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Developing an Online Credit-bearing Information Fluency Course: Lessons Learned
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Blakiston, Rebecca Mery, Yvonne Sult, Leslie |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | In the fall of 2007, an advisor from University College, the university’s college for undecided majors, approached librarians on the Undergraduate Services Team (UST) at the University of Arizona (UA) Library about developing a onecredit online information literacy class for undergraduate students. The advisor believed such a course could assist with student retention while helping students acquire needed information literacy skills. While the UA Library has a long history of offering for-credit as well as one-shot instruction sessions, this collaboration represented the first time that the UA Library had an avenue for offering a for-credit course completely online. Although UST librarians had previous opportunities to work as co-instructors for classes, this class presented the first opportunity for the librarians to work as the instructors of record for a class. Being the instructors of record for an online class provided us with a number of heretofore unavailable opportunities, the most important being the ability to oversee all aspects of teaching and assessing students. Along with these benefits, the course gave us the opportunity to better understand how to use Desire 2 Learn (D2L), the campus course management system, as an instructional tool and how to structure an online learning environment that would ensure student success. Finally, it provided an avenue to increase the visibility of the UA Library’s instructional role on campus. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=loexconf2009 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
