Table of Contents
But who were the community of practice?
Change of key: change of outlook
Part 1: Collaboration, Curriculum and Courses
Chapter 2: Information literate pedagogy: developing a levels framework for the Open University
The rationale for the IL Levels Framework
Development of the IL Levels Framework
What support might people need to use it?
How we will test it: case studies
Chapter 3: Information literacy in the workplace and the employability agenda
Information literacy in the workplace and employability defined?
Information literacy and the skills agenda
Information needs and sources used
Chapter 4: Information literacy in the context of contemporary teaching methods in higher education
Enquiry based learning and the IL perspective
Dialectic facilitation approaches: an alternative approach to IL development
Part 2: Development, Dialogue and Design
The Enquiring Minds (EM) project
IL, the teaching-research nexus and EBL
The EM People, Diversity & Work pilot
Bringing IL into the Law curriculum
From theory into practice: implementation
IL competences and ‘standards’
IL and the limitations of ‘learning outcomes’
‘Competency standards’ in Law skills assessment
Presentation, reward and ‘communication’ aspects
Competency standards for ‘communication’ and the ‘ethical’ dimension
The ‘ethical’ dimension in ‘communication’
Design of RLOs for information skills
Chapter 7: Spielberg your way to information literacy: producing educational movies and videos
Part 3: Obesity, Overload and Opportunity
Chapter 8: Information literacy and noöpolitics
Information abundance and information obesity
From geopolitics to noöpolitics
A politically aware information literacy education?
Chapter 9: Contemporary technologies’ influence on learning as a social practice
What makes the Internet such a radical and disruptive technology for education?
Social learning is nothing new
The Internet as the modern wireless ‘Penny University’
Knowing stuff: what we now do with information
The cult of the amateur and the rise of the informal learner and expert
Pedagogy 2.0? Opportunities and threats of contemporary social learning
Chapter 10: Understanding the information literacy competencies of UK Higher Education students
Information literacy Testing at MMU – context