Information Literacy and Doctoral Students: Avatars and Educators Collaborate for Online Distance Learning

Abstract

This paper describes a project in which an educational technology faculty member and a librarian collaborated to provide information literacy to doctoral students.The collaboration focused on meeting the needs of these graduate students.In addition to a required a face-to-face experience, these students with no prior experience of technology were exposed to the BlackBoard Virtual classroom and the virtual world sites of Second Life (SL).Through this project, the collaborators used the multi-user virtual environment of SL to demonstrate how information literacy, teaching and discussion groups can be successfully applied in a virtual environment.Both the librarian and educational technology faculty member embraced this delivery model to impart information literacy to doctoral students.

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