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
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
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 |