Beyond Arcadia: ANCIL at Cambridge

Dr Jane Secker & Dr Emma CoonanDr Helen Webster & Katy Wrathall

libraries@cambridge 2012

The Arcadia Programme

Phase 1: May-July 2011

Develop a new, revolutionary curriculum for information literacy in a digital age

http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/projects/information-literacy.html

“Information literacy … empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create

information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world

and promotes social inclusion in all nations.”

UNESCO (2005) Alexandria Proclamation

Aims: in 10 weeks

Understand the needs of undergraduates entering HE over the coming 5 years

Map the current landscape of information literacy Develop practical curriculum and supporting

resources

MethodModified Delphi study • means of obtaining expert future forecasting

• consulted widely in the fields of information and education

Literature review• theoretical overview of the field

• conflicts in terminology, pedagogic approach, values

Expert workshop• method, findings and preliminary curriculum presented

• curriculum refined in light of feedback

Expert consultation

Librarians, researchers, educators, trainee teachers, school librarians

How you teach at least as important as what you teach

Must be embedded into the academic curriculum and disciplines will vary

Must be based on real needs: students are not homogeneous

Must be opportunities for reflection

Our experts said …

Modular, flexibleholistic, embedded,relevant to students

Format and structure of the curriculum

Online / face to faceActive learning: discussion

and reflectionTraining > Teaching Teaching style and

method of delivery

Who teaches?

When?

And don’t forget …

Use of auditsMeaningful assessment

Learning outcomes

How to market IL to different audiences

Assessment

Marketing / hooks

Aligning the curriculum content to discipline specific knowledge, skills and behaviour

Curriculum strands

1. Transition from school to higher education2. Becoming an independent learner3. Developing academic literacies4. Mapping and evaluating the information landscape 5. Resource discovery in your discipline 6. Managing information7. Ethical dimension of information 8. Presenting and communicating knowledge 9. Synthesising information and creating new knowledge10. Social dimension of information literacy

Information literacy is a continuum of skills, behaviours, approaches and values that is so deeply entwined with the uses of information as to be a fundamental element of learning,

scholarship and research.

It is the defining characteristic of the discerning scholar, the informed and judicious citizen, and

the autonomous learner.

ANCIL definition of information literacy (2011)

Phase 2: Oct-Dec 2011

Strategies for implementing the Curriculum for Information Literacy

Dr Helen Webster & Katy Wrathall

http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/projects/strategies-for-implementation.html

Aims - also in 10 weeks

Scope possible implementation strategies What provision already exists? Who might deliver or support ANCIL within an institution? What formats might delivery take? What is needed to support delivery?

Develop resources to support implementation For individual institutions Generic, adaptable resources for any institution

What’s new about the New Curriculum?

It’s a curriculum

It doesn’t belong to any one profession

What’s new about the New Curriculum?

Map of information literacy at Cambridge

What might the curriculum be used for?

benchmarking/diagnostic tool

framework to inform strategy, learning outcomes

and marking criteria

guidance model

teaching resources

audit tool: institutional, faculty/college,

individual

ANCIL

Where to start?!

Institutional Audit tool

Teaching toolkit

Delivery formats

Staff-led Student-led

Subject expertise

Professional expertise

Project outputs:CambridgeRecommendations

ANCIL for Colleges ANCIL for Faculties ANCIL at Cambridge*

Resources (hosted on the ANCIL wiki) ANCIL for supervisors Supervision teaching resources Information literacy First Aid ANCIL for Cambridge libraries ANCIL: the video Librarians in Training workshop Transkills workshop

An Information Literacy Strategy for Cambridge?

Project outputs: other institutions

ANCIL research outputsPhase 1 reports Executive summary, expert consultation report, and theoretical

background Curriculum and supporting documents

http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com/

Phase 2 resources and case studies Case studies - University of Worcester, York St John University Cambridge resources

http://implementingancil.pbworks.com

YouTube Video Search for “ANCIL curriculum”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-V2givIiE