INFORMATION LITERACY AND RESEARCH SKILLS FOR STUDENTS
The Teaching and Learning team (formerly Learning Support) can provide synchronous or asynchronous information literacy instruction sessions for your courses, and can provide guidance on integrating information literacy and active learning into online learning environments. Teaching and Learning librarians will also create customized course research guides, and learning objects that can be integrated into your course on Avenue to Learn.
The Library is your partner in teaching, learning and research.
Vision:
Empower and support all members of the McMaster community in developing the skills necessary for critical thinking, information fluency, and other modern literacies needed to skillfully navigate the complexities of an evolving information landscape.
Mission:
In order to support McMaster University Library’s’ vision of advancing knowledge and discovery, fostering creativity, and building community, the Library’s Teaching and Learning Program seeks to develop critical thinking and support effective contributions to public and scholarly discourse through:
- Providing one-on-one research consultations for students and faculty
- Delivering classroom-based research skills instruction
- Creating learning objects and tools for self-directed learning
- Opportunities to work with and learn from primary sources and historical artifacts
- Teaching use of new tools and technologies as they emerge
- Collaboration with faculty and instructors to develop and implement new approaches to pedagogy
- Outreach and partnership with the broader communities of which McMaster is a part
Information literacy skills are common to all disciplines, and support lifelong learning. They enable learners to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed, and assume greater control over their own learning.
An information literate individual is able to:
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