Abstract
This paper is included in the Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society, the proceedings of the European Conference on Information Literacy, 2016. The paper introduces a model for creating information literacy learning activities that motivate students. The model draws from informed learning, an approach to information literacy that emphasizes the role that information plays in fostering learning about a subject. Self-determination theory, a motivational theory that focuses on enabling self-determined learners, is applied within the informed learning framework. The results of the investigation outline characteristics of motivating learning activities that enable learning subject content through engagement with information. The model is intended to be used by librarians when working with classroom teachers to foster greater student learning gains through creative and reflective engagement with information.
Keywords
informed learning, self-determination theory, student motivation
Date of this Version
2016
Recommended Citation
Maybee, Clarence and Flierl, Michael, "Motivating learners through information literacy" (2016). Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research. Paper 150.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_fsdocs/150