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Introduction
Informed Learning Applications: Insights from Research and Practice (2019)
  • Kim L. Ranger
Abstract
Informed learning practice encompasses a range of approaches including collaboration between librarians and classroom instructors (whose primary responsibility is teaching regularly-scheduled courses) to construct connections between informed learning theory, information literacy practice, and disciplinary scholarly products to foster reflective and deep engagement with information. Informed learning differs from other approaches to information literacy in that the focus is on both the process of learning disciplinary content and the knowledge gained as a result of interacting with information (information literacy experiences) while seeking, evaluating, and citing. Reflection, transformation, and relationship are vital elements of informed learning, and scholarly communication is integrated into the process, not simply an end product. As librarians foster informed learning, they expand the relationships between instructors, student learning, and the world of information.
Keywords
  • informed learning,
  • information literacy
Publication Date
2019
Editor
Kim L. Ranger
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Series
Advances in Librarianship
ISBN
9781787690622
Citation Information
Kim L. Ranger. "Introduction" Informed Learning Applications: Insights from Research and Practice Vol. 46 (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rangerk/31/