On Wednesday, May 1, the Library Instructor Development Program held an event on information literacy (IL) instruction for graduate students. Links: Presentation slides: Information Literacy for Graduate Students Annotated bibliography Handout on in… more »

The March 20th IDP event featured Richard Freishtat, Senior Consultant for UC Berkeley's Center for Teaching and Learning. Richard described the CTL services, programs and resources that are available to Library instructors, which include: Consultati… more »

The November 15 IDP event featured presentations on interactive techniques to engage students. Three of the techniques involved using Google Drive (Forms, Spreadsheets, Docs, etc.), and three made use of the "Berkeley 10," the ten minutes before class s… more »

Active learning techniques: Hanford, E. (2012). American Radioworks. The Tomorrow?s College series: Don?t lecture me. URL: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows-college/lectures/ A radio program on the relative ineffectiveness… more »

On May 2 the IDP held an event in the Engineering Library conference room that featured short excerpts from the American Radioworks documentary "Don't Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn" and Harvard physicist Eric Mazur's video "Confessio… more »