Civically Engaged and Inclusive Pedagogy: Facilitating a multidisciplinary course on human trafficking

Inclusive Data Visualisation: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Data are important sources of information and knowledge. To explore a more inclusive means of communicating data, a team composed of seven researchers in the UK from different disciplines conducted a series of workshops: the first to share stateof-the-art data visualisation techniques in various disciplines and to identify data visualisation challenges; the second to extract universal principle...

The Impact of Student-Centered Pedagogy on Training in a Pediatrics Course

Introduction: The most important change in medical education is a shift from didactic teacher-centered and subject-based teaching to the use of interactive, problem-based, student-centered learning. Student-centered approach is a teaching approach t that encompasses replacing lectures with active learning, integrating self-paced learning programs and cooperative group situations, ultimately hol...

Academic literacies: a pedagogy for course design

This article examines how research findings from the field of academic literacies might be used to underpin course design across the broad curriculum of higher education. During the last decade this research has unpacked the complex relationship between writing and learning, and pointed to gaps in students’ and tutors’ understanding of what is involved in writing for assessment. The article tak...

Adapting to survive: facilitating recovery after human trafficking

Online inclusive pedagogy: A call-and-response dialogue on digital storytelling

We propose digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool for online Library and Information Science education that recognizes diversity and fosters reflection among students and teacher. In a course titled Documenting Diverse Cultures and Communities, students contemplated their role as future information professionals and produced a short digital story dealing with community, archives, and histor...