EDUCAUSE Quarterly Articles and Information Literacy and Fluency

In order to evaluate student opinion as well as the impact on students of an active learning methodology of two face-to-face presentation styles, during a 50-minute session of library research skills, participants attended either a traditional presentation or a modified one, incorporating the use of the PRS. The Personal Response System is a wireless technology in which students, equipped with clickers, respond to a variety of questions posed by the librarian in the course of the presentation. Both types of sessions, offered by the same librarian, included the same research skills content.  Created for the purpose of evaluating various aspects of the library presentation, a questionnaire completed by all students was analyzed.  In the evaluation, the PRS group not only indicated a greater enjoyment of the session but found the presenter to be well organized.  The authors also discuss aspects of using clickers versus employing a traditional classroom setting.

All of us bear responsibility for learning to be net savvy and supporting the members of our campus communities in the same lifelong process.

Answering calls for change entails meaningful assessments of technology-enabled learning.

Technology and the way information is created, used, and disseminated have changed, as has the definition of "net savvy"

Faculty and librarians partner to embed personalized library assistance into online courses.

Literacy today depends on understanding the multiple media that make up our high-tech reality and developing the skills to use them effectively.