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Education Northwest provides high-quality research, technical assistance, professional development, and evaluation services that address the most pressing education and youth-services needs in their region and across the country.

Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning

Written by Barbezat and Bush, this book discusses how contemplative pedagogy is more than a trendy new teaching technique. It is a way for instructors to empower students to integrate their own experience into the theoretical material they are being taught in order to deepen their understanding; help students to develop sophisticated problem-solving skills; support students' sense of connection to and compassion for others; and engender inquiries into students' most profound questions.

 

 

Understanding by Design

This book, written by Wiggins and McTighe, explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning.

Reading, Research, and Writing: Teaching Information Literacy with Process-Based Research Assignments

Explores how reading and the writing process are as important as and critically connected to the research process. Chapter five has the greatest emphasis on information literacy. Provides examples of instructional support to facilitate conversations between librarians and faculty, as well as ways librarians can work directly with students.

Data Information Literacy

The working space for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded research project investigating data information literacy (DIL) needs of e-scientists. With the continued evolution of technology driven research or "e-science" impacting the skills necessary for effective data management and curation, a curriculum designed to effectively prepare the next generation of scientists for the dynamic nature of research becomes necessary.

ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Toolkit

The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Toolkit is a professional development resource that can be used and adapted by both individuals and groups in order to foster understanding and use of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The toolkit contains four modules: Finding Time to Engage the Framework, The Framework's Structure, Foundations of the Framework, and Strategies for Using the Framework.

Global Perspectives on Information Literacy: Fostering a Dialogue for International Understanding

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.