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crln-9011	Shamchuk, Lisa; Plouffe, Leah	MacEwan University Library’s pedagogical shift: Using active learning activities during first-year information literacy sessions	2013	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2221	99	48	This pedagogical technique helps to increase student interest, engagement, and learning by allowing them to express their questions, idea, and opinions.1 With active learning, the librarian acts less like a lecturer dispensing information and more like a facilitator of critical thinking and reflective learning, helping to develop students’ IL skills while promoting essential collaboration between the library and faculty. Active learning is an approach that recog- nizes a variety of learning styles and offers instructors multiple ways of reaching learners Lisa Shamchuk and Leah Plouffe MacEwan University Library’s pedagogical shift Using active learning activities during first-year information literacy sessions Lisa Shamchuk is learning and curriculum support librarian, e-mail: shamchukl@macewan.ca, and Leah Plouffe is learning and curriculum support librarian at MacEwan University Library in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, e-mail: leah.plouffe@macewan.ca © 2013 Lisa Shamchuk and Leah Plouffe that perform better in environments that are less lecture-based.2 Background A small teaching team of librarians decided to incorporate active learning pedagogy into the largest IL program at MacEwan University Li- brary: the English Library Instruction Program (ELIP).	cache/crln-9011.pdf	txt/crln-9011.txt