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Modern-Day Expats
U.S. Professionals Working Abroad
An Information Literacy Training Approach
Agenda
• Expats User Group:– Key Traits – Information Needs
• Training Approach:– Key Skills Needed– Lesson Plan – Activities for Different Learning Styles
• Skills & Competencies Rubric • Other Resources
Expats – Key Traits
• Expats: U.S. professionals who are living and working abroad for a work assignment in another country
Tech - savvy Eager for information Experiencing a change in their life, need help managing the change May be experiencing feelings of anxiety or nervousness Key information sources: employer and other expats
See Blassingame, 2003; Peppas, 2004; and Meijer et al, 2012 in the bibliography for more background traits.
Expats – Information Needs
See Peppas, 2004; and Meijer et al, 2012 for more details.
Country & Culture Topics
Political, Econ,
Business
Safety & Security
Language Customs Etiquette
Visa / Work
Permits
Health Services
Leisure activities
Training Approach – Key Skills
1. Ability to research (search, find) and apply information on a range of topics, with different levels of complexity, using resources available
2. Ability to produce and share information, using one or more online communication tools, to keep in contact with friends and family back home
A lesson plan was developed to address two key skill areas for information literacy for U.S. expats:
Training Approach – Lesson Plan
A workshop was developed to reach these learning outcomes:
Gain Understanding Apply Learning
• Resources available to U.S. expats working abroad
• Technologies, mediums, formats of online communication tools available
• Ability to search and use the resources to complete pre-departure tasks
• Ability to create and post to a personalized instance of an online communication tool (such as a personal blog or web page)
See Lesson Plan for more details.
Training Approach – Activities & Learning Styles
Activity What If What How Why
Lecture Brainstorming Create Blog/Site Testimonials
Activity Attention Relevance Confidence SatisfactionIntro – Map & Name Tags
Pre-Departure Demo Class Discussions
McCarthy’s Four Learning Styles
Keller’s (as described by Small) ARCS Model
Skills & Competencies Rubric
Skill to be Assessed Beginner Intermediate AdvancedKnowledge gained about information resources for expats
• Identifies resources from employer
• Identifies resources provided externally (websites, blogs, etc.)
• Ability to teach others about all types of resources available
Ability to search and use/apply knowledge & resources to complete pre-departure tasks
• Signs up for simple alerts & notifications by email, identifies key greetings in local language
• Searches medium complexity information resources to identify required inputs for preparation tasks (i.e. list of health vaccines)
• Navigates complex information resources; identifies inputs & outputs for multi-step processes from those resources, and completes complex tasks (i.e. visa / work permit process)
Familiarity with online communication tools
• Identifies a list of online communication tool options
• Describes format/medium and technology for one or two online communication tools
• Describes format/medium, technology, & differences & similarities between blogs, websites, Twitter, & other social networking/online comm tools
Ability to create and post to a personalized instance of an online communication tool
• Writes a posting and upload post (and/or photos) to Facebook
• Creates a Wordpress online blog (incl. layout, design, and posting)
• Creates webpage (incl. design, layout); links photos, video, & other URLs to webpage; sets up RSS feeds to stream postings
Other Resources
• See the website for these additional resources:– An evaluation/assessment guide for instructor and survey
for attendees– Skills & competencies rubric handout– Lesson Plan (for activity examples)– A bibliography with a list of sources
• http://moderndayexpat.wordpress.com/