, La Revista JBHSI, Journal of Behavior, Health & Social Issues es una publicación semestral que sirve para difundir en lengua inglesa los avances metodológicos, teóricos y de investigación empírica principalmente de científicos del comportamiento de habla hispana, entre los…

Subscription to Journal of Behavior, Health & Social Issues, JBHSI runs from January to December of every year. Subscription is available for national and foreign members in the following categories: full member, student and institutional.   Annual affiliation fee for…

Bill Johnston will review selected current thinking on the nature of learning environments in higher education and identify how this work can be applied to course (re)design and curriculum renewal in universities. He will outline his thinking on curriculum renewal…

The paper will source evidence about the skills that contribute to retention and success in undergraduate higher education: and the capacity to assess and remediate skill sets when learners commence HE with reference to the strategies that apply to information…

In the higher education Information Literacy context, there is growing interest and requirements for evaluation of librarian teaching and assessment of student learning. This session will explore these issues and use WASSAIL as a sample tool to consider for these…

Diversity in higher education calls for process oriented information literacy (IL) practitioners rather than source oriented practitioners. They must be generalists because e.g. students with different backgrounds to a higher degree bring multi- and interdisciplinarity into the situation of creating…

The presentation describes the Library Online Tour and Self-Paced Education (LOTSE) project for Slavic Studies (LOTSE-Slavistik) at Bochum University Library, Germany. LOTSE Slavic Studies is an open access online tutorial that provides German-speaking students and researchers an introduction to the…

Many definitions of IL focus on the subjective value of information - the learner expected to be the initiator, agent and evaluator of an information search. However, we must also judge information against the objective domain: without it, we risk…

Google Wave, launched in 2009, can generate a wave, which is a kind of conversation between users and at the same time a document. The conversation can be made of text, pictures, videos, maps, and more. This poster will show…

It is common in many institutions of higher education to have a diverse student population with respect to language and culture in addition to diversity in ability and talent. For many students the language of instruction is not their first…