#onw2010 Last session of the day! Info Lit Online Tool.
Attending: ‘Using Technology to Reach More Students in Tough Times’ which has 5 semesters of data regarding teaching information literacy online.
Bibliographic instruction sessions (aka the one-shot) has some challenges. For example, too much info in too little time, what impact does it really have, etc.
At WSU like BSU the only place students are guaranteed to attend one of these is in their early Eng 101/102 courses.
If one-shots are flawed can they act as a doorway to information literacy not necessarily the whole piece.
Wow, WSU has used at least 4 different course management systems (i.e. blackboard). Currently, using Angel. Didn’t know you universities could flipflop around like that with course management systems.
Beginning to talk about using Angel to reach students with info lit information BEFORE they get into the one-shot.
WSU has an Information Literacy Education Learning Environment (ILE) which is homegrown. They used students to code it for them. (Students can build cool stuff like this if we let them) It is not simply a tutorial but a space where students take quizzes/essays after watching particular online materials. ILE flips the script. Instead of building assignments from the content of tutorials, they select tutorials from the web (or elsewhere) to support the class assignment. As you connect tutorials for the assignment it pulls from banks of questions which assess information literacy. (Hopefully I am explaining this correctly).
Pretty cool stuff.
Tags: education, information literacy, libraries, OnlineNW
Write assessment oriented questions as opposed to learning oriented questions depending on your needs.
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They developed this from a grant. Now they use this as a potential fund raising tool. Original grant was $5000. Recently, they got donations of $14K by an alumni for this project.
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Using the ILE they have reached 1400 students so far. The presenter himself has only taught 3 in-person sessions himself.
Librarians collaborate with the faculty for their specific class needs. For example, if students seem to not know how to cite things properly. They just select a video showing that and give them a related activity.
Basically it seems like the ILE is an information literacy assignment creator. The faculty member assess or grades those items which aren’t self-grading by the ILE such as essays.
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They also use this a pre-test before students get into the library instruction session so you instruction librarians know what they might focus on.
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Had 173 questions asked 34K times over 5 semesters. Only 173 questions? I can’t tell if that is a little or a lot. Students were highly proficient in evaluating info but had lowest in accessing info. The presenter is wondering if students are just not finding GOOD sources because they don’t know how to use our tools. They know how to evaluate them but can’t FIND where the good sources are.
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This tool (ILE) has allowed librarians to work with classes they wouldn’t normally interact with. This expands the exposure of students to Info Lit as well as customizing it for specific course needs. Neat-o!
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