Name: Watch this Space: Emerging Trends in Credit Bearing Information Literacy Courses
Start: 2019-10-17T11:00:00-0400
End: 2019-10-17T11:50:00-0400

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Watch this Space: Emerging Trends in Credit Bearing Information Literacy Courses

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Library credit courses have traditionally approached teaching information literacy by focusing on the academic research process. This process includes learning library-related skills, such as finding and evaluating sources found in library databases and catalogs. However, there has been an increasing momentum behind the idea of de-centering the library from information literacy instruction and focusing on skills and concepts that explore information literacy outside of the library setting.

This panel presentation will explore how several academic librarians are pushing the boundaries on information literacy instruction in the credit-bearing setting in the areas of content, grading, assignments, and pedagogy. Classes discussed will include:

*An introductory face-to-face course that incorporates critical information literacy, critical pedagogy, open pedagogy, and Wikipedia-based assignments

*An introductory online course that challenges students to be agents of social change and incorporates open pedagogy, problem-based learning, and un-grading

*An upper-level course that explores fake news, junk science, and fact-checking through the lenses of cognitive biases and logical fallacies

*An upper-level discipline-specific course that incorporates entrepreneurial pedagogy and non-traditional research assignments

Speakers

Hu Womack

Instruction & Outreach Librarian, Wake Forest University

Hu Womack is an Instruction and Outreach Librarian at Wake Forest University. He is the library liaison to the departments of Communication and Sociology and teaches credit-bearing information literacy courses and co-teaches first-years seminars. He is also an Academic Advisor.

Kyle Denlinger

Digital Pedagogy & Open Education Librarian, Wake Forest University

I'm the eLearning Librarian at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University, where I teach an online information literacy course, collaborate with faculty on digital pedagogy projects, and support the work of students and faculty in my assigned departments.