A Tale of Two CUREs: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences and Online Information Literacy Instruction
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Session Seven Breakouts
Proposal
In 2017, the Office of Undergraduate Research at our public university was awarded a grant to provide faculty stipends to develop “course-based undergraduate research experiences” (CUREs), which encourage learning outcomes and activities that facilitate group work and active learning environments to foster undergraduate research. In Fall 2019 and Spring 2020, two liaison librarians worked with faculty members in two different disciplines to implement information literacy learning outcomes within CURE courses.
Public Health Education: Social Status and Health is an upper level, online undergraduate course. The Online Learning and Public Health Education Librarian was embedded in this course, and worked with the instructor to develop an innovative research assignment. An interactive video was created, with discussion and quizzing features built in to help students with searching for articles for a group annotated bibliography assignment. Students then created their own videos on the research process and participated in a conversation about research and creating citations.
English: Introduction to Poetry is a lower-level, non-major course that meets a general education requirement. The English Librarian worked with one course instructor to develop a scaffolded set of assignments that would ultimately lead to a public exhibit of student recommendations for books in a donor-funded poetry collection. COVID-19 disrupted these plans, but the course partners adapted the assignment to an online environment to keep the CURE and information literacy outcomes viable.
Join two librarians to hear a tale of two very different successful CURE and information literacy course partnerships.
Presentation Description
In 2017, a public university was awarded a grant to provide faculty stipends to develop “course-based undergraduate research experiences” (CUREs), which encourage learning outcomes and activities that facilitate group work and active learning environments to foster undergraduate research. Join two liaison librarians to hear a tale of two very different, successful CURE course partnerships, with specific examples of creating engagement with students online and information literacy instruction in a virtual environment.
Keywords
Undergraduate research, Interactive video, Embedded librarianship, Liaison, Online learning, Engagement, Information literacy
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Dale, Jenny and Harlow, Samantha, "A Tale of Two CUREs: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences and Online Information Literacy Instruction" (2021). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 38.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2021/2021/38
A Tale of Two CUREs: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences and Online Information Literacy Instruction
Session Seven Breakouts
In 2017, the Office of Undergraduate Research at our public university was awarded a grant to provide faculty stipends to develop “course-based undergraduate research experiences” (CUREs), which encourage learning outcomes and activities that facilitate group work and active learning environments to foster undergraduate research. In Fall 2019 and Spring 2020, two liaison librarians worked with faculty members in two different disciplines to implement information literacy learning outcomes within CURE courses.
Public Health Education: Social Status and Health is an upper level, online undergraduate course. The Online Learning and Public Health Education Librarian was embedded in this course, and worked with the instructor to develop an innovative research assignment. An interactive video was created, with discussion and quizzing features built in to help students with searching for articles for a group annotated bibliography assignment. Students then created their own videos on the research process and participated in a conversation about research and creating citations.
English: Introduction to Poetry is a lower-level, non-major course that meets a general education requirement. The English Librarian worked with one course instructor to develop a scaffolded set of assignments that would ultimately lead to a public exhibit of student recommendations for books in a donor-funded poetry collection. COVID-19 disrupted these plans, but the course partners adapted the assignment to an online environment to keep the CURE and information literacy outcomes viable.
Join two librarians to hear a tale of two very different successful CURE and information literacy course partnerships.
