Librarians' Active Learning Institute (LALI)

The Librarians’ Active Learning Institute (LALI) helps teaching librarians develop and refine their skills as learner-centered teachers, instructional designers, and collaborators. The LALI instructors design this two-day workshop around active learning principles, the LALI learning outcomes (below), and the specific challenges identified by each year’s group of participants. LALI will be offered for three consecutive years, 2011-2013, to allow for participation by all Dartmouth College Library teaching librarians.

LALI is co-sponsored by the Dartmouth College Library and the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, and it is a partner program to the annual Active Learning Institute for faculty. 

As a result of participating in LALI, participants will:

1) Experience and reflect on active learning pedagogy and practice;

2) Explore methods for assessing students' existing research competencies and habits;

3)  Strategize about ways to work with faculty to craft research assignments with clear  and measurable outcomes;

4)  Determine which active learning methods are most useful in a variety of library instruction scenarios;

5)  Explore tools that might be used to support active learning;

6) Leave LALI with specific strategies for how they will incorporate active learning into their teaching.