LILAC 2014 Posters

Penny Andrew's poster Embedding multiple literacies in a MOOC for professionals caught my eye with its Russian Doll images in relation to  information literacy and multiple literacies. 

Embedding multiple literacies in a MOOC for professionals

The poster is by Penny Andrews, Penny is an an MSc Student at the University of Sheffield. @pennyb The following papragraph from her poster explains the images ...

"Information literacy is the literacy that contains all the other academic literacies. Florence Dujardin @afdujardin originated the idea of a matryoshka doll (set of nested dolls) as a metaphor for this concept" 

From how to why: critical thinking and academic integrity ..

From how to why: critical thinking and academic integrity as key ingredients in information literacy teaching was another poster that caught my eye, this one was from the Artic University of Norway. In their poster they present their plans and purposes with the course and discuss in particular why we consider a shift in focus to be essential.

They say that their "approach differs from many existing resources by our main objective, which is to train the students’ critical thinking in order to enhance their general learning outcome." 

 "The online resource will be launched for beta testing in September 2014, in cooperation with five different departments at our university. After final evaluation, the online course will be available to everyone under a Creative Commons licence." 

I'm a great believer in self-efficacy and believe that if you do not believe in yourself you fail before  you start whereas if you believe in yourself / what you do you can achieve so much more.

Thus the interest in this poster Does information literacy increase a person’s self-efficacy by Geoff Walton, Northumbria  University, geoff.walton@northumbria.ac.uk and Eleanor Johnston, Staffordshire University, e.johnston@staffs.ac.uk

The quesution is part of a study which aims to establish whether the IL programme 'Step-Up to HE' contributes directly to participants’ self-efficacy – a key programme objective (Taylor, 2012). I'll be interested in the findings.