Post on 14-Jan-2016
description
Information Literacy Modular Activities through
Blackboard
Carol FranckSUNY Potsdam
CIT 2002
Why this, why now?
• Information Literacy, in vogue
• Accountability and assessment
• Everyone’s an “expert” (or so they believe)
Driving Forces
• SUNY Potsdam General Education
• SUNY Administration– GER (General Education Requirements)– GEAR (General Education Assessment
Review)
• Middle States
• Employer Expectations of Graduates
Information Literacy
• ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
– http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html
Information Literacy
Formulating questions Knowing what type of resources to look for Knowing how to look for those resources Evaluating search results Interpreting the information found
The Past: One-shot library “bibliographic instruction” sessions
The Future: A coordinated, programmatic, and developmental approach to Information Literacy.
The Project
Goal:
To provide instruction in basic Information Literacy skills/concepts that is flexible, assessable, and reduces duplication on the part of the student.
The Project
Objectives:
• To determine what constitutes the core set of “basic” skills and concepts
• To create an electronic tutorial for each item in the core set
• To incorporate interactive assessment measures within each tutorial
• To be able to track which students have successfully completed each tutorial
The Project
The Reality
• Existing online tutorials
• Significant body of literature on BI
• Blackboard
Blackboard 5
PROS
• Familiar to students
• Familiar to faculty
• Assessment features built in
• Grades/tracking recorded automatically
Blackboard 5
CONS
• Not designed for content, but for access
• Limited flexibility in what you can do
• Limited flexibility across courses
Contact Information
• This presentation may be found at http://www2.potsdam.edu/franckcr/cit.htm
• e-mail: franckcr@potsdam.edu