Michael C. Alewine is the Outreach and Distance Education Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. For more than 18 years Michael has taught both undergraduate and graduate information-literacy courses and research seminars. He has published and presented on information literacy, student learning and motivation, and teaching and learning in online environments. He also teaches college composition and continually experiments with new ways to motivate new college students to become confident academic researchers and writers.
Michael holds a Master of Library Science from North Carolina Central University, a Master of Science in Instructional Technology from East Carolina University, and is currently finishing a Master of Arts in English at Eastern Carolina University.