Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Credit-bearing info lit?

ACRLog blogger StevenB responds to Bill Badke's article "Ten reasons to teach information literacy for credit."

I'm with Steven on this. In my experience teaching a credit-bearing IL course in the past, it wasn't worth the time we put into it. It didn't reach very many people as an elective course. And it certainly didn't prove anything to faculty about the importance of information literacy. In fact, some professors figured they didn't have to worry about IL because our course was available to students.