You know the Miami 2020 Plan is in place and guiding
curriculum development and institutional priorities. It highlights learning and discovery,
inquiry-based experiential learning, immersion of faculty and students in
research and creative scholarship, global engagement, and e-learning.
What may be news is that the Association of College and
Research Libraries (ACRL) has a task force in place to revise its 2000
standards. Discussion of the draft:
Framework
for Information Literacy for Higher Education will continue at the American Library
Association annual meeting, June 2014.
The revision shifts emphasis to metaliteracy and threshold concepts (knowledge
practices or abilities). Today’s
students are creators and curators of information, expected by employers to
collaborate in teams to produce digital projects. Your Gardner-Harvey Librarians have the
privilege of facilitating a
Discussion
Forum for the national membership of ACRL’s instruction section this
June. The new framework will be
implemented in 2015.
What does this mean
for me and how will it impact the courses I teach?
You may wish to redesign one or more of your course research
assignments in the next year. One of the
Gardner-Harvey librarians would be pleased to assist you in this effort or
provide metaliteracy
instruction
in a format that meets your students’ needs, whether first-generation,
non-traditional, international…
Librarians are glad to offer in-class instruction or
Learning Management System Embedded Librarianship or Research
Consultations. Simply start the
conversation by contacting us this summer or next fall. We are happy to collaborate with you to
strengthen students’ understanding of issues and skills related to the complex
information ecosystem.
