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Faculty in economics and business at ACM colleges engaged in ongoing efforts through the Information Literacy Project.

Meeting in August 2003

At Colorado College, faculty in economics and business met in August 2003 to report on their work during the previous year. They exchanged reports on their small group projects and agreed on plans for a Web site devoted to disseminating effective information literacy assignments in economics.

Workshop in July 2002

In July 2002, more than 20 faculty members and information specialists in economics and business at ACM colleges gathered at Colorado College for a workshop focused on sharing pedagogical techniques for teaching information literacy in the economics and business classrooms. Mark Smith (Economics, Colorado) headed a planning committee and worked with Elizabeth Hayford (President, ACM) and Sarah Marino (Program Officer, ACM) to organize the workshop.

Marcelo Clerici-Arias, Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University, gave the keynote address on the opening night. The next day, there were several 10-minute presentations by the participants about classroom techniques to help students find, evaluate, and use different information resources available on the World Wide Web and in the library.

During the remainder of the time, small groups formed to plan projects to be executed during the course of the 2002-03 academic year. These projects included the following:

• Creating an online archive of current events articles, to serve as the basis of a series of assignments, using key economic terms;
• Developing a number of case studies, to be shared on the web, that can be used in the classroom to help students analyze data sets;
• Constructing several modules explaining key economic concepts that can be posted online and used as a resource by students;
• Producing an online bibliography of pedagogically useful refereed journal articles and designing guidelines for students to help them read academic articles.

More information about the workshops and links to the readings and projects are available at www2.coloradocollege.edu/dept/ec/acm or contact ACM (312/263-5000).

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