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Modern-Day Expats

This guide provides a comprehensive training approach aimed at enhancing the information literacy of U.S. professionals living abroad. It identifies key traits and information needs of expats, detailing essential skills for effective research and communication in a foreign context. A structured lesson plan includes engaging activities tailored to various learning styles, enabling expats to connect with resources and manage changes in their lives. Additional tools and templates are provided to facilitate practical implementation and support ongoing learning needs.

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Modern-Day Expats

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  1. Modern-Day Expats U.S. Professionals Working Abroad An Information Literacy Training Approach

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. Expats – Information Needs See Peppas, 2004; and Meijer et al, 2012 for more details.

  5. Training Approach – Key Skills A lesson plan was developed to address two key skill areas for information literacy for U.S. expats: • Ability to research (search, find) and apply information on a range of topics, with different levels of complexity, using resources available • Ability to produce and share information, using one or more online communication tools, to keep in contact with friends and family back home

  6. 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.

  7. Training Approach – Activities & Learning Styles McCarthy’s Four Learning Styles Keller’s (as described by Small) ARCS Model

  8. Skills & Competencies Rubric

  9. 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/

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