Sustainable embedded academic literacy development: the gradual handover of literacy teaching

Virtual Embedded Librarianship for Information Literacy Teaching

This paper, reports on the planning and preliminary results of an action research project undertaken for the redesign of an online distance learning information literacy (IL) module on the basis of virtual ‘embedded librarianship’. The research project, which followed an action research design, brought together the IL module coordinator and an Academic Liaison Librarian, working at different in...

Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Literacy in Iran

Cognitive Development: The Missing Link in Teaching Information Literacy

They’ll do a database search, and they will invariably choose the first five articles in the list. Doesn’t matter if they’re good or bad, relevant or not. They use the Web for everything. They have no idea that there are better sources out there to use. They want to find that one article that’s going to write their paper for them. They don’t realize that they have to read and synthesize and the...

Literacy - the first step to Academic Inclusion

Teaching Molecular Three-dimensional Literacy*

An understanding of three-dimensional structure/function relationships is increasingly important to modern biochemistry and molecular biology. Not only are the overall “folds” that illuminate evolutionary relationships uncompromisingly three-dimensional but so, too, are the critical details at active sites. Fortunately, most protein and nucleic acid structures are now readily available on the I...