“Here be Dragons”: A Wayfinding Approach to Teaching Cataloguing

Teaching cataloguing requires instructors to present and integrate information about the variety and complexity of the field while providing an adequate theoretical foundation for practice. A problem solving pedagogy called “wayfinding” that focuses on instruction about ways to navigate the structural features of rule sets is described. It enables students to learn not only about common rules but also about less well known cataloguing problems (“dragons”), embedding this knowledge in the theoretical foundation of the rule sets underlying cataloguing practice. It provides both pragmatic and pedagogical benefits that mitigate differences between face-to-face and distance learning environments.     

The effects of inquiry-based information literacy instruction on memory and comprehension: A longitudinal study

How information literacy instruction affects students' learning has been a concern for many librarians and teachers. This study examines the effects of six-year integrated information literacy instruction on elementary students' memory and comprehension of subject content through inquiry learning and also focuses on the moderating factor of students' academic achievement levels. The subjects were 75 students participating in the study from the time when they entered elementary school. The school adopted information literacy instruction and integrated it into various subject areas using the framework of inquiry learning, for example, the Super3 and Big6 models. A total of 11 inquiry learning projects were implemented from Grade 1 through Grade 6. The results showed that inquiry-based integrated information literacy instruction helps students memorize facts and apply new concepts in the subject content. In general, the progress level in comprehension was higher than in memory learning for the six-year integrated information literacy instruction. Regardless of students' prior academic achievement levels, if they devoted their efforts to inquiry processes, their fact memorization and conceptual understanding of subject content improved. Low-achieving students displayed the most progression in both memory and comprehension learning, compared to their medium- and high-achieving peers. This study underscores the importance of information literacy instruction in students' learning.     

Teachers and librarians collaborating on inquiry-based science instruction: A longitudinal study

The qualitative, longitudinal study suggests how teachers and librarians learn to collaborate on inquiry-based science lessons that link science, information literacy, and structured English immersion standards for Latino elementary students. Teachers and librarians in the study received extensive professional development training about teacher and librarian collaboration (TLC), information literacy, inquiry-based science, as well as language and culture. In addition, expert peer mentors provided background information to teachers and librarians, as well as modeled high end TLC recommended by school librarian professional guidelines. Although increased interest and high motivation are generated by TLC, findings indicate that considerable time and experience are needed to prepare teachers and librarians to collaborate on instruction. Study results also indicate that there is an apparent lack of experience with inquiry-based science, particularly in schools with a culture of direct instruction. The study highlights teachers' lack of awareness of librarians' role as instructional partners. Greater communication between the professions is urged if TLC is to be successfully implemented as a way to bolster student achievement and stay updated in important fields, such as science, where instruction appears to be lagging behind.     

“基于展品的问题、项目双驱动制学习”教学模式实践——以“玩具总动员”之“齿轮传动”课程教案为例

合肥市科技馆“玩具总动员”教育项目对接小学科学课标中的“技术与工程”领域,以学生感兴趣、同时也给予其陪伴的玩具作为切入点。本教案将“基于展品的问题、项目双驱动式学习”作为主要教学模式,结合科技馆展品以及教育活动资源,引导学生综合运用学科核心概念、跨学科概念和科学实践解决问题,在潜移默化中体会工程技术对解决实际问题的重要性,以及工程与技术的创新发展对社会的影响。     

Inquiry-based civil discourse education

Course: Civil discourse, argumentation, debate, persuasion, political communication

Objectives: This unit activity will help students build an understanding of civil discourse and its function in society. Students will: (1) increase their capacity to examine arguments critically, (2) enhance their own ability to self-reflect critically, and (3) improve their ability to engage in civil discourse. This activity will employ inquiry-based learning strategies to apply students’ understanding of civil discourse in a dialogue with the broader campus community by partnering with campus media to develop and publish original opinion-editorial pieces.     

基于建构主义的学科信息素养整合教育

针对高校学生存在信息素养认知模糊、总体综合能力偏低的问题,从《文献检索与利用》与学科课程《房地产市场营销》整合入手,采用基于建构主义的教学模式Big6进行学科信息素养整合教育。Big6模式旨在培养学生信息问题解决能力和批判性思维能力,学生可以在运用Big6过程中构建其自身的信息素养。     

Using collaborative teaching and inquiry project-based learning to help primary school students develop information literacy and information skills

Information literacy and information technology (IT) skills have become increasingly important in today's knowledge society. Many studies have shown that students from primary school to postgraduate lack crucial information literacy and IT skills, hence there is a need for an effective pedagogical approach that will develop these skills. This study investigated the effect of combining a collaborative teaching approach with inquiry project-based learning (PjBL) on the development of primary students' information literacy and IT skills. Students in a Hong Kong primary school completed two inquiry-based group projects. A collaborative teaching approach involving three teachers in different subject areas (general studies, Chinese, and IT) and the school librarian was adopted in guiding students through the two projects. Results indicate that this program had a positive impact of on the development of different dimensions of the students' information literacy and IT skills.     

Raising awareness of campus diversity and inclusion: Transformationally teaching diversity through narratives of campus experiences and simulated problem solving

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Courses: Organizational Communication, Intercultural Communication

Objectives: This activity encourages students to learn collaboratively about diversity through the sharing of student experiences; deepen and complicate their understanding of organizational diversity; and enhance their ability to apply course material to increasingly complex organizational environments.     

从“探究”到“实践”:探究式教学法的内涵、本质与发展

本文通过解读探究的内涵与过程、探究式科学教育的本质特征、实践与探究的关系,深入分析探究式教学在近半个世纪的演变历程,以及发展出的各种教学模式。说明在演变的过程中,探究式教学的实质并没有发生改变,也不受教育场域的影响。多层次的探究法、5E/6E学习环模式、基于模型的探究、论证式探究、项目化学习等多种教学模式各有侧重、各有优势,但都遵循以学生为中心的原则,关注学习的过程,适用于任何深度和广度的学习过程。无论是正式还是非正式教育环境中,教师理解探究与实践的本质更有助于提升教育质量和水平。     

ORCID在机构知识库建设中的应用研究

[目的/意义]研究者唯一标识符是解决机构知识库(IR)作者名称歧义问题的重要途径。通过研究近年来最受关注的新型研究者唯一标识符ORCID在IR中的整合应用,构建基于iAuthor的IR整合方案,以期对国内IR的可持续发展提供借鉴。[方法/过程]通过文献调研和ORCID在各个领域的应用实践案例分析,为IR解决名称歧义问题、构建作品认领机制、完善科研评价与管理找到新的途径。[结果/结论]ORCID在各种IR系统的整合案例展现出较好的应用效果,为IR有效管理研究者及其学术资源、帮助科研机构进行学术绩效评估、实现成果自动推送、与更多的数据系统关联等长期可持续发展问题提供了较好的解决方案。结合国内实际,基于iAuthor构建IR与ORCID的技术整合方案。     

Connecting Autoethnography with Service Learning: A Critical Communication Pedagogical Approach

Course: Small Group Communication

Objectives: Students will apply small group communication principles to a service learning project and learn how autoethnography is a means of writing reflexively about their experiences. Specifically, students will do so by (1) applying their understanding of oppression to their own lives, (2) analyzing how their community experiences relate to other experiences in their lives, (3) evaluating power relationships, and (4) creating a coherent piece of writing that reflects their learning about power in society.     

A study of clinical questions posed by hospital clinicians.

OBJECTIVE: This article presents the results of complementary research studies on the behaviors of hospital clinicians in asking clinical questions and the relationship between asking of questions, outcome of information searches, and success in problem solving. METHODS: Triangulation in research methods--a combination of mailed questionnaires, interviews, and a randomized controlled study--was employed to provide complementary views of the research problems under study. RESULTS: The survey and interviews found that clinical problems (concerned mainly with therapy and equipment or technology) were expressed as statements rather than questions (average number of concepts = 1.7), that only slightly more than half (higher for doctors) of problems could be solved, and that the majority of clinical questions were not well formed. An educational workshop however improved clinicians' formulation of questions, but the use of structured prompting was found to improve building of hypotheses in the doctors' group without training. The workshop also improved satisfaction with the obtained information and success in problem solving. Nonetheless, for both the experimental and control groups, more structured and complete questions or statements did not mean higher success rates in problem solving or higher satisfaction with obtained information. CONCLUSION: The triangulation methods have gathered complementary evidence to reject the hypothesis that building well-structured clinical questions would mean higher satisfaction with obtained information and higher success in problem solving.     

Understanding Information Behaviour: How Do Students and Faculty Find Books?

Faculty and students at University College London (UCL) were polled online in November 2006 as part of a wider investigation into the impact of e-books in UK higher education. One of the survey questions probed the strategies that members of the academic community use to identify the conventional printed books that they need for work, study, or leisure. This article reports on a quasi-experimental statistical investigation of the survey findings for this single question. Multivariate data analysis suggests that book discovery is very highly structured, with gender, subject discipline, and academic status offering powerful predictors of certain underlying behavioural strategies. A model of book discovery strategies is developed and this is used to help segment the survey population into those with high or low levels of dependence on formal library systems or nonlibrary-based solutions. The paper concludes with a discussion of some of the practical implications of these findings for librarians, publishers, and booksellers.     

Challenging neoliberal justification for labor exploitation through the application of critical communication pedagogy

This activity elucidates a critical and pragmatic means by which students and instructors can examine the practice of labor exploitation by neoliberal corporations. By employing critical communication pedagogy (CCP), instructors and students can learn about the ways that corporations actively steal wages from their employees and communicatively justify this theft through the ethic of individualism. In so doing, corporations break the social contract and inculcate employees to believe not in collectivism and social responsibility, but instead only in the logic of the free market. Thus, employees internalize the idea that earning at a level below what is desired is the fault of the individual and not the fault of the corporation. Employees learn to absolve corporations of any wrongdoing. Students and instructors will challenge this ideology and practice by employing the tenets of CCP to recognize and respond to labor exploitation.

Courses: Business and Professional Communication, Professional Speaking, Instructional Communication, Critical Studies/Critical Theory in Communication

Objectives: In this two-day activity, first, students will learn about critical communication pedagogy (CCP) and how they can apply it to respond to hegemony. Second, students will learn about the concept of labor exploitation that they may face in their future careers. Third, students will apply CCP to analyze and respond to the ways in which corporations justify labor exploitation through their communicative practices, equipping students to push back against labor exploitation in their future careers.     

Must change, will change: Process re-engineering in publishing

Publishers need to adopt a more structured approach to changing their processes, based on the proper understanding of existing processes. Without an understanding gained through careful workflow analysis, there is a serious risk that an apparently minor “improvement” in one department will have an entirely unanticipated and perhaps disastrous impact somewhere else. A structured approach can minimize such risks. Address for correspondence     

Learning to use the Internet as a study tool: a review of available resources and exploration of students' priorities

BACKGROUND: The Internet is a valuable information tool, but users often struggle to locate good quality information from within the vast amount of information available. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to identify the online information resources available to assist students develop Internet searching skills, and to explore the students' priorities in online guides. METHODS: A qualitative approach was adopted with two phases. The first was a structured search of available online study skills resources. The second comprised 10 group interviews with a total of 60 students at all stages of five undergraduate health and social care related courses at a UK university. RESULTS: The study found that there were good online guides available, but that, perversely, the better guides tended to require the best searching skills to locate them. A few students were enthusiastic about using online support, however the majority felt that if they had the skills to locate such resources they wouldn't use a study guide to improve these skills, and if they did not have the skills they would not think of using an online guide to develop them. CONCLUSIONS: Students wanted assistance when they had problems or questions, rather than sites that offered structured learning experiences. Personal support rather than virtual support was also considered to be most important to the students in this study.     

高职《成本会计》教学反思

《成本会计》课程是会计专业的一门理论性和实践性都很强的专业核心课程,在会计专业课程中起着重要的作用。高职成本会计教学的主要目标是向社会培养一些具备会计技能的实践技能型人才,但是成本会计课程体系复杂,高职学生基础薄弱,掌握起来有一定的难度,如何根据成本会计的特点教好成本核算内容,是作为会计专业教师一直思考的问题。我认为,在教学中应根据高职学生的特点,采取有效的教学措施来提高教学水平,让高职学生牢固掌握成本核算知识。     

Extending understanding of service-learning projects: Implementing place-based branding for capstone courses

Numerous institutions encourage service-learning, but few have extended beyond nonprofit realms to include (1) larger budgets, (2) multi-faceted volunteer/staff/leadership constraints, and (3) elevated expectations with immediate impact on full towns. This study explores how strategic communication students construct knowledge in branding and relationship building while solving real-world problems. To do so, this research examines service-learning, place-branding projects for senior capstone students. Specifically, students in two courses developed and partially implemented strategic place-branding plans for two struggling towns. This work details the approach and, through quantitative and qualitative methods, extends understanding of service-learning outcomes for students, faculty, the university, and communities.