Presented at LILAC 2022

1. IL
SIT
Asia:
IL in Asia:
the case at SIT
by debby wegener

2. africa …

3. … to asia

4. The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is a university of
applied learning established in 2009 that currently has around
7,000 students.
Singapore
Institute of
Technology
SIT

5. information
literacy
in Asia?

6. • unimaginative
• uncritical
• rote learners
• grades, grades, grades

7. • unimaginative
• uncritical
• rote learners
• grades, grades, grades

8. didactic
& teacher-
centered

9. “teacher-centered” questions
• what type of study is this?
• can I use an editorial for my
thesis?

10. kiasuism
everything
also I want
+

11. interesting
parallel?
NipapornPanyacharoen © 123RF.com
(Bedford & Chua, 2018)

12. kiasuism (negative)
• crafty
calculation

13. williamju © 123RF.com
kiasuism (positive)
• ambitious
aspirations

14. Stephen Mcsweeny © 123RF.com
engagement
参
与

15. “…student’s willingness to invest
their own cognitive, emotional,
social and behavioural effort to
interact with resources”
(Conduit et al., 2016, p. 242).

16. “engagement with learning”
“engagement with the library”
(Appleton, 2020, p. 3).

17. we start
outside

18. faculty
close co-
operation
bunnynight © 123RF.com

19. smile, greet, maybe chat
• canteens
• campus
• bus stops, etc.

20. on the
inside

21. smile, greet, chat, consult

22. in the
class-
room

23. covid-19
rabbit
hole
olliethedesigner & frimufilms © 123RF.com

24. in the online
class-
room
peshkov © 123RF.com

25. smile, greet, teach
• laughter
• enthusiasm & energy
• patience
• caring & sincerity

26. encloth-
ed
cognition
mostly

27. approach to teaching
• blended learning
• scaffolding
⮚ mapped to
– ANCIL competencies
– Bloom’s taxonomy
– Gagne’s 9 Events

28. teaching methods
• active learning (hands-on + applied)
• peer learning
• group learning
• jigsaw or puzzle
mostly

29. replies to
teacher-
centered
questions
chatsimo © 123RF.com

30. apps, free & paid
• Mentimeter
• Padlet
• Qualtrics
• Slido polls
mostly

31. mostly
we adapt, not the students
• don’t force them to speak out
• use pertinent examples
• make them comfortable
• teach less, teach slower

32. online issues
• isolation
• tech restraints
• virtual fatigue
• photobombing
• background noise

33. online solutions
• annotations
• simple, varied activities
• frequent breaks for questions
• stories
• laughter & lots of fun

34. global rules of
engage-
ment

35. Thank you so much for your attention.
While you are thinking of any questions you may wish to ask, here are a few photographs of parts of Singapore that have probably never seen before.
local weeds
condominiums
graffiti
hospital grounds

36. Debby Wegener
Senior Librarian
Singapore Institute of
Technology
Email:
Debby.Wegener@SingaporeTech.edu.sg

37. REFERENCES
Adam, H., & Galinsky, A. D. (2019). Reflections on enclothed cognition: Commentary on Burns et al. Journal of Experimental
Social Psychology, 83, 157–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JESP.2018.12.002
Appleton, L. (2020). Academic libraries and student engagement: A literature review. New Review of Academic Librarianship.
Advance online publication. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2020.1784762
Bedford, O., & Chua, S. H. (2018). Everything also I want: An exploratory study of Singaporean kiasuism (fear of losing out).
Culture and Psychology, 24(4), 491–511. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X17693831
Chen, K. L., & Sidhu, M. S. (2015). Engineering students learning preferences in UNITEN: Comparative study and patterns of
learning styles. Educational Technology & Society, 18(3), 266–281. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f6e2
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Conduit, J., Karpen, I. O., & Farrelly, F. (2016). Student engagement: A multiple layer phenomenon. In Making a difference
through marketing (pp. 229–245). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-0464-3_17
Macfarlane, B., & Tomlinson, M. (2017). Critiques of student engagement. Higher Education Policy, 30(1), 1–29.