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Envisioning the Possibilities: Educational Trends and Information Literacy in
Academic Libraries
Trudi Jacobson
Head, Information Literacy Department
University at Albany
Albany NY, USA
Let’s Explore• Metaliteracy
• MOOCs
• Digital badging/micro-credentialing
• ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for
Higher Education
Horizon Report for Higher Education 2016
Horizon Report
Selected Trends
• A culture of innovation
• A shift to deeper learning approaches
Selected Challenges
• Blending formal and informal learning
• Improving digital literacy
• Competing models of education
Horizon ReportSpanish Language Version
http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2016-nmc-horizon-report-HE-ES.pdf
Metaliteracy
#metaliteracy
“Metaliteracy empowers learners to participate in interactive information environments, equipped with the ability to continuously reflect, change, and contribute as critical thinkers.”
(Jacobson and Mackey, 2013, p. 86)
Metacognition
8http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The
_Thinker,_Auguste_Rodin.jpg
“cognition about
cognition or thinking
about one’s own
thinking…”
(Hartman, 2002)
Horizon Report
Selected Challenges
• Informal learningo Self-directed
o Curiosity based
o Life experiences
• Competing models of educationo Alternative delivery models
o Assign value to wider range of learning activities
10
“What, if anything,
can stop the
MOOC?”
Creative Commons
licensed picture at
Giulia Forsythe on
Flickr.
Empowering Yourself in a Connected
World
Empowering Yourself as a Digital Citizen
MOOC
Connectivist MOOC
http://metaliteracy.cdlprojects.com/index.html
MOOC Talk
Coursera MOOC
Coursera MOOC Intro Video
Metaliteracy YouTube Channel
Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative
17
Canvas MOOC: Empowering Yourself
as a Digital Citizen
Digital BadgingAlso known as micro-credentialing
Badges in Games and Apps
• FourSquare
• UnTappd
• Call of Duty
• GemCraft
• Audible
• Fitness apps (Preva,
Fitocracy)
Image Source: Ben Risinger, CC BY 2.0
The Metaliteracy Badges
Metaliteracybadges.org
Master Evaluator Badge
Digital Citizen Badge
http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework
Frames listserv: [email protected]
Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education
Threshold Concepts
Threshold Concepts
Threshold Concepts Transformative
Integrative
Irreversible
Bounded
Troublesome
IL Threshold Concepts
• Authority is Constructed and Contextual
• Information Creation as a Process
• Information Has Value
• Research as Inquiry
• Scholarship as Conversation
• Searching as Strategic Exploration
Frame
Threshold Concepts
Dispositions
Knowledge Practices
Habits of mind
Behaviors
demonstrating
understanding
Underpinning ideas
Build on Relationships
Pixabay
Thank you!Questions?
BibliographyAmerican Library Association. (1989). Presidential
Committee on Information Literacy. Final Report. Chicago:
American Library Association.
Hartman, Hope J. (2002). Metacognition in Learning and
Instruction: Theory, Research and Practice. London:
Springer.
Head, Alison. (2013). “Project Information Literacy: What
Can Be Learned about the Information-Seeking Behavior of
Today’s College Students?” Proceedings of the ACRL
National Conference, Indianapolis, IN, pp. 472-482.
BibliographyHofer, Amy, Lori Townsend, and Korey Brunetti. (2012).
“Troublesome Concepts and Information Literacy:
Investigating Threshold Concepts for IL,” portal, 12 (4), pp.
387-405.
Jacobson, Trudi E. and Craig Gibson. (2015). “First Thoughts
on Implementing the Framework for IL,” Communications in
Information Literacy, 9 (2), pp. 102-110.
BibliographyJacobson, Trudi E. and Thomas P. Mackey, “Proposing a
Metaliteracy Model to Redefine Information Literacy,”
Communications in Information Literacy, 7 (2) 2013, pp. 84-
91.
Mackey, Thomas P. and Trudi E. Jacobson. (2011).
“Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy,” C & RL,
72 (1), pp. 62-78.
Mackey, Thomas P. and Trudi E. Jacobson (2014).
Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower
Learners. Chicago: Neal-Schuman.
BibliographyMarzal, Miguel Angel and Elvira Saurina. (2015).
“Diagno ́stico del Estado de la Alfabetizacio ́n en
Informacio ́n (ALFIN) en las Universidades Chilenas,”
Perspectivas em Cie ̂ncia da Informac ̧a ̃o, 20 (2), pp.58-78.
Meyer, Jan H. F., Ray Land, and Caroline Baillie, eds. (2010).
Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning.
Rotterdam: Sense.
New Media Consortium. (2016). NMC Horizon Report. 2016
Higher Education Edition.
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-
higher-education-edition/
Bibliography
Sims, Zach. (2015). "Learning Real Life Skills That Matter"
(email interview), by Sarah Evans, Kristine Lu and Alison
Head, Project Information Literacy, Smart Talk Interview, no.
22. http://projectinfolit.org/smart-talks/item/142-zach-sims-
smart-talk
Singly, Emily. (2014).“How College Students Really Do
Research: Findings from Recent Studies,” American
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students-really-do-research-findings-from-recent-studies/