Transcript E-Learning Initiatives to Enhance Information and Digital

Lilly Conference 2012
E-Learning Initiatives to
Enhance Information &
Digital Literacy
Kim Duckett, NCSU
Lauren Pressley, WFU
Beth Filar Williams, UNCG
Session Objective: to highlight a variety of ways librarians can
support online learning through use of technologies
Three case studies:
1) Synchronous online instruction, a workshop
model; asynchronous tutorial.
2) Videos being used both synchronously &
asynchronously, point-of-need and incorporated
into instruction
3) Asynchronous, interactive, semester-long,
instruction course
Getting started @ UNCG Libraries
• Why? 12-15% growth last year in online in
student credit hours
• Getting a virtual room (Blackboard Collaborate)
• Internal training
• Technologies:
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workshop webpage
google calendar
google form
slideshare
• Marketing/outreach
Types of online sessions
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Orientations
One shot class sessions
Webinars/Online Workshops
Holding office hours
Post conference round-ups
Meetings
Webinar Topics
http://library.uncg.edu/info/distance_education/onlineworkshops.aspx
• Introduction to EndNote
• Google for Research
• Scholarly Management: Staying Current with
your Research
• Introduction to Creative Commons
• 30 min tool sessions: RTM, Jing, Twitter,
Dropbox, etc.
Library Orientations
• For students, faculty
– 30 minutes
– Open, no rsvp
• For specific programs
– Liberal Studies, Business,
Public Health
– Scheduled
Weather Vane Compass by incurable_hippie on flickr.com [CC BY-NC 2.0]
Virtual Attendance
Registered
Attended
General (open) Orientations
(offered 18
sessions)
4/total
Program-specific orientations
(1/semester)
8/average
Scholarly Management
36
23
Google for Research
41
20
Remember the Milk
13
9
Intro to Creative Commons
19
11
Note – cannot get stats for each recorded session, overall only
Marketing
• Library’s workshop page
• Teaching & Learning Center
calendar
• Academic Program
Coordinators
• Instructional Tech
Consultants
• Direct emails to DE
students & faculty
• Through library liaisons to
their faculty
• Word of mouth/positive
experiences
Soapbox Zone by ruminatrixon flickr.com [CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0]
Collaboration
• Cross departmental
within library
• With students
– Especially Library
Studies grad students
• Include non-librarians
– Find people with skills
to share
• Outside your university
Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, CA circa 1939 by LOC on Flickr
Lessons Learned - Marketing
• Email reminders
– Requiring sign-ups
helps
• Key: buy-in from
instructors/programs
• Target sessions to
specific programs
On Target by viZZZual on flickr.com [CC-BY 2.0]
Lessons Learned - Tech
• Include contact for tech
support before/during
session
• Best to include second
person
• Be cautious about audio
for participants
Laptop Cat by By wabisabi2015 on flickr [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]
Lessons Learned - Engaging
• Active Learning is just as important online as it
is in person!
– Ask questions every
3-5 minutes
– Use polling yes/no or
A-E choices
– Multiple voices a plus
– Use tools like breakout rooms, app sharing,
students as moderators
Sleeping student in Waseda computers room by Gnurou on flickr.com [CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0]
Co-presenter slides not included
NCSU Libraries
Big Picture Videos
Kim Duckett
Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning
North Carolina State University Libraries
Teaching Students “In” and “On”
Today’s Information Environment
Lauren Pressley
Head of Instruction, ZSR Library
Co-presenter slides not included