Supporting Today's Students in the Library: Strategies for Retaining and Graduating International, Transfer, First-Generation, and Re-Entry Studends - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838946623 ISBN 13: 9780838946626

Verlag: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This volume brings together academic librarians from North America for 16 chapters that detail strategies for retaining and graduating nontraditional students, particularly international, transfer, first-generation, and re-entry/older students from all types of higher education institutions. They draw on learning theories and teaching methods to describe methods, best practices, and case studies, as well as ideas for new services, spaces, and outreach opportunities. They address supporting first-generation students, overcoming language barriers, instruction and information literacy, stressors for returning adult students in online learning environments, library instruction for multilingual students, online learning for English language learners, an online academic integrity tutorial for international graduate students, reaching first-generation and underrepresented students through transparent assignment design, a research-writing practicum to increase student agency and engagement, interdepartmental collaboration to target the research and writing challenges of international graduate students, strategies to diversify digital collections to support first-generation students, campus and library support strategies, developing language skills and connections through games, creating community for transfer students through a library picnic, single-parent students, and older, transfer, and commuter student involvement in the library. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Association of College & Research Libraries
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0838946623
• ISBN 13: 9780838946626
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 275
• Herausgeber: Tran Ngoc-yen, Higgins Silke
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland