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Information Literacy

Information Literacy. Collaborations. Some Numbers. Student population (Headcount 2009/10) 36,000 Total enrolment 25,500 Undergraduate Students 2,100 Graduate Students (Master’s/Doctoral) 8,500 Continuing Education Students

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Information Literacy

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  1. Information Literacy Collaborations

  2. Some Numbers Student population (Headcount 2009/10) 36,000 Total enrolment • 25,500 Undergraduate Students • 2,100 Graduate Students (Master’s/Doctoral) • 8,500Continuing Education Students Source: Ryerson University Planning Office. http://www.ryerson.ca/upo/

  3. Library Instruction Statistics 2006-2011 56% increase in number of students taught since 2006

  4. (2011) We’re reaching ~40% of the total number of students (36,000 headcount) through instruction(excluding service provided through the Reference Desk, VR, online tutorials, one-on-one help)(~25 librarians)

  5. Types of Instruction Offered • In-class Sessions • Drop-in Sessions • One-on-One Sessions • Online Tools: • Podcast library tour • Database tutorials • Short videos (“Ryerson Research Minutes”) • Blackboard integration (More on this later) • Course-specific tutorials. More on this later • http://www.ryerson.ca/library/tutorials/index.html

  6. Library Presence in the University (Teaching) Senate Learning and Teaching Committee – Librarian presence for 10+ years Ryerson Learning and Teaching Office: Workshops, committees, conference planning, etc. Ryerson Academic Integrity Committee Librarians very active in the annual Faculty Conference (planning and presenting) Faculty Teaching Chairs

  7. Faculty Teaching Chairs • Established by the Provost in August 2010 • Promote best practices in teaching in the university (professional development programs, workshops, presentation, surveys, etc.) • 7 Faculty Teaching Chairs (including 1 Library Teaching Chair) • Each Teaching Chair chairs a Learning and Teaching Committee within their faculty [Library]

  8. Faculty Teaching Chairs Model

  9. Library Learning and Teaching Committee and the Teaching Chairs • Provides a mechanism by which the library has a seat at each Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee • Greater exposure for the library: L&T Committees provide a conduit for introducing and promoting new library initiatives, projects, faculty workshops, collaborative efforts (assignment design, IL integration, etc.) into faculties and departments • A chance to reach faculties that have been low library users, e.g. Engineering and Science.

  10. Projects (Library L&T Committee) 2011 Workshop for faculty on creating effective assignments Workshop for faculty on publishing, journal impact factors, open access publishing and the Digital Commons. Development of online information literacy tutorials in collaboration with faculty. RE:Search Online Information Literacy Tutorials … (later)

  11. Library/Course Integrated Initiatives • BUS 100 • Interior Design • Social Sciences and Humanities • Arts and Contemporary Studies

  12. Library/Course Integrated Initiatives (cont’d) • ACS 102 (Arts & Contemporary Studies) Foundation Course for all incoming Arts students • Librarians worked with professor in developing course content, delivering lectures, leading tutorials, creating assessment tools, providing office hours. • Full integration of library content into course—followed ACRL Info Lit Standards. • Librarian present at every lecture and tutorial. First class held in Library.

  13. Pre-test and post-tests administered. • 26-question assessment tool based on the 5 ACRL Information Literacy Standards • 1st test. Before course started. • 2nd test End of course. • 3rd. Test 6 months after course ended (Did students retain skills learned?) Findings: Information literacy skills increased significantly over the length of the course and most students retained the skills 6 months later. Reed, M. J., Kinder, D., & Farnum C. (2007). Collaboration between librarians and faculty to teach information literacy at one Ontario university: Experiences and outcomes. Journal of Information Literacy, 1(3), 29-46.

  14. BUS 100 Interior Design

  15. RE:Search Online Tutorial System • A Web-based tool for creating information literacy tutorials • Developed by a team of librarians at the University of Toronto in collaboration with interested faculty members. • Tutorials are created through collaboration between librarian and course instructor • Designed to cater to research needs at the course level. • Allows professors and librarians to create content, exercises and feedback tailored to course content

  16. RE:Search Cont’d • Structured to present a framework for scaffolded learning and to develop mastery of basic concepts and advanced processes in research and writing • Ryerson is partnering with UT in creating modules to add to the pool. • Modules can taken and adapted for other courses (UT and Ryerson)

  17. RE:Search Cont’d 5 modules based on Information Literacy Standards and the learning objectives of Bloom’s Taxonomy: [Knowledge-Comprehension-Application-Analysis-Synthesis-Evaluation]

  18. Must start with a research model relevant to the course: e.g. • PICO (Population/Intervention/Comparison/Outcome) • 5Ws+H (Who/What/Where/When/Why/How) • SRO/Systems Research Organizing (Context/Client/Intervention/Outcomes) • All tutorial content created must reflect the selected model • Have piloted the project with a Graduate (Master’s) Nursing Informatics course. • Will be promoting it to the faculties (through the Faculty Teaching Chairs/Committees) in the fall. • Business faculty is very interested, as is Engineering and Science

  19. RE:Search Tutorials listing: http://webapps.utsc.utoronto.ca/itcdf/start.php MN8932 (Nursing Informatics) +35 more

  20. Benefits • Tailored to course content • Collaboration with faculty in developing tutorial • Excellent resource for distance education students • Easy interface, content can be changed/added • Students get feedback, can work at their own pace

  21. Embedding Library Resources into Blackboard • Working on research guide content at the subject or course level to embed it into the course management system (Blackboard) • Created a Blackboard building block that Faculty members can add to their course shells • automatically links data based on the course code •  Can create generic items at the subject level (e.g. NUR, for nursing) or we can get very specific, to a specific course, year and section • Can tailor content to assignments: suggested databases, search strategies, etc.

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