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Information Literacy Instruction for Online Students: from class
assignments to publishable work
Howard CarrierReference Librarian, Odum LibraryValdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA.
LILAC 27th March 2013
“ITED 7900 Library Research Methods for Online Students”
ITED 7900 “Library Research Methods for Online Students” 3.0 credit hour graduate class taught by a Reference Librarian.
Class delivered entirely online during 7 week summer semester via “BlazeVIEW” (Valdosta State University’s VLE) Currently Blackboard Vista 8 Transitioning to Desire2Learn
Typical student attributes for this class Postgraduate education students▪ Majority enrolled in a Master’s programme (M.Ed. Or Ed.S.)▪ Minority of students are doctoral candidates (Ed.D).▪ Many students are professional educators▪ Non-education students tend to be criminal justice or public policy students
“ITED 7900 Library Research Methods for Online Students”
Typical student attributes for this class▪ First experience of post-graduate study▪ Returning to university education
“ITED 7900 Library Research Methods for Online Students”
Enabling publication of student work produced for this class:
Marketing the idea of seeking publication to students
Information literacy instruction Integrating writing into the ongoing
delivery and assessment of the course
MARKETING ITED 7900
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Benefits to students: A publication to include on a CV Dissemination of high-quality work, in
which much time and effort has been invested
MARKETING ITED 7900
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Benefits to students: Work which may contribute to a resultant dissertation
or thesis Student work is “research led” as per ACRL
Information Literacy Competency Standards Students can “opt out” of publication without penalty
(at least for this class)
MARKETING ITED 7900
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Benefits to students: While quantitative and qualitative research
methodologies are extensively taught at a graduate level, literature searching may not be taught to the same extent
Do not assume that undergraduate studies have prepared you to research a graduate level literature review
MARKETING ITED 7900
Simple evaluation of current skills
MARKETING ITED 7900
The pitfalls of lazy or uncertain searching (a primary source example)
What document may be found using the following citation?
O.C.G.A. § 17-4-20 (2012)
INSTRUCTION: ITED 7900
Encouraging students to make an Annotated Bibliography assignment meaningful to their wider program of study
Formulating a research question Subsequent instruction in: searching;
evaluating; writing; citing
INSTRUCTION: ITED 7900
Instruction provided by: Screen-capture videos created in
Camtasia and uploaded to VLE as mp4 files
Asynchronous discussion boards Synchronous chats
INSTRUCTION: ITED 7900
Ongoing worksheets throughout the class: Allow students practice in searching,
critiquing sources, and writing Provide feedback to students Enable students to work effectively
towards a final Annotated Bibliography of publishable quality within the short, 7 week timeframe
INSTRUCTION: ITED 7900
Some examples… ERIC documents / Gov docs
INSTRUCTION: ITED 7900
A trial run
OUTCOMES
Outcomes (based upon two semesters) Approximately 75% of students agreed to
publication 85% of papers submitted, where a
willingness to publish had been indicated by the student, were of sufficient quality to be published in a collated bibliography
Unwillingness to publish is not an good indicator of weak students or poor quality work
OUTCOMES
Outcomes (based upon two semesters)
An interesting “side-effect” Potentially publishing work in an
institutional repository sparked student interest in searching within repositories and related resources (for example: openDOAR)
OUTCOMES
Ongoing qualitative research (beyond simple student feedback)
REFERENCES
ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency
Central Michigan University Research Readiness Self-Assessment http://rrsa.cmich.edu/
openDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/
INLS 843 Seminar in Public Libraries (taught by Professor Ron Berguist, SILS, UNC Chapel Hill) http://sils.unc.edu/courses
CONTACT
Howard S. CarrierOdum Library, Valdosta State University,Valdosta, GA 31698Tel: (+001) 229-245-3744Email: hscarrier@valdosta.edu
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