Student Learning in the Information Age

The author offers an in-depth examination of resource-based learning as an important new paradigm for higher education. This concept shifts the focus from teaching to learning by requiring students to select their own learning materials from a wide range of real world information resources. A resource-based approach helps students assume more responsibility for their own learning. It also creates a strong partnership between faculty members and campus librarians. Breivik highlights examples of more >>

The author offers an in-depth examination of resource-based learning as an important new paradigm for higher education. This concept shifts the focus from teaching to learning by requiring students to select their own learning materials from a wide range of real world information resources. A resource-based approach helps students assume more responsibility for their own learning. It also creates a strong partnership between faculty members and campus librarians. Breivik highlights examples of colleges and universities that are already using this approach successfully and offers a framework to help educators create their own resource-based learning programs. This work will be of significant interest to academic leaders, faculty, and campus information providers."This easy-to-read volume provides the rationale and means to promote and create a successful information literacy program....Especially useful are the nuts-and-bolts chapters on establishing an information literacy program....Perhaps the most imporant aspect of the book is Breivik's savvy approach to the challenges of human resources in and outside the library....With more than twenty pages of appendices, Breivik provides ample information to support any new information literacy endeavor.This volume is an important resource for all academic libraries that are looking at ways to create information literacy programs or to enhance existing instructional programs. Instruction libraries unsure of where to start in the implementation of a new literacy program will be well served by the information found in this book."-College and Research Libraries"Useful to graduate students and faculty."-CHOICE"Patricia Breivik shares her insights and view of the future with us; she also provides guidance on how we can get to that future. What an exciting picture she paints."-Robert L. Caret, President San Jose State University"Breivik's book is a must for faculty, administrators, and information specialists who are truly interested in reforming and improving the teaching and learning process."-Howard L. Simmons, Ph.D. Professor and Coordinator Higher and Postsecondary Education Program"Throughout the book, claims are well supported with examples, research, illustrations, graphs, tables, and charts, and the appendixes provide further documentation. A section of notes follows each chapter and the volume is well indexed."-Library and Information Science Annual..."helps us think more broadly about how librarians, discipline-based faculty, and academic adminitrators can cooperate to advance information literacy as a primary objective of college and university learning."-Dr. Lou Albert, Vice President American Associtation for Higher Education"Student affairs practioners can learn much from this book.... This book should be read by all campus administrators, especially those in student services, who are responsible for developing and enforcing institutional policies for students, faculty, and staff."-Journal of College Student Development..."of great value to academic and support staff who are preparing students for life long learning....Student affairs practitioners can learn much from this book....This book should be read by all campus administrators, especially those in student services, who are responsible for developing and enforcing institutional policies for students, faculty, and staff."-Book Reviews"Breivik recognizes the resource implications and the conceptual implications of her arguments. She writes eloquently on necessary shifts and challenges for students, staff and institution....Breivik presents the report of the American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, giving us a view which is obviously broader based than the university view alone. This is well worth browsing through....I strongly recommend this book to a wide range of academics, administrators and all staff who have a role in supporting student learning and development."-Computers and Educ << less