Beyond Arcadia: ANCIL at Cambridge
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Beyond Arcadia: ANCIL at Cambridge
Dr Jane Secker & Dr Emma CoonanDr Helen Webster & Katy Wrathall
libraries@cambridge 2012
The Arcadia Programme
Phase 1: May-July 2011
Develop a new, revolutionary curriculum for information literacy in a digital age
http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/projects/information-literacy.html
“Information literacy … empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create
information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world
and promotes social inclusion in all nations.”
UNESCO (2005) Alexandria Proclamation
Aims: in 10 weeks
Understand the needs of undergraduates entering HE over the coming 5 years
Map the current landscape of information literacy Develop practical curriculum and supporting
resources
MethodModified Delphi study • means of obtaining expert future forecasting
• consulted widely in the fields of information and education
Literature review• theoretical overview of the field
• conflicts in terminology, pedagogic approach, values
Expert workshop• method, findings and preliminary curriculum presented
• curriculum refined in light of feedback
Expert consultation
Librarians, researchers, educators, trainee teachers, school librarians
How you teach at least as important as what you teach
Must be embedded into the academic curriculum and disciplines will vary
Must be based on real needs: students are not homogeneous
Must be opportunities for reflection
Our experts said …
Modular, flexibleholistic, embedded,relevant to students
Format and structure of the curriculum
Online / face to faceActive learning: discussion
and reflectionTraining > Teaching Teaching style and
method of delivery
Who teaches?
When?
And don’t forget …
Use of auditsMeaningful assessment
Learning outcomes
How to market IL to different audiences
Assessment
Marketing / hooks
Aligning the curriculum content to discipline specific knowledge, skills and behaviour
Curriculum strands
1. Transition from school to higher education2. Becoming an independent learner3. Developing academic literacies4. Mapping and evaluating the information landscape 5. Resource discovery in your discipline 6. Managing information7. Ethical dimension of information 8. Presenting and communicating knowledge 9. Synthesising information and creating new knowledge10. Social dimension of information literacy
Information literacy is a continuum of skills, behaviours, approaches and values that is so deeply entwined with the uses of information as to be a fundamental element of learning,
scholarship and research.
It is the defining characteristic of the discerning scholar, the informed and judicious citizen, and
the autonomous learner.
ANCIL definition of information literacy (2011)
Phase 2: Oct-Dec 2011
Strategies for implementing the Curriculum for Information Literacy
Dr Helen Webster & Katy Wrathall
http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/projects/strategies-for-implementation.html
Aims - also in 10 weeks
Scope possible implementation strategies What provision already exists? Who might deliver or support ANCIL within an institution? What formats might delivery take? What is needed to support delivery?
Develop resources to support implementation For individual institutions Generic, adaptable resources for any institution
What’s new about the New Curriculum?
It’s a curriculum
It doesn’t belong to any one profession
What’s new about the New Curriculum?
Map of information literacy at Cambridge
What might the curriculum be used for?
benchmarking/diagnostic tool
framework to inform strategy, learning outcomes
and marking criteria
guidance model
teaching resources
audit tool: institutional, faculty/college,
individual
ANCIL
Where to start?!
Institutional Audit tool
Teaching toolkit
Delivery formats
Staff-led Student-led
Subject expertise
Professional expertise
Project outputs:CambridgeRecommendations
ANCIL for Colleges ANCIL for Faculties ANCIL at Cambridge*
Resources (hosted on the ANCIL wiki) ANCIL for supervisors Supervision teaching resources Information literacy First Aid ANCIL for Cambridge libraries ANCIL: the video Librarians in Training workshop Transkills workshop
An Information Literacy Strategy for Cambridge?
Project outputs: other institutions
ANCIL research outputsPhase 1 reports Executive summary, expert consultation report, and theoretical
background Curriculum and supporting documents
http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com/
Phase 2 resources and case studies Case studies - University of Worcester, York St John University Cambridge resources
http://implementingancil.pbworks.com
YouTube Video Search for “ANCIL curriculum”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-V2givIiE