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Information-Focused Teaching & Learning

The Information-focused Teaching & Learning REAL promotes the research excellences of the Purdue Libraries by building an active community among researchers whose scholarship is centered around Information-focused teaching and learning. Our REAL provides a place for faculty and staff members to exchange information, identify resource/training needs, facilitate collaboration, allocate resources, and prototype ideas. The diverse array of research interests cultivated by members of the REAL share a common focus on teaching and learning within higher education and beyond.

Faculty Fellows

Annette Bochenek

Annette Bochenek
Assistant Professor of Information Studies, Business Information Specialist
ahbochen@purdue.edu
765-496-5230
Research interest: Scholarship of teaching and learning; information literacy; affect, primary sources

Dave Zwicky

Dave Zwicky
Associate Professor
dzwicky@purdue.edu
765-496-7279
Research interests: Application of patent and trademark information in science and technology education, chemical information literacy instruction, and workplace information literacy for STEM disciplines.

Affiliated Faculty and Staff Information

Name & Title Brief Overview of Research Interest
Neal Baker, Clinical Assistant Professor Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics
Chao Cai, Assistant Professor Scholarship of teaching and learning in biological information
Bert Chapman, Professor Assessment & evaluation of aspects of higher education, student success and learning
Melissa Chomintra, Assistant Professor Intersectional feminism; critical race theory; critical cartography; feminist geography; feminist information literacy
Victoria Dawkins, Assistant Professor Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Library
Rachel Fundator, Assistant Clinical Professor Informed learning, information literacy, inclusive pedagogy, scholarship of teaching and learning
Andrea Hayes, Assistant Professor Health information literacy, women’s health literacy, BIPOC health literacy and community outreach
J.P. Hérubel Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Library
Heather Howard, Associate Head & Associate Professor Scholarship of teaching and learning, how students and recent graduates use information both in the classroom and workplace, critical librarianship, and academic library leadership
Sarah Huber, Associate Professor Library of Engineering and Science
Nastasha Johnson, Associate Professor Library of Engineering and Science
Kristin Leaman, Assistant Professor Scholarship of teaching and learning; information literacy and archival literacy instruction in freshman composition; Archival literacy and primary source literacy instruction, including critical archival studies, rare books, and medieval and early modern manuscripts; intersection of special collections and digital humanities
Samantha LeGrand, Clinical Assistant Professor Information literacy pedagogy to empower democratic participation; algorithmic literacy—developing critical, reflexive uses of algorithmic info systems to empower informed human decision-making; students-as-partners pedagogy; participatory methods
Clarence Maybee, Associate Dean for Learning Informed learning, information literacy, inclusive pedagogy, scholarship of teaching and learning
Zoeanna Mayhook, Assistant Professor Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Business Librarianship, Market Research, Information Behavior
Jason Reed, Associate Professor Evidence Based Practice, Conversations about Death and Dying

Clarence Maybee, Rachel Fundator, & Samantha LeGrand Secret Permenter, History graduate student
Rachel Fundator & Samantha LeGrand Benjamin Weiss, Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student
Margaret Phillips & Heather Howard Jiahong Wang, OUR Scholar, Business undergraduate student
Jason Reed Zoona Ahmad, Doctorate of Pharmacy student
Kristin Leaman Mac Boyle, English graduate student
Chao Cai Justyna Czader, College of Education graduate student
Zoeanna Mayhook Chris Ghita, Business undergraduate students, Honors
Amy Childress, JJ Sadler, & Craig Zywicki Layla Dang, Psychology doctoral studentYiheng (Megan) Zhou, Counseling Psychology doctoral studentMikayla Klemp, undergraduate studentHarmya Bhatt, undergraduate studentArmaan Kanchan, undergraduate studentValerie Minnick, undergraduate studentEmeline Papp, undergraduate studentAadya Pawar, undergraduate studentBritney Ramos, undergraduate studentFilippa Rodriguez, undergraduate student