There are compulsory first year programmes ("IRIS"), the subject of another presentation at the conference.
A discussion document has been drawn up by the Forum, which is leading to an action plan for IL across the university. They aim to identify "best practice" guidelines; secondly they want access to information skills training for all students; and thirdly they want to develop material for postgraduates.

There is information on IRIS at http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/for/students/iris
Photo by Sheila Webber: Rydges resort, Yeppoon, Australia where the conference was held.

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Talk from US educator North Lamar on his teaching in Second Life and IBL

On 28 August at 12 noon Second Life (SL) time (this is 8pm UK time) North Lamar will talk about and lead discussion on his teaching activity in SL, and also its relationship with Inquiry Based Learning (IBL). North (Joe Sanchez in real life) has been teaching in SL for several semesters and is also a leader in the Educators’ Coop. This is the latest in the series of discussions on Infolit iSchool in the Centre for Information Literacy Research Series.
The session, which lasts an hour, will take place on Infolit iSchool, in the virtual world of Second Life. You will need to have a SL avatar to attend. The SLURL is http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/152/200/21/ (nb you must have the SL browser installed to be able to use this). Note that SL time is the same as US Pacific time.

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Information Literate in Second Life

I gave two presentations at the Creating Knowledge conference last week. One of them was reporting, for the first time, some results of my students' investigation into information behaviour in Second Life. Here is the presentation from Slideshare: at the actual conference I gave a little bit more information about the results. First year students on our BSc Information Management programme interviewed people in Second Life and analysed the results in relation to "Real Life" models of information behaviour. The presentation starts with information about the class, and about Inquiry Based Learning, as well as giving some information about Second Life.

Information Literate in Second Life

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