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 CILIP IL Group’s School Rep, Rebecca Jones, is putting out a call for support with providing school pupils with access to advice and resources so that they can compete in Teen Tech, a national STEM and innovation competition (All information about the competition is on this website). The competition is aimed at pupils from Yr7-13
Tuesday, September 8th, is International Literacy Day 2015, the aim of which is to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies. On International Literacy Day each year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reminds the international community of the status of literacy and adult learning globally. The theme of International Literacy
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Further Education is a rapidly changing world and the events organised by the Council of Learning Resources in Colleges (CoLRiC) have an important part to play supporting service managers. This year’s events, hosted in London and Birmingham, were entitled “The Edge”, with a programme that reflected the “can do” attitude of presenters and delegates alike.
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group would like to thank everyone who responded to our recent call for applications to join the committee. We had a huge response and are delighted to announce the following colleagues have now joined the committee: Treasurer: Elaine Sykes Elaine is Team Leader for Business Control at Liverpool John Moores University.
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We’re recruiting! The CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) Committee has two new vacancies, which offer a great opportunity to become more involved with the work of the Group, learn new skills, network, and help advocate for information literacy. All roles are voluntary and, if you’re not already a member of ILG, you would need to join in order to
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In case you missed it, a very interesting post was published on the CILIP website yesterday, about how copyright and information literacy overlap. It was written by the Information Literacy Group’s Chair, Dr Jane Secker, and Chris Morrison from the University of Kent. It has already received lots of buzz on Twitter! Jane comments: “It
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group ran a prize draw at the recent CILIP Conference. Entrants were filmed giving their top information literacy teaching tip. Thank you to everyone who entered. Congratulations to Vicky Wilkie from the University of York, who wins an iPad mini. Vicky says “I had a wonderful time at the CILIP conference
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The CILIP Information Literacy Group offers up to £20,000 to fund high quality research through an annual bursary scheme. Bids of up to a £10,000 maximum are invited. This funding is to support practitioners (who are ILG members) to support well-framed research. Methodological strategies can be either qualitative or quantitative, or both. Approaches can
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Following on from two excellent events in Manchester and London, The CILIP Information Literacy Group are reprising the “Developing a Blended Learning Skills Programme” workshop, this time in Belfast. The event will be delivered by Jennie Blake and Jade Kelsall, who worked together on the design and development of the University of Manchester’s award-winning My Learning Essentials programme. Event:
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