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Digital Information Literacy Toolkit

This guide is for faculty seeking to add Digital Information Literacy Teaching and Learning to their courses.

In this Guide

Purpose of the Guide

This "toolkit" directs faculty to resources in support of student learning of essential skills and practices of Digital Information Literacy. Visit other pages to learn about:

LEADS Alignment

Digital Information Literacy aligns best with the following strategic areas:

  • Learning: Promote digital technologies for engaged learning and value-added opportunities for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and collaborators.
  • Learning: Infuse dynamic learning approaches, environments and student-centered pedagogy (e.g. competency-based, project-based, high impact practices, etc.) in the core curriculum. Enhance the goals of fostering creative expression, critical inquiry, and interdisciplinary learning.
  • Discovery: Foster innovative teaching, applied learning, and transformative research that exemplifies discovery, as shown by experimenting, researching, drafting, writing, prototyping, rehearsing, etc.

Metrics to measure how the initiative aligns with these strategic areas include:

Quantitative

  • The number of courses validated in the Essential Studies Program's new Digital Information Literacy special emphasis area.
  • The number of faculty members who attended the librarian-led Digital Information Literacy workshop, and the number of faculty members who consulted with the librarians outside the workshop.
  • The number and variety of projects students produce due to their participation in Digital Information Literacy courses.

Qualitative

  • How faculty incorporate what they learned at the Digital Information Literacy workshop into their teaching.
  • The types of assignments faculty assign associated with Digital Information Literacy in their courses (gathered in course validation requests).
  • How faculty address the Digital Information Literacy guidelines and outcomes in their courses gathered in course validation requests).
  • Possibly a showcase of student projects that result from their participation in Digital Information Literacy courses.