...Kimberly T. Foster Purpose Student engagement can be a difficult thing to nurture in an online, asynchronous course. This paper aims to try to encourage a student interaction in such a course, one that additionally is not a requirement for any major or general education plan, the author argues...

... literacy Student engagement Common reader program Learning community Many college freshmen do not make the necessary academic, social, psychological and/or behavioral adaptations that enable them to persist in college and return for their second year. According to the National Center...

... and a range of assessment techniques to evaluate and improve teaching practice. Findings ARCS is valuable for improving student engagement during IL instruction. The authors suggest best practices for learning about and integrating the model and propose instructional strategies that align...

...Marianne Foley; Katherine Bertel Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how librarians at the State University of New York College at Buffalo used iPads during one class session of a semester-long library instruction course to increase student engagement, energize the traditional...

...Kevin Michael Klipfel Purpose – The purpose of this case study is to measure the impact of authenticity – the operation of one’s true self in one’s daily activities – on student engagement and learning in the context of information literacy instruction. Design/methodology/approach...

... Curricula University libraries Librarians Information literacy 3.0 credit course Credit‐bearing instruction Upper‐level Interdisciplinary Student engagement Assessment Teaching librarians As librarians offer an increasing number of information literacy (IL) credit courses and develop...