Want to use OERs but have no idea where to start? Our web team has been working in partnership with CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching) to bring you our brand new OER section. We’ll be covering the whole OER lifecycle, giving you advice and examples of how to find, use, create […]
The definitions & models section of the website has been completely restructured and updated to reflect the latest thinking around information literacy, and related literacies. A New Curriculum for Information Literacy (ANCIL), digital literacy, metaliteracy and web literacy are covered for the first time. Information on more established definitions and models, such as the SCONUL Seven
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group is sponsoring this teachmeet, which will be held at the University of Derby’s Buxton campus on 25 June 2015, 12:00 – 15:40. Sign up here. The teachmeet aims to bring together library staff from across the education sectors to: Explore the common theme of library induction. Facilitate the sharing of innovation and good
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InformAll, are running a webinar on Digital Literacy for Online Collaborative Design on Monday 11 May, from 16:00 to 17:00 GMT. The webinar will be led by Dr Mark Childs, from Coventry University. The event is free to join, and further details can be found here: http://www.researchinfonet.org/infolit/ridls/informall-webinars/collab-design/ . Description (from the InformAll Website): This webinar offers educators an
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Emma Coonan as the new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Information Literacy from June 2015. Emma is the Information Skills Librarian at UEA (University of East Anglia), Norwich. She holds an MSt and a PhD in literary theory and an MSc in Information and Library Management, and
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Workshop: Developing a Blended Learning Skills Programme Venue: Alan Gilbert Learning Commons, University of Manchester Date: Monday 15th December, 2014 This event was run by Jennie Blake and Jade Kelsall from the University of Manchester Library, home of the award-winning My Learning Essentials programme. View the Storify from the day. We started with an overview
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We have launched a new webpage on information literacy in the Further Education (FE) sector. Written by the IL Group committee member for FE, Nicola Scott, the page gives an overview of the sector’s needs for information literacy and contains a sample strategy for an FE specific information literacy curriculum, as well as a piece
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‘Web Science: How the Web is Changing the World’ starts on the 6th October 2014 through the FutureLearn platform. The Web has changed the World since its invention by Tim Berners-Lee 25 years ago. From education to the economy, everything has been changed by the digital revolution. As a result, the relationship we have with information
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The University of Manchester Library have launched an innovative suite of interactive e-learning resources covering a variety of information literacy and academic skills topics, which are freely available for use under a Creative Commons licence. These online resources are highly interactive, using diverse and practical learning activities throughout each resource to provide frequent opportunities for
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BCS – the Chartered Institute for IT – have recently launched their Digital Literacy for Life programme with a remit to engage with government, schools, employers and other organisations to develop and deliver digital literacy education, policy and research. The BCS provide a definition of digital literacy as being: ‘Those capabilities that mean an individual
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