Information Literacy Research class

I don’t blog too much about my classes, as I think it is fair on students to talk about them too much on a public blog like this. However, I’ll say a little bit about my new Information Literacy Research class, which started up last week. The aim for students is to deepen understanding of information literacy and of research, and the assessment consists of a seminar paper and a small group project in information literacy. There are weekly seminars. These focus on particular aspects of research (e.g. particular research approaches - such as grounded theory - or methods - such as interviewing) and also involve discussion of information literacy research (both previous research, and the research the students are doing for their projects). Several researchers, from inside and outside the Department, will be coming along to talk. From the Department’s (and my) point of view, it is also deepening our research-led activity.In the first session the students (there are about 10 of them, mostly Masters students, but including two PhD students) shared their experience and ideas about information literacy and about research. On the right is one of the posters produced from this discussion; one group’s thoughts on interesting aspects of information literacy.