Information Literacy in the Disciplines Guide | Instruction Section Website Instruction Section Website The Instruction Section is part of ACRL, a division of ALA. Skip to content Information Literacy in the Disciplines Guide This site contains links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education. Arts & Humanities Cultural Studies Professional Studies Science & Engineering Social Sciences Other Standards & Resources Note: The discipline titles above are based on the National Center for Education Statistics’ Classification of Instructional Programs (2000 Edition). ©2015 American Library Association 50 E Huron St., Chicago IL 60611 1.800.545.2433Copyright StatementPrivacy Policy Instruction Section Website Proudly powered by WordPress.
CORA: Community of Online Research Assignments | an open access resource for faculty and librarians Available Lessons – New Literacies Alliance Reading Scientific Research Opens in a new windowAcademic research articles have a structure and language that is different from our other reading materials such as textbooks. This lesson can help students new to academic research understand these differences and learn strategies for finding information in such articles. Opens in a new windowThis lesson is also available in the Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online project database. Mapped to ACRL FrameworkOpens in a new window Searching as Strategic Exploration, knowledge practice 8Opens in a new window Lesson created by Alice Anderson, Ashley Stark, Prasanna Vaduvathiriyan, Rachel Vukas, and Robyn Hartman in 2018. Citations Opens in a new windowCitations are more than just a formality that protects against plagiarism. Lesson created by Robyn Hartman, Julie Hartwell, Geoffrey Iverson, Eric Kowalik, Kendall Roemer, and Matt Upson in 2016. Scholarly Conversations Question Authority Value of Information
Instruction | CARLI ACT UP: Evaluating Sources and Pushing Against Privilege Dawn Stahura from Salem State University Presented on April 7, 2020 Inclusive Information Literacy, #InclusiveInfoLit: Resources from the Twitter Chats A bibliography suggested by #InclusiveInfoLIt attendees. A Work in Process: Cultivating Inclusive Classrooms Robin Harris, Michelle Oh, and Alyssa Vincent from Northeastern Illinois University Presented on March 12, 2019 Descriptive outline, presenter's slides, and reading lists Intrusive Librarianship Annette Alvarado, Loyola University Chicago Presented on February 13, 2019 Descriptive outline Train the Trainer: Ideas & Tips to Help Faculty Teach Information Literacy Marielle McNeal, North Park University Presented on March 19, 2018 Descriptive outline Leading Online Sessions: Tips for Engaging Webinars Stephanie Richter & Cameron Wills, Northern Illinois University (click for presenter bios) Presented on December 6, 2017 Descriptive outline Curriculum Mapping Faculty Collaboration (Webinar)
History Assessments Beyond the Bubble unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to create History Assessments of Thinking (HATs). Explore over 130 easy-to-use assessments that measure students' historical thinking rather than recall of facts. There are 10 “flagship” assessments, each marked with a ribbon. Click here for a complete list of HATs.
Frontiers | Hidden Impacts of OER: Effects of OER on Instructor Ratings and Course Selection | Education Introduction The rapid rise in textbook costs in the United States (US Public Interest Research Group, 2014) has motivated a drive to increase the use of open educational resources (OER), which are freely available and have liberal copyright licenses which allow for modification of content (i.e., editing, remixing). There has been a related push to conduct research on OER to ensure that educators are not trading the burden of high textbook costs for a subpar learning experience. One popular approach to studying OER is the Cost, Outcomes, Use, Perceptions (COUP; Bliss et al., 2013) framework. This framework has guided much of the early research on OER and provides a multi-faceted view of how use of OER can affect both students and instructors. Further, much of the work focused on the perceptions portion of the COUP framework has exclusively examined student and instructor perceptions of the open course materials. Study 1 Methods Participants Table 1. Procedure and Materials Table 2. Results
Chapter 2. Digital Collections | Burke | Library Technology Reports LMS Embedded Librarianship LMS embedded librarians are engaged in student learning according to the Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2013. They confer with faculty members to discover what their learning outcomes are and what their research assignments entail. After considering what students will have to know and do as researchers, the librarian identifies which subject databases are most appropriate. The LMS embedded librarian might work in the following manner. Normally the embedded librarian will include screencasts or screenshots that demonstrate how to conduct efficient online searching, explain research terminology such as peer-reviewed, describe a discipline-specific thesaurus such as the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or codes used in business research such as the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), or introduce a mnemonic system for evaluating websites such as the CRAAP Test: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose. Audio
Bring your lessons to life with Expeditions The Google for Education team is committed to supporting teaching and learning from anywhere, at any time, on any device. For the past 5 years, we've been proud to enable immersive VR and AR learning experiences for millions of students around the world with Google Expeditions and Tour Creator. As schools around the world reimagine education from the ground up for a hybrid world, we've also been thinking deeply about how to adjust our tools to meet the moment and simultaneously build for the future. We've heard and recognize that immersive experiences with VR headsets are not always accessible to all learners and even more so this year, as the transition to hybrid learning has presented challenges for schools to effectively use Expeditions. To make Expeditions VR tours available to everyone, we're migrating the majority of them to Google Arts & Culture's free site and application. For additional information, please see the Expeditions Help Center.
Tenure and Promotion - DOERS3 A critical part of sustaining Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education is recognizing the contributions by instructors who create and improve them as part of their professional work. In order to aid this effort, Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success (DOERS3) has developed an adaptable advisory model to help guide faculty as they attempt to include their OER work in their tenure and promotion portfolios. This model is in no way exhaustive and will likely be most useful as either a way for faculty to start thinking about how to best fit their OER work into their local T&P guidelines or as an OER adapted to those local concerns. Download File Download File
Chapter 1. LMS Embedded Librarianship and the Educational Role of Librarians | Burke | Library Technology Reports LMS Embedded Librarianship Librarians have long sought new ways to reach out to their users and support those users’ research needs. In the age of limited collections of printed materials, libraries drew researchers and readers into their edifices to make use of the library’s resources. With the digitization of many materials, librarians now serve a much more physically distributed clientele that uses the library’s resources from home and mobile devices as well as in-house. The larger idea of embedded librarianship was suggested by Barbara Dewey in her 2004 article on library collaboration within institutions.1 She recommended that librarians become embedded in various forms and facets of university life. Embedding themselves in classes to interact with students about library research corresponds to a larger librarian role as educator. LMS embedded librarianship takes the embedding concept and librarians’ educational role into the virtual environment of the LMS. The LMS Environment Sakai
Civic Online Reasoning If young people are not prepared to critically evaluate the information that bombards them online, they are apt to be duped by false claims and misleading arguments. To help teachers address these critical skills, we’ve developed assessments of civic online reasoning—the ability to judge the credibility of digital information about social and political issues. These assessments ask students to reason about online content. As part of MediaWise, the Stanford History Education Group is developing and evaluating new civic online reasoning lesson plans for middle and high school students. Nine New Lawsuits Target ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Programs, Alleging Antitrust Violations Student complaints about the digital textbook and courseware bundles now assigned in many college classes have escalated into a new batch of legal challenges. Nine lawsuits filed in March, April and May against major textbook companies and retailers take aim at their bulk deals with colleges to offer online course materials, sometimes referred to as “inclusive access” programs. Through these deals, colleges become digital book brokers, selling students access codes for packaged digital texts and online homework systems created by commercial publishers. These programs have drawn criticism because some students would rather shop around on their own for better deals. The new lawsuits argue that inclusive access deals strangle the used book market and therefore drive up textbook prices. “If one singular publisher did this alone, it wouldn’t necessarily drive up prices. Pearson, McGraw Hill and Follett defended their inclusive access programs in email interviews with EdSurge.