Toolbox of activities, discussion starters, and partner/group work exercises from the University of South Florida's Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence.

Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are learner-centered activities that engage students in learning and yield actionable assessment results. The CATs featured in this book are arranged by what they assess, i.e., prior knowledge and understanding, analysis and critical thinking, synthesis and creative thinking, application, attitudes and self-awareness, and learner reactions. Examples include the minute paper, preconception check, muddiest point, think-pair-share, opinion polls, and chain notes.

This interactive learning module takes students through the process of identifying the differences between primary and secondary sources. The structure of the tutorial consists of four parts. First, students learn the definitions for both primary and secondary sources. Next, the students work through various examples of primary and secondary sources in different academic disciplines at their own pace. In the third part, common mistakes are addressed in “Mythbusters” style.

A website produced by library instructors at Brigham Young University for use in blended learning instruction with First-Year Writing (FYW) classes. Contains five modules: background research, topic development, search strategies, source evaluation, and critical reading. Each module includes two embedded videos. Librarians wanted these videos to be as brief as possible, so each video is limited to two minutes.

Interactive lesson planning tool for identifying the skills and competencies necessary for reading, writing and participating on the web. While it includes basic information evaluation, it goes a lot further to examine the unique aspects of information on the web (e.g. remixing, coding, web design, accessibility, open licensing, etc). There are also a lot of associated lessons that you can use. Many are oriented towards K-12, but the lessons can be remixed and are certainly relevant to higher ed.

The web is a unique terrain, substantially different from print materials. Yet, too often attempts at teaching information literacy for the web do not take into account both the web’s unique challenges and its unique affordances. This book is a practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.

The ETD+ Toolkit is an approach to improving student and faculty research output management. Focusing on the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) as a mile-marker in a student’s research trajectory, it provides in-time advice to students and faculty about avoiding common digital loss scenarios for the ETD and all of its affiliated files. Free training resources on crucial data curation and digital longevity techniques are included across 6 modules.

Across the world, academic librarians work toward developing students’ abilities to effectively find, evaluate, use, and create information. The approach to teaching these lifelong, cumulative skills can be designed in myriad ways throughout our global environment. This work seeks to share individual international perspectives that, through a unique voice, provide clarity toward how information literacy is viewed, taught, conceptualized, and, in general, approached internationally.

Maintained by the ACRL Student Learning & Information Literacy Committee, these resources will guide librarians engaged in the practice of instructional and curricular design through dynamic, responsive content on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

Author Carpentry is a researcher-to-researcher training and outreach program in open authoring and publishing. It was initiated at the Caltech Library to enhance scientific authorship and publishing in the digital age. The aim of Author Carpentry is to promote and support good information handling tools, practices, and skills that help researchers prepare, submit, and publish contributions that add value to the scholarly record and invite others to adapt and build upon.