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Transforming Libraries for Innovative Learning in a 2.0 Environment

Learn how McMaster University Library is embracing emerging technologies to enhance teaching and research, replacing traditional methods with collaborative wikis for engaging student learning in a user-centered academic environment. Explore how the library plays a vital role in supporting faculty and students through innovative approaches. Discover the impact of these changes on learning outcomes and explore the challenges faced by the library in transforming its services.

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Transforming Libraries for Innovative Learning in a 2.0 Environment

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  1. Change andEmerging TechnologiesThe Library’s Role in SupportingTeaching and Learning in a 2.0 Environment Jeff Trzeciak, University Librarian Cathy Moulder, Director of Library Services, Maps, Data & GIS Olga Perkovic, Liaison Librarian, Anthropology & History

  2. Transforming Libraries From traditional “service-provider” to a new understanding of how students learn and how faculty discover new knowledge

  3. About McMaster McMaster University Top 100 Universities worldwide Canada’s most research intensive Recognized as “Canada’s most innovative” Problem-based learning

  4. McMaster University Library Challenges Library in state of decline 1991: Ranked 86th among Association of Research Libraries 2006: Ranked 109th

  5. Significant Challenges Lowest funded research library in Canada Lowest # of librarians in ARL Biggest challenges: Library as silo Library as “book warehouse”

  6. Other Significant Challenge: University in Transition 3 Provosts in 18 months Structural budget problems Changes at VP and Dean levels

  7. Library Transformation • Library Vision • McMaster University Library will be recognized as Canada's most innovative, user-centred, academic library

  8. Library Transformation Mission The University Library advances teaching, learning and research at McMaster by: • teaching students to be successful, ethical information seekers • facilitating access to information resources • providing welcoming spaces for intellectual discovery, and • promoting the innovative adoption of emerging learning technologies

  9. Library Transformation • Two significant accomplishments • Library Liaison Program • Learning 2.0

  10. Wikis in the Libraries • Primary purpose: • Connecting the libraries to our faculty and our students • Secondary: • Emerging technology

  11. Collaborative Partnership I • Geo 4G03 + Library • Canadian Glacier Inventory Project (CGIP) • Data gathering as 4th year class assignment • Traditional impediment = Security

  12. Wiki to the Rescue • Wikis require: • No access to University servers • No html coding or file uploads by TAs • No effort to setup (library-mediated) • No big learning curve

  13. Collaborative Partnership II • Geo 3HZ3 + Library • Major assignment for 3rd year class on segregation in world cities • Assignment needed to be: • Research-based • Group work (not homogenous students) • Capstone to previous learning

  14. Wiki Encore • Wikis offer: • Collaborative student experience • WYSIWYG interface and cool web functions • Integration of research, maps, graphs, illustrations, links • Creative potential • Element of surprise and innovation

  15. Wiki Selection Criteria • Remotely hosted • Free • WYSIWYG • Minimal learning curve • Functions: edit history, page comparison, user reports, revert to previous version • Discussion and comment areas • Minimal advertisements

  16. http://www.wikimatrix.org/

  17. Wiki Start-up • Library staff: • Created wikis, created pages for info resources, created “page stubs” • Invited faculty and teaching assistants as moderators • Teaching staff: • Created pages for introduction and student instructions • Invited students as writers

  18. Geo 4G03 wiki

  19. Geo 3HZ3 wiki

  20. Assessment • Wikis replaced traditional outcomes • Marking criteria: • Standard essay-writing skills (including completeness, analysis of content) • Artistic elements (creativity, originality, graphic design) • Participation (number of comments, evidence of collaboration)

  21. Results • Public visibility and writing for a diverse audience = motivating factors • Good quality writing and editing • Web writing has to be more “interesting”

  22. Students engaged

  23. Students Artistic

  24. Students Artistic (cont.)

  25. Students using New Technologies

  26. Unexpected Results • Collaboration • Technical difficulties • Difficulties capturing or destroying the content afterwards • Repeat experience not as positive

  27. Collaborative Partnership III • History 2P03 + Library • Inquiry model; small class setting • Research Skills set (1 component of 4) • Wiki purpose

  28. Wiki Start-up • Librarian: • Created wiki, 5 section pages and research resources pages, student instructions • Invited faculty as administrators • Faculty: • Added content and exemplars • Admin staff invited students as writers

  29. Historical inquiry wiki

  30. Section 5 wiki

  31. Results • Slow start; modifications sparked activity • Wiki as a research resource • Wiki as a communication tool

  32. Unexpected Results • Faculty feedback • Student feedback • Face to face sharing

  33. What Did We Learn? • Be selective: • Work with early innovators • Choose assignment tasks carefully • Know your students • Consider overlapping technologies • Wikis have limitations

  34. Collaboration is the Reward • Faculty and Librarians working together on learning objectives, assignment creation, marking • Strengthening the Liaison program • Writing papers and funding requests together • Extending the CGIP wiki to include an American class on remote sensing

  35. Emerging TechnologiesOpen Doors

  36. Is It Working? • Library offering Social Toolbox • 2.0 software (blogs, wikis) for campus community • Campus understands in the context of “access” and “preservation”

  37. Broader Context: Library asPartner in Teaching and Learning • Inherited Classroom Audio Visual Services • Staff of 10 • Budget of $1m (approx) • Responsible for all classroom technologies • Opportunity to integrate instructional technologies, academic resources, and support services

  38. Campus Leadership • Innovative Learning campaign item • Task Force on Teaching and Learning • Burlington campus learning space design • iSci, Honours research science

  39. Libraries as Academic Computing • Mills • State-of-the-art classroom • Videoconferencing facilities • Text-analysis centre? • Thode Learning Commons • Grid computing? • Visualization facilities? • Collaboratory

  40. Future • Central part of a CFI proposal • 3D Web research • Augmented reality • Simulation

  41. Thank you

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