Publications
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27056
2024-03-28T17:44:05ZExperiential Learning and Open Education: Partnering with Students to Evaluate OER Accessibility
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27656
Experiential Learning and Open Education: Partnering with Students to Evaluate OER Accessibility
Reed, Michelle; Turner, Ciara
This chapter focuses on an open textbook evaluation project undertaken by the Open Education Librarian and a student intern at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). UTA offers a Minor in Disability Studies, an interdisciplinary program with requirements that all students graduating with the minor complete a semester-long, supervised internship in order to apply knowledge and skills acquired in their coursework. In Spring 2017, UTA Libraries initiated a partnership with Disability Studies administrators to provide experiential learning opportunities to undergraduate students interested in gaining experience in publishing and education. The first intern paired with the Libraries on this project was tasked with researching accessibility standards and publishing practices to create evaluation criteria to determine the accessibility of open textbooks available through the Open Textbook Library. This chapter presents the process of creating evaluation criteria, describes the evaluation of a prioritized list of open textbooks, and discusses key findings from the project and recommendations for the creation and use of open educational resources.
This chapter originally appeared in OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians, edited by Andrew Wesolek, Jonathan Lashley, and Anne Langley. Pacific University Press, 2018. http://www.lib.pacificu.edu/pup-oer/
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZCreating Learning Opportunities in Open Education: An Exploration of the Intersections of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27655
Creating Learning Opportunities in Open Education: An Exploration of the Intersections of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication
Reed, Michelle
Since publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries white paper on the intersections of scholarly communication and information literacy in 2013, a growing number of projects and programs embodying librarianship at the Intersections have been described in library literature. This work has focused primarily on building stronger partnerships between information literacy and scholarly communication librarians, engaging undergraduate students in topics of scholarly communication, and integrating data literacies into outreach and instruction. However, discussion of open education through this lens has been largely absent from the literature. This chapter bridges that gap. It presents the theoretical background of the Intersections and explores open education’s connection to information literacy and librarians’ long history of teaching within higher education.
This chapter originally appeared in OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians, edited by Andrew Wesolek, Jonathan Lashley, and Anne Langley. Pacific University Press, 2018. http://www.lib.pacificu.edu/pup-oer/
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZEngaging Our Student Partners: Student Leadership in a Library-Initiated Experiential Learning Project
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27143
Engaging Our Student Partners: Student Leadership in a Library-Initiated Experiential Learning Project
Reed, Michelle; Duncan, Philip; Halegoua, Germaine
This chapter discusses aspects of Undergraduates Speak: Our Rights and Access, a library-initiated and student-led pilot project aimed at advancing educational initiatives in the realm of scholarly communication. The project provided undergraduate students with opportunities to engage in experiential learning. Experiential learning, commonly defined as “learning by doing,” emphasizes the role that experience and self-reflection play in the learning process. In recent years, universities across the country have increasingly committed to providing such opportunities for undergraduate students. One reason for this emphasis is because experiential activities have a demonstrated impact on student retention and engagement. Among these high-impact practices are undergraduate research, internship, and service-learning opportunities. This chapter examines all three via Undergraduates Speak, where undergraduate students actively participated in exploratory research at multiple stages along the research continuum.
This chapter originally appeared in Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian: Case Studies and Best Practices, edited by Merinda Kaye Hensley and Stephanie Davis-Kahl. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZImage of Research: Celebrating and Sharing Undergraduate Work
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/27110
Image of Research: Celebrating and Sharing Undergraduate Work
Reed, Michelle; Hensley, Merinda
In 2013 and 2015 respectively, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) and the University of Kansas (KU) implemented an Image of Research competition, a library-led initiative designed to showcase original research of undergraduate students. The Image of Research competition is a multidisciplinary competition celebrating the diversity and breadth of undergraduate student research by inviting students to submit entries consisting of an image and brief text that articulates how the image relates to their research. The work of the students is shared widely and archived in the institutional repository, providing students with an easy-entry experience to “publishing” their research. Additionally, students are rewarded with monetary and category prizes. The goals for Image of Research are threefold: (1) Provide students with an opportunity to reflect on what their research means to them and how to represent that research in a visual manner. (2) Proactively engage with undergraduate students as creators of information. (3) Address educational issues around scholarly communication by designing learning opportunities that help students confront the complexities of copyright and their online presence. At Illinois, project personnel were inspired by the University of Chicago Library’s Image of Research competition, established in 2008), and KU began their competition after reading about Illinois in a column for C&RL News outlining examples of the intersections of scholarly communication and information literacy. Both libraries were looking for avenues to engage with undergraduate students participating in high-impact educational practices as part of wider information literacy and outreach goals.
This chapter originally appeared in Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian: Case Studies and Best Practices, edited by Merinda Kaye Hensley and Stephanie Davis-Kahl. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017.
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z