1	Information Literacy Required The Dixie State College Program Martha Talman, Instruction Librarian William Baer, Library Director David Zielke, Librarian Steven Decker, Adjunct Librarian Utah Library Association Conference St. George, Utah May 2006
2	Be Careful What You Wish For January 2005: GE Committee formed March 2005: Informal discussion of stand-alone information literacy course with GE Committee April 2005: LIB 1010 is approved May 2005: Enrollment begins August 2005: Adjunct instructors hired and training begins. Course incomplete. August 2005: Fall Semester starts. Enrollment – 1,600 students December 2005: Course complete. Course revision begins. January 2006: Spring Semester starts. Enrollment – 1,000 students February 2006: First proctored exam May 2006: Second semester ends
3	Realities DSC has 3 professional librarians, a library director, and a systems librarian No time or manpower for committee Duties assigned to instruction librarian for creating and administering LIB 1010 Still some face-to-face instruction duties, but greatly reduced Other librarians had to pick up reference and collection development duties
4	Dixie Spirit Did not want to decrease GE requirements and then increase them again Therefore, course had to be functioning in Fall 2005 Can do attitude, but lack of development and testing period means less-than perfect Maintain goal of increasing students’ IL Many extra hours of work All library staff involved, not just instructors
5	What We Developed: LIB 1010 Online, competency-based course house in WebCT Vista Graded pass-fail Good and Bad Required for graduation (GE) LIB 1010 is pre- / co-requisite for ENGL 1010 and ENGL 2010 Students must take LIB 1010 before or concurrent with either required English course Unique course materials self-developed Based on current successful courses, best practices for online education, and ACRL standards 12 modules; 12 quizzes; 1 final exam
6	So, What’s In LIB 1010? Syllabus Testing & Grading in WebCT Tutorial Module 1: Introduction to LIB 1010 / What is Information Literacy? Module 2: Defining the Research Topic / Types of Information Resources Module 3: Electronic Databases & Searching Techniques
7	LIB 1010 Continued Module 4: Library Catalogs: Books & E-books Module 5: Article Databases Part I: Pioneer and EBSCOhost Module 6: Article Databases Part II: General and Specific Module 7: The Internet Module 8: The Visible & Invisible Webs, including Search Engines
8	LIB 1010 Contents Module 9: Citations & Bibliographies Module 10: Integrating Source Material & Avoiding Plagiarism Module 11: Selecting an Information Resource / Evaluating Information Module 12: Ethical, Legal, and Socio-Political Implications of Information Course Evaluation
9	Good Things Sections with instructors Goals of student learning and rigor Student evaluations positive Skills and concepts apply directly to college courses Increased use of resources Change in nature and number of questions at Reference Desk Transparency of process and open faculty section has encouraged other instructors to include online elements in their courses and made LIB 1010 content easily accessible
10	Mistakes (we’ve made a few) Overestimating ethics of students Underestimating number of students Not considering administrative duties Large class sizes Lack of proctored exam Absence of non-text formats Course developed on-the-fly Means learning-as-we-go, even when implementing best practices Not enough time for preview, review, revision Mistakes sometimes not found until multiple corrections needed
11	Sins & Omissions Deadlines need stricter enforcement What about special cases? Concurrent enrollment Truly distant students Disabled students Under- and over-estimating student motivation to finish early Students don’t use WebCT or other online communication tools with instructors Complexity of WebCT format for students and instructors
12	Quick Change Artists Hey, we can learn too! In Spring 2006: Add testing & grading tutorial Limit quiz attempts Institute proctored exam (3 attempts at different exams) Limited facilities (25 seats) Quickly purchased online appointment system Major addition to staff workload in library Add instructor bios and pictures Stricter deadline enforcement and penalties for tardiness First quiz 25 questions (one week) Make up quiz 35 questions (two weeks) Then must do written assignment and take make up (2 weeks) Penalty assignments must be hand-graded
13	Surprise! We’re open access! Students must be prodded, pleaded with, and persuaded to do the work Students are incredibly difficult to contact, and often the campus registration system doesn’t have current contact information Students do not read WebCT communications in announcements, mail, or discussions Students often cheat and there are varying levels of cheating: Not reading modules, just looking up answers Working together to complete quizzes Copying from others’ completed quizzes Having others do the quizzes Students are often hindered by low reading comprehension, poor study habits, terrible time management, and a lack of test-taking skills
14	How’s it going? Assessment of student learning goes beyond success on quizzes and proctored exams But exams are reviewed carefully to determine which topics and/or questions might be problematic More work on search techniques Changes and/or additions were made to several modules after Fall 2005 Review of ENGL 2010 Annotated Bibliographies provides external measure More work on citations
15	Upcoming Changes Summer / Fall 2006 Lower section enrollment to 50 students Add audio versions of module texts Add more visual elements to module text Add expanded outlines Add 3 mandatory online exercises Building a search statement Bibliographic citations In-text citations Limit final exam attempts to 2 (start summer) Mandate instructor contact after first failure on final exam for review (start summer) Question sets for exams (and then quizzes)
16	Continuing Issues Workload / resources Instruction librarian Other librarians / instructors Library staff Balancing student learning & rigor with realities of open-access college in the midst of great change Adapting to changing information environment Resources disappear Teoma RefWorks Resources change EBSCOhost search interfaces Firstgov search results
17	"Let’s take a tour of..." Let’s take a tour of LIB 1010 in WebCT Questions?
18	For More Information This presentation will be available at the DSC Library web site (http://library.dixie.edu) New @ Your Library Contact: Martha Talman Instruction Librarian Val A. Browning Library Dixie State College of Utah St. George UT 84770 435.652.7722 talman@dixie.edu