Location
Dolan School of Business
Start Date
29-5-2014 2:30 PM
End Date
29-5-2014 3:30 PM
Session Type
Interactive Session
Description
This session will offer strategies to participants which will empower them to design authentic research assignments that engage students and encourage the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills. The presenters will share and discuss their collaboration at Fairfield University, as a member of the biology faculty and an instructional librarian, to design an authentic assignment on the topic of the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for an honors course that would incorporate information literacy skills. Participants will have the opportunity to analyze assignments and create their own authentic assignments using the concepts presented.
Topic Designation
Teaching & Learning
Presenter Bio(s)
Joan Clark
Reference and Instruction Librarian
DiMenna-Nyselius Library
Fairfield University
Anita Fernandez
Assistant Professor of Developmental Genetics
Biology Department
Fairfield University
Designing Authentic Assignments to Engage Students
Dolan School of Business
This session will offer strategies to participants which will empower them to design authentic research assignments that engage students and encourage the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills. The presenters will share and discuss their collaboration at Fairfield University, as a member of the biology faculty and an instructional librarian, to design an authentic assignment on the topic of the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for an honors course that would incorporate information literacy skills. Participants will have the opportunity to analyze assignments and create their own authentic assignments using the concepts presented.