As online learning becomes increasingly popular and widespread,
librarians and faculty need new models for developing information
literacy instruction in online environments. In this book, Thomas
P. Mackey, Interim Dean at the Center for Distance Learning, SUNY
Empire State College and Trudi E. Jacobson, Dudley Award Winner and
Head User Education Librarian at SUNY Albany explore innovative
faculty-librarian partnerships for teaching information literacy
online. This edited volume includes a foreword by noted online
learning scholar Terry Anderson, Professor & Canada Research
Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University. All of the
contributions to this book are co-written by faculty-librarian
teams, providing a global perspective from the UK's Open University
and the University of Manchester, and from a number of U.S.
institutions including the University of Central Florida, and
Indiana State University. Each chapter fuses pedagogical,
disciplinary, and technological issues and covers practical
approaches to hybrid, blended, open, and fully online courses and
programs. Several disciplines are represented at the undergraduate
and graduate levels, including Business and Accounting, Computer
and Library Science, History, English, Women's Studies, Education,
and Social Work, as well as Curriculum Instruction and Media
Studies. To help readers replicate the models in this book, each
chapter includes an emphasis on program planning, best practices,
potential challenges, and effective assessment strategies for
improving student learning. Author teams describe technology
innovations using reusable learning objects, Web 2.0 tools,
learning management systems, open wiki environments, online
portals, and the virtual world of Second Life. Through a
combination of research and valuable real-life success stories,
this cutting-edge new resource will help faculty and librarians
foster effective collaborations and provide students with p
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