Rules of Engagement: Best Practices for Connecting with Students

Abstract

One of the biggest challenges most of us face in our teaching is a very basic one: How do we engage students in learning to research? Whatever we call the instruction we provide – information literacy, critical thinking, research or library skills – and wherever that instruction occurs – in one shot classroom sessions, online, in credit courses, at the reference desk, or in the cafeteria – student engagement is a conundrum for us.