QUT Information Professionals Alumni
Book Launch
when: Monday, 15 June 2009
time: 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start
where: OJW room, level 12, S block, QUT, Gardens Point Campus
who: everyone! alumni…students…techies…professionals…
how much: $15 for light refreshments (pay at door)
rsvp: alumni@qut.edu.au by Thursday, 11 June. Please use fax back form.
One copy of each book will be given away on the night!
Dr Christine M. Tilley is an associate of Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She has lectured at QUT and other tertiary institutions for some two decades, and served as an adviser and board member for numerous library and informational technology committees. Additionally, she has served on a number of professional committees including the Australian Council of Libraries & Information Services (Queensland branch) and Early Imprints Project Queensland (EIPQ). She has extensive experience in disability issues, has been active in disability and other community organisations and continues to publish widely in this area. Her research work has included information and communications technology and disability, information literacy, community information use and the EIPQ.
Tilley, Christine. (2007). A sense of control : virtual communities for people with mobility impairments. Oxford, Chandos.
This work develops a theoretical framework for a virtual community for people with long-term, severe mobility disabilities. It proposes strategies for implementing a virtual community model based on user information needs. The central theme to emerge from their narratives is how the use of information and communications technology (ICT) allows them to regain a sense of control. The conclusion is that the technology provides strategies for independence and facilitates self-empowerment
Further information
Dr Mandy Lupton is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, QUT, where she lecturers in teacher librarianship and higher education learning and teaching. Mandy's professional experience has spanned a range of educational sectors and fields. In the secondary sector she worked as a performing arts teacher and teacher librarian, while in the tertiary sector she has worked as an academic librarian, academic developer and lecturer. Mandy's research interests include information literacy, student learning in higher education, inquiry-based learning and music education. She is currently involved in an Australian Learning and Teaching Council grant investigating threshold concepts in first-year physics and law.
Lupton, Mandy. (2008). Information literacy and learning. Blackwood, S. Aust. : Auslib Press.
This work explores the relationship experienced between information literacy and learning by university students. In formal education students are frequently required to independently find and use information to learn about a topic, and information literacy is often claimed to be a generic skill and graduate attribute. This book explores the relationship between information literacy and learning.
Further information
Dr Christine Bruce is Professor in the Information Science Research Group, in the School of IT QUT. Her research interests revolve around the perceptual worlds of information and technology users, including learning in the higher education context; especially, information literacy, IT learners’ experience of critical concepts, the pedagogy of research supervision, and IT researchers’ interpretation of their territory. Christine is presently an ALTC Associate Fellow.
Bruce, Christine. (2008). Informed Learning. Association of College and Research Libraries. Chicago.
This work considers the question: “What should we teach and how, so that our students will use information successfully, creatively, and responsibly in their journey as lifelong learners?” The work examines how information and disciplinary learning can coexist. The ‘informed learning’ framework will enable teachers, librarians, researchers to work together in a responsive way to help students use information to learn.
Further information
time: 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start
where: OJW room, level 12, S block, QUT, Gardens Point Campus
who: everyone! alumni…students…techies…professionals…
how much: $15 for light refreshments (pay at door)
rsvp: alumni@qut.edu.au by Thursday, 11 June. Please use fax back form.
One copy of each book will be given away on the night!
Dr Christine M. Tilley is an associate of Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She has lectured at QUT and other tertiary institutions for some two decades, and served as an adviser and board member for numerous library and informational technology committees. Additionally, she has served on a number of professional committees including the Australian Council of Libraries & Information Services (Queensland branch) and Early Imprints Project Queensland (EIPQ). She has extensive experience in disability issues, has been active in disability and other community organisations and continues to publish widely in this area. Her research work has included information and communications technology and disability, information literacy, community information use and the EIPQ.
Tilley, Christine. (2007). A sense of control : virtual communities for people with mobility impairments. Oxford, Chandos.
This work develops a theoretical framework for a virtual community for people with long-term, severe mobility disabilities. It proposes strategies for implementing a virtual community model based on user information needs. The central theme to emerge from their narratives is how the use of information and communications technology (ICT) allows them to regain a sense of control. The conclusion is that the technology provides strategies for independence and facilitates self-empowerment
Further information
Dr Mandy Lupton is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, QUT, where she lecturers in teacher librarianship and higher education learning and teaching. Mandy's professional experience has spanned a range of educational sectors and fields. In the secondary sector she worked as a performing arts teacher and teacher librarian, while in the tertiary sector she has worked as an academic librarian, academic developer and lecturer. Mandy's research interests include information literacy, student learning in higher education, inquiry-based learning and music education. She is currently involved in an Australian Learning and Teaching Council grant investigating threshold concepts in first-year physics and law.
Lupton, Mandy. (2008). Information literacy and learning. Blackwood, S. Aust. : Auslib Press.
This work explores the relationship experienced between information literacy and learning by university students. In formal education students are frequently required to independently find and use information to learn about a topic, and information literacy is often claimed to be a generic skill and graduate attribute. This book explores the relationship between information literacy and learning.
Further information
Dr Christine Bruce is Professor in the Information Science Research Group, in the School of IT QUT. Her research interests revolve around the perceptual worlds of information and technology users, including learning in the higher education context; especially, information literacy, IT learners’ experience of critical concepts, the pedagogy of research supervision, and IT researchers’ interpretation of their territory. Christine is presently an ALTC Associate Fellow.
Bruce, Christine. (2008). Informed Learning. Association of College and Research Libraries. Chicago.
This work considers the question: “What should we teach and how, so that our students will use information successfully, creatively, and responsibly in their journey as lifelong learners?” The work examines how information and disciplinary learning can coexist. The ‘informed learning’ framework will enable teachers, librarians, researchers to work together in a responsive way to help students use information to learn.
Further information
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A very interesting evening with three fabulous presenters discussing their recently published books. Photos available in the photo section.
Thanks everyone for a lovely evening!
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