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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

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_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: ACRLframe@lists.ala.org

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?

tjacobson@albany.edu

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.

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smart-talk

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