Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

There is a series of "case studies" on the CILIP Information Literacy website, with librarians describing how they have shifted IL teaching online. So far there are contributions from: Delyth Morris (Subject Librarian for Medicine at Cardiff University); David Bedford (Academic Support Librarian at Universities at Medway); Sarah Smyth (Assistant Librarian at Ulster University); Lesley English (Faculty Librarian (Teaching and Learning) at Lancaster University); Eleanor Barker and Veronica Phillips (Medical Library at the Un

We’ll all be teaching infolit online for the foreseeable future (I hope) and it is, as anyone who’s done much of it will tell you, a very different experience to being in a room with people.

I do a lot of training online already for overseas audiences, so I have some familiarity with this. For what it’s worth, here are some tips for retooling your sessions to work in a webinar type environment.

Firstly, the Californian association for information literacy, LILi, has set up a page for sharing resources about teaching IL online. "Inspired by CCC COVID-19 Website Google Doc, Lifelong Information Literacy (LILi) created this blog post to collect online instruction information from all libraries in California. Please share in the form or comment below for discussions. The LILi Web Committee will summarize important information and resources in this blog as the situation evolves." This is at https://lili.libguides.com/lion/COVID-19

In this guest post, Hossam Kassem from the Open University (OU) presents the first in a series of case studies compiled by Jane Secker and Sarah Pavey from the CILIP Information Literacy Group to illustrate how different institutions have shifted their information literacy teaching online as part of the response to the COIVD-19 pandemic.