{"id":2874,"date":"2019-09-22T18:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.las.org.sg\/wp\/sjlim\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2019-09-22T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:13:22","slug":"experiences-of-nus-librarians-as-lecturers-of-a-phd-engineering-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.las.org.sg\/wp\/sjlim\/experiences-of-nus-librarians-as-lecturers-of-a-phd-engineering-module\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiences of NUS Librarians as Lecturers of a PhD Engineering Module"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Pu Fang Chiong, Patrick and Wong Kah Wei<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo, I came in thinking it was a waste of time, but I learnt useful skills that I would use over the course of my PhD. Thank you!\u201d \u2026 with these encouraging words from a senior student who attended the module a few semesters ago, we press on! In 2014, librarians of National University of Singapore (NUS) started teaching information literacy skills to Faculty of Engineering\u2019s PhD students in the module EG5911 \u201cResearch Methodology and Ethics\u201d. Back then, the information literacy component was allocated 25% of the module\u2019s Continuous Assessment (CA). Today, the information literacy component is 40% of CA. Apart from the increase in CA, librarians are also given the liberty to revamp the information literacy syllabus and assessment of the module. This article details the journey the librarians took from teaching information literacy skills in a traditional lecture-cum-tutorial setting to a 4-hour activity-based lesson in a smart classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.las.org.sg\/wp\/sjlim\/files\/SJLIM-2018-06-Experiences-of-NUS-Librarians-as-Lecturers.pdf\">DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pu Fang Chiong, Patrick and Wong Kah Wei Abstract: \u201cNo, I came in thinking it was a waste of time, but I learnt useful skills that I would use over the course of my PhD. Thank you!\u201d \u2026 with these encouraging words from a senior student who attended the module a few semesters ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[496,477],"tags":[368,464,428,318],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-19-volume-47","category-article","tag-academic-libraries","tag-activity-based-learning","tag-curriculum-design","tag-information-literacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JICW-Km","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2921,"url":"https:\/\/www.las.org.sg\/wp\/sjlim\/teaching-of-legal-research-at-nus-law-school\/","url_meta":{"origin":2874,"position":0},"title":"Teaching of Legal Research at NUS Law School","author":"lengfoong","date":"September 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"By Carolyn Wee, Clement Lin and Lee Su-Lin Abstract:This article will explore the librarian\u2019s role in the teaching of legal research in the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law (\u201cNUS Law\u201d). 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