Founding date: 2002-07-01
Director: Pat Davitt Maughan, Project Manager
Description: Information and research based learning has the potential to reinvigorate undergraduate education. Successful implementation requires attention be directed toward developing students' abilities to thrive in this type of environment, supporting faculty exploration of new teaching approaches in the classroom and online, and providing institutional resources to tranform course curriculum while supporting collaboration. Key components of the Berkeley plan include: * building a community of faculty dedicated to exploring new approaches for information and research based learning; * developing a library reconceived as a center for learning and instructional expertise; * creating opportunities for academic support units to work collaboratively to provide consultative support to faculty that can inform course design and implementation.
Subjects: information based learning; research based learning; campus collaboration
Objective: The University of California is committed to leveraging its research strength to enliven undergraduate learning by engaging undergraduates in information and research-based activities. Institutional support for this has been provided at many levels along with a shared commitment from administrators, faculty, librarians, educational technologists, and other pedagogical experts to: * redesign courses and assignments; * re-energize large enrollment and core courses; * enable students to develop information and critical thinking skills both within and outside of the classroom.
Language(s): en
Time length to use it: n/a
Open to international use: Yes
Geographical scope: National
Audience: Library IL facilitators
Address: 302 Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
E-mail: pmaughan@library.berkeley.edu
Telephone: 510-643-8666