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Chicago—91´«Ã½ Publishing eLearning Solutions announces a new iteration of our popular eCourse/book bundle, . Heidi Buchanan and Beth McDonough will serve as the instructors for a 4-week facilitated eCourse starting on Monday, November 5, 2018.

Meaningful library instruction in 50 minutes? No problem.

Faced with planning your one-shot library instruction, you no doubt feel hard-pressed to squeeze in all your library has to offer plus tips on the research process in a mere 50 minutes. Authentic learning with student interaction may seem unattainable. It’s not. The keys are communicating clearly with the course instructor, developing a realistic plan, and employing effective teaching strategies. With more than 30 years' combined experience in teaching information literacy, Heidi Buchanan and Beth McDonough have designed an eCourse where you will experience effective learning activities yourself and be ready to prepare your own.

Buchanan and McDonough are the authors of the popular . The second edition, published in 2017, offers suggestions of how to incorporate The Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into one-shot sessions. This item includes enrollment in the eCourse along with the print edition of by Buchanan and McDonough.

eCourse outline

Week One: Communication and Collaboration with Course Instructors

• Perceptions and misperceptions
• Conversation starters
• Push back without being pushy
• The instruction interview
• How and when to say NO!

Week Two: Creating a Realistic Plan

• Teaching vs. covering
• Usefulness and relevance to the students
• Threshold concepts
• Ditch the demo
• About learning objectives…
• Timing is everything

Week Three: Active learning strategies

• Online Jigsaw—experience an active learning technique and learn about additional strategies
  • One minute Paper
  • Fishbowl
  • Think-pair-share
  • Gallery walk
  • Concept maps and graphic organizers
  • Case studies
  • Role Play
  • Games

Week Four: Assessment

• Why bother?
• Classroom assessment techniques
• Making use of the data

About the Instructor

Heidi Buchanan is a Research & Instruction Librarian at Hunter Library. Her MSLS is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2000). She is also a co-author of .

Beth McDonough holds an Ed.D. from Western Carolina University and a MLIS from UNC-Greensboro. She is a Reference Librarian/Education Liaison at Western Carolina University. She is also a co-author of .

Registration for this 91´«Ã½ Publishing eLearning Solutions facilitated eCourse, which begins on November 5, 2018, can be purchased at the . Participants in this course will need regular access to a computer with an internet connection for online message board participation, viewing online video, listening to streaming audio (MP3 files), and downloading and viewing PDF and PowerPoint files.

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