We are pleased to announce the ACRL Digital Badge Interest Group Spring Virtual Program. The event will take place on Wednesday 5/3/2023 at 1pm EST.
All are welcome. No registration is required. Event zoom information is included below.
Program Title: Using Digital Badges to Prepare Students for the University to Workplace Transition
Program Description: The modern workplace is a transdisciplinary, information-rich environment, making information literacy skills vital for students. With funding from the Purdue Innovation Hub and the Purdue Libraries, we developed, piloted, assessed, and promoted a suite of instructional digital badging modules for undergraduate students revolving around information literacy topics relevant to the workplace. The topics covered include (1) effective information gathering strategies, (2) competitive analysis, (3) patent information, (4) industry standards, and (5) informed communication. The goal is to provide Purdue students with foundational training relevant to their future careers (as well as transferable credentials that they can share with potential employers and post on badge-compliant platforms such as LinkedIn) and to provide instructors across campus a flexible set of information literacy tools that they can use to improve student outcomes. This presentation will provide an overview of our project development process, which involved getting feedback from stakeholders, such as employers who hire our students, share examples of our learning modules, and give details about how we built our digital badging content into Purdue's learning management system, D2L Brightspace.
Presenter Bios:
- Margaret Phillips is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Head in the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies. Margaret's research interests include technical standards, workplace information literacy for engineering, technology, and business students, and evidence synthesis practices in engineering disciplines.
- Heather Howard is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Head in the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies. Heather's research interests include evidence-based decision-making in the management classroom, workplace information literacy for business students, and business information literacy practices in management classrooms.
- Dave Zwicky is an Associate Professor in the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies. Dave's research interests include the application of patent and trademark information in science and technology education, chemical information literacy instruction, and workplace information literacy for STEM disciplines.
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Wendy Pothier
Business & Economics Librarian
University of New Hampshire
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