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Building Relevance within the Classroom

Discover how to build relevance in the undergraduate classroom by facilitating use and making things count. Learn how to identify relevant titles for student projects, teach databases beneficial to students, and embed content within the online classroom.

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Building Relevance within the Classroom

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  1. How do we build relevance? • by facilitating use (not complicating it) • by making things count Building Relevance within the Classroom

  2. Easy versus Complicated

  3. Easy versus Complicated

  4. First Language Spoken by Students Studying Japanese at UBC（2008/09)

  5. In the undergraduate classroom • find out about course content and identify relevant titles that can be used by students for their projects • make sure that examples used in classroom instruction match the current topic being taught • embedding content within the online classroom Facilitating Use

  6. Targeted Instruction • teach databases that are immediately beneficial to students within the course • ensure that students majoring in the discipline will be given instruction on foundational databases / e-resources Facilitating Use

  7. How this means relevance • a. Bearing on or connected with the matter in hand; closely relating to the subject or point at issue; pertinent to a specified thing. • b. Without construction: appropriate or applicable in the (esp. current) context or circumstances; having social, political, etc., relevance Facilitating Use relevant, adj. Oxford English Dictionary. Third edition, December 2009; online version December 2011.

  8. Making an impact on course outcomes • including library assignments within the classroom • making reference transactions mandatory • Advocating importance to colleagues and administrators • raising awareness of how multilingual education requires more, not less • explaining how extra time should be spent on graduate student users working within multicultural and multilingual frameworks Making it Count

  9. Thank you! Shirin Eshghi Japanese Language Librarian shirin.eshghi@ubc.ca

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