Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Session Six Breakouts
Proposal
This session will describe a unique collaboration that resulted in development of a strategic research assignment design supported by relevant information literacy sessions. This effort stems from an existing relationship between research librarians and an instructor who was previously a graduate assistant in Research & Instruction Services and became an instructor of a general education course in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Through this collective, a synergistic arrangement developed where librarians contribute to research assignment design and the instructor contributes to developing the information literacy sessions to prepare students for finding, evaluating, and understanding relevant scholarly articles early in their college career. We will provide suggestions for developing librarian-instructor relationships that help identify student pain points as well as guide the development of customized classroom assignments relevant to beginning a student’s research path. We will also introduce strategies we have found successful in helping students locate and synthesize relevant scholarly articles, in the classroom and online, for more effective information literacy session activities.
Short Description
This session will describe a unique librarian-instructor collaboration where librarians contribute to research assignment design and the instructor contributes to developing the information literacy sessions. This effectively prepares students for finding, evaluating, and understanding relevant scholarly articles early in their college career. We will provide suggestions for developing similar relationships to support student success and introduce strategies we have found useful in helping students locate and synthesize scholarly articles.
Keywords
higher education, academic libraries, student success, communication sciences and disorders, collaboration, teaching and learning
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
O'Neill, Brittany L.; LeBlanc, Allen; and Larsen, Deirdre, "Three's Company: Collaborative Instructional Design on a Librarian-Instructor Team" (2021). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 35.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2021/2021/35
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Information Literacy Commons, Other Communication Commons, Speech and Hearing Science Commons, Speech Pathology and Audiology Commons
Three's Company: Collaborative Instructional Design on a Librarian-Instructor Team
Session Six Breakouts
This session will describe a unique collaboration that resulted in development of a strategic research assignment design supported by relevant information literacy sessions. This effort stems from an existing relationship between research librarians and an instructor who was previously a graduate assistant in Research & Instruction Services and became an instructor of a general education course in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Through this collective, a synergistic arrangement developed where librarians contribute to research assignment design and the instructor contributes to developing the information literacy sessions to prepare students for finding, evaluating, and understanding relevant scholarly articles early in their college career. We will provide suggestions for developing librarian-instructor relationships that help identify student pain points as well as guide the development of customized classroom assignments relevant to beginning a student’s research path. We will also introduce strategies we have found successful in helping students locate and synthesize relevant scholarly articles, in the classroom and online, for more effective information literacy session activities.
