Schedule

Collaboration on multimedia projects and learning technologies

• Capitalizing on the triangulation of IT/media staff, faculty, and students in the flipped classroom in the context of a writing-intensive course

  Rrezarta Xhaferi & Julie Kolgjini
• Our path to success: Collaboration among technologists, academic administrators, students, and faculty in AUBG’s integration of Blackboard

  Lynnette Leonard, Evelina Terzieva & Stefani Nikolova
• Students as multimedia content creators

  Pandeli Glavanis & Joan Lippincott

Studying library services, resources and information literacy

• On the threshold of a new era: A snapshot of information literacy at AMICAL institutions

  Meggan Houlihan
• The use of library resources for research assignments in MBA programs: A case study

  Gohar Stepanyan
• Using assessment to improve library services: The American University of Sharjah library experience

  Daphne Flanagan

• Assessment: Demonstrating the educational value of the academic library — Feedback from the ACRL Immersion Program

  Michael Stoepel
• Enhancing faculty-librarian collaboration: The Al Akhawayn University model

  Aziz El Hassani
• Novice programmers’ difficulties alleviated: Surpassing the learning threshold

  Joe Khalife
• Online textbook-materials for climate change science

  Margaret Kneller
• The American University in Cairo goes to Washington: Utilizing faculty-librarian collaborations to participate in international research initiatives

  Meggan Houlihan
• “The winner takes it all”: Games and gamification of an information literacy freshman program

  Stella Asderi

Session 1

Information literacy, learning models and instructional technologies

• Cognitive apprenticeship: A model for information literacy instruction in a virtual reference environment

  Mary Kickham-Samy
• Information literacy as complex learning

  Anguelina Popova
• On the threshold of a new era: Information literacy and Generation Z

  Krasimir Spasov & Dannie Chalk

Brief presentations taking place in a single venue and delivered simultaneously to attendees that come and go freely.

• Digital collections across AMICAL institutions: Opportunities for consortial action

  Ryder Kouba & Elisabetta Morani
• Engaging students in creating multimedia content

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• From print library to Digital Service with faculty collaboration — The case of the American University of Nigeria

  Julius Ayuktabe
• Incentivizing student information literacy learning with digital badges

  Ahmed Alwan
• Integrating Turnitin’s LTI into your LMS

  Rosa Fusco
• Learner engagement and assessment: Socrative, a tool to capitalize on

  Giselle Pempedjian
• The effect of technology challenges in the classroom on student engagement: An experiment at a liberal arts college

  Veneta Andonova
• The mobile lab revolution: Bringing the library to the students

  Livia Piotto
• Usage of Adobe Connect at AUCA

  Ekaterina Kombarova
• Using IT to teach economics to undergraduate students: Computer game simulators in economics

  Aleksandar Vasilev & Schedule
• Your AMICAL profile: Connecting across the consortium

  Alex Armstrong

Session 2