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

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May 29th, 2:30 PM May 29th, 3:30 PM

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.