This was our latest workshop for liaison librarians. Thanks to Donna, one of our liaisons, and Erika, from McMaster’s Centre for Leadership in Learning, for helping to put it together and facilitate it.
We looked at learning styles (based on Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory) and how they impact teaching, determining “essential” content, active learning and lesson plans as a pedagogical and organizational tool. Overall, the workshop went well, although we misjudged our time more than a little (the teaching librarian’s Achilles’ heel!) 
We are going to continue to investigate active learning (both the theory behind it and potential methods), and some participants suggested they would like to see different ways to address the different sections of the class such as “motivation” and “pre-assessment”, which I think would be a nice tie-in between workshops.
I am hoping we can archive and share our lesson plans, and then have some kind of discussion/activity to share best practices, successes, and lessons learned.
