Courseware and Collaboration: Teaming Up with Instructional Technology Liaisons

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Courseware and Collaboration Teaming Up with
Instructional Technology Liaisons

• Anne Fullerton Liaison Librarian
• Katherine Lithgow LT3 Faculty Liaison
• Jackie Stapleton Liaison Librarian

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Topics

• CMS Features, Barriers, Strategies (Anne)
• Liaison with Librarians Why How E-Portfolios
  (Katherine)
• Case Study Info Lit for Health Studies
  integrated into UW - ACE (Jackie)

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for Digital Library Resources for CMS

• Failure to connect courseware with library
  resources not only diminishes investments in
  both
• it also wastes the time and expertise that
  campus librarians invest in developing course
  resources.
• David Cohen, CLIRinghouse, March 2002

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Poll

• CMS(s) on your campus?
• Blackboard WebCT
• Desire2Learn Sakai
• Angel Moodle
• 2. Your Access to CMS?
• Instructor or Teaching Asst
• None
• Other

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FEATURES We Need ------- CMS Has

• Survey tool
• Test tool
• Resources / Library tab
• Lessons / Courses tab
• Drop box
• Discussion board / chat room
• Class email
• Permissions

• Students current IL skills
• What Students learned?
• Library, guides, ppt
• Instruction module space
• Submit assignment
• Questions during research
• Announce changes etc.
• Do it Myself

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Why the Barriers?

• Faculty expect students can/will
• find quality resources
• Faculty Librarian disconnect
• No promotion - Library or Librarian role
• CMS links to content cartridges.
• CMS admin. believe integration impossible
• Library guide tool disabled

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Strategies for Removing Barriers

• Get to know the CMS administrator / liaisons
• Talk with Faculty
• CMS Liaison Librarian
• Learn to use the CMS
• Participate in CMS training

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UW ACE and Support

• 6 Faculty Liaisons
• Initial course set-up
• Pedagogy e-learning
• Promote library resources
• and librarians to faculty
• Bridge to e-learning research
• projects
• LT3 Liaison Librarian
• Promote IL integration
• Librarians resource sandbox

Angel 7.1 - our CMS http//www.angellearning.
com/
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Why Working with Librarians Helps Me

• Often it is not the actual assignment that
  is challenging it is the fact that students have
  not developed the necessary information literacy
  skills to help with the assignment.

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Integrating Information Literacy Skills With the
Course Assignments

• Slowly, we began to consciously integrate the
  information literacy skills with the particular
  assignments rather than treating information
  literacy as something that was separate from the
  course.

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Helping Students Succeed

• With UW-ACE (Angel Course Environment- our Course
  Management System), I am now able to give
  librarians access to the course.
• the librarian is able to communicate with
  students directly from within the course
• helping integrate the information literacy more
  closely to the course and activity
• Students begin to recognize how interconnected
  the information literacy skills are with their
  course, and with their success in a program

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Helping Instructors Succeed

• Instructors usually dont think to ask the
  librarians to help them develop their students
  information literacy skills
• Activities can be imported from one course and
  adapted for another course- the librarian often
  facilitates the activity
• Working with a variety of AHS instructors gives
  me the opportunity to see areas where concepts
  can be developed and built upon throughout the
  program, including information literacy skills.

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Eportfolios Something to Consider?

• An example
• Eportfolios help students make connections
  between what is learned in the classroom with
  what they learn in community and workplace
  settings.
• Students can begin to view the skills as
  something that they develop over the course of
  the program, and not a series of discreet
  disconnected activities that are specific to a
  particular course only

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Case Study

• Concept Teach information literacy concepts
  throughout the Kinesiology and Health Studies
  programs

KIN 3303rd year
KIN 2172nd year
BIOL 1301st year
Core course in Biology, Health, Kinesiology
Core course in Health and Kinesiology
Core course in Health and Kinesiology
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Beginning Steps

• Met with Applied Health Sciences Instructional
  liaison, Katherine Lithgow. Discussed
• List of core courses and names of instructors
• Recommend instructors who are using UW-ACE or who
  have been open to discussions about teaching
• Informed about Bio130 info lit materials
• UW-ACE design and quiz options

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Next steps

• Met with KIN 217 faculty member
• New faculty
• Interested in information literacy
• Looking for a way to improve class marks
• Prepared course material
• Library Test Course work space

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Lesson design
KIN 217 UW-ACE course

• 3 Modules
• Flow of Information
• Journal Articles and PubMed
• Not all Journal Are Created Equal
• Assessment
• 2 online quizzes
• Annotated bibliography
• Submitted to UW Instructional Resources
  repository

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Advantages to using CMS

• Communication tools
• Features of online quizzes
• Automatic grading
• View student submissions
• Many quiz design options
• Students are familiar with CMS environment
• Librarian has understanding of course materials
  and assignments and how they are presented to the
  students

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Where we are heading?

• Incorporate Info lit component into the
  curriculum
• Encourage students to recognize that information
  literacy is developed over the duration of their
  university career
• E portfolios
• Files section in UW- ACE
• Encourage faculty to start thinking about
  developing these skills within the course

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Finally, Your Next Step Discussions on Your
Campus

• Who manages CMS? Librarian role?
• Integrating library resources What works? What
  doesnt?
• CMS is Library unfriendly? Changes?
• Barriers to Librarian integration? How to
  overcome barriers?