Integrating Information Literacy into an Online Graduate Course

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Integrating Information Literacy into an Online
Graduate Course

• Ted Jones, Associate Professor of Mass
  Communication
• DeAnne Luck, Electronic Resources Librarian
• Lori Buchanan, User Education Librarian
• Austin Peay State University

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The Virtual University
Each university that links up with others to
create a virtual university will be stripped to
its essence. It will contribute only what it
regards as its core competencies.It will mix and
match what it does best with the best of other
universities
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Multimedia Literacy

• Students learn about the role of electronic
• media in acquiring, structuring, analyzing
• and synthesizing information via
• Information Literacy Readings/Discussions
• Group Website Design and Construction
• Individual Web Portfolio Project

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Selected Local Partnerships http//library.apsu.ed
u/library/3_5.htm
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ACRL Information Literacy Standards

• All Five Standards Are Addressed
• Need
• Access
• Evaluation
• Use
• Ethics/Legality

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Using Information Legally Ethically
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Readings Discussion Threads
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Accessing Information
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Evaluating Information
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Web-based Information Discussion

• compared to print, students found web-based
  information
• More Accessible
• More Understandable
• Quality comparable in some cases but

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Web-based Information Discussion

• they also stated that the Web held
• Too much information
• Accuracy was questionable
• Web-based library databases were better

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Instructor Feedback
about fee-based and free web information
sources Many free and fee web-based
information sources are available through your
university librarys website. Libraries are
shifting to providing access, because they can no
longer afford to own all the needed materials.
The APSU Library is adding new databases and
electronic books all the time in our efforts to
provide access...
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Discussion about Evaluation

• when evaluating sources, students considered
• Publisher or author
• Information updates
• Accuracy of information
• Confirm information elsewhere
• Consider purpose of the site
• Seal of approval from watchgroup
• Timely response to email query

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Annotations Assignment
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Selected Local Partnerships
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Presenting Multimedia in the Web Environment

• Students work in groups to create a web site
• Assignments focus on planning, not HTML
• Web usability principles (information seeking
  behaviors)
• Defining sites mission, audience, content
• Organization and navigation
• Creating content unique to the web

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Information Literacy Standards

• Covers standard four Use
• Performance indicator 1 applies new and prior
  information to the planning and creation of a
  particular product or performance.
• Performance indicator 3 communicates the
  product or performance effectively to others.
• Also touches on the other 4 standards

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Principles of web design, organization of
information, and accessibilityhttp//library.apsu
.edu/library/luckdl/multimedia.htm
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Student comments

• I like the others would have to agree with
  Nielsen's mistakes of web design- I don't think I
  would have listed all of them if you asked me to
  before I read the article but as I read I
  realized I was shaking my head in agreement with
  most of his mistakes and good deeds.

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Student comments

• One thing that sticks out to me when discussing
  web design mistakes is the lack of biographies. I
  like to know where my information is coming from
  so I can determine if it is reliable.

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Yale style manual site structurehttp//info.med
.yale.edu/caim/manual/
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Example student web site blueprint
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Developing content text and multimedia
presentations of information
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Conclusions

• Librarians and classroom faculty can each bring
  unique strengths to a class
• We need more experience to exploit the strengths
  and avoid the weaknesses of the online learning
  environment
• Formal reassignment of librarian duties is needed
  if we want to expand this level of involvement to
  other classes