Lindsey McLean | Clinical Training Associate III – Instructional Designer
Lindsey McLean was the Instructional Design Librarian at Loyola Marymount University’s William H. Hannon Library and co-founder of CORA. She buillt digital learning objects to support the information literacy learning outcomes in Loyola Marymount University’s core curriculum including the Lion’s Guide to Research and the Library; Research Strategies; and the RADAR Challenge. Lindsey earned her MLIS in 2012 from UCLA and her professional and research interests include user experience, instructional design, critical information literacy instruction, and online learning.
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Lesson Plans Contributed
This assignment was designed to incorporate information literacy concepts into an in depth writing assignment. By only focusing on a total of one outside source at a time, students are required to do deep research to find the one source that they can engage with on the level required for a good essay. Requiring a small number of sources also allows the students to practice incorporating outside material into their own writing and thinking and allows the instructor to see progress in this area.
Exercise One:
Choose a phenomenon, situation, or event that relates to family life in…
In this sequence of activities, students will learn how to identify scholarly sources using three pronged test: 1) Is the source written by a researcher or academic 2) Is the source published in a scholarly book or peer reviewed journal, and 3) Does the source have an extensive bibliography. They will then be asked to find one scholarly book and one scholarly article on a general topic.
Learning Activities
Scholarly source pre-test
- Description of activity: Students will complete a three-five question true/false pretest. Each question will present the student with a…
The primary purpose of a literature review is to provide a rationale for your proposed research question(s). You need to locate your research question within the broader conversation of a particular discipline. A review of literature should present a synthesis of existing theory and research literature that argues for the usefulness of the research question. The process of constructing a literature review acquaints the researcher with the studies already done in a particular area and allows the researcher to build/extend existing knowledge and enter into the discourse of a particular field…