Slideshows and/or recordings from previous workshops in the Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series are available below:
Voices Not Sources: Reframing How We Teach Searching for and Evaluating Sources (recorded October 24, 2024)
As part of research or inquiry-based assignments, students are often instructed to locate a certain number of sources. Often, they are often told to find specific types of sources, such as scholarly journal articles. However, such guidance may create the impression that sources are objective and can be viewed without consideration of the perspective of the creator. In this workshop, participants will consider what it would mean if we encourage students to seek differing voices, not sources. How could this change the way students search for sources? How could this change how students evaluate sources? Participants should leave with ideas for how they can help students to consider the value of incorporating multiple perspectives as part of the research process.
To access slides: https://go.osu.edu/voicesnotsources
To access recording: https://go.osu.edu/voicesnotsourcesrecording
Why Do We Cite? Helping Students Understand the Value of Citations (recorded October 17, 2024)
While many students are familiar with the expectation that they must cite their sources, do they really understand why instructors consider citations to be so important? If not, how can we help them to shift their thinking about the role citations play in the research process. This free virtual workshop will explore the ways in which instructor and student understanding about why we cite may differ and what this means for our efforts to teach students to cite. Participants will leave with strategies and resources they can incorporate into their teaching context to helps students better answer the question: Why do I need to cite?
To access slides: https://go.osu.edu/whydowecite
To access recording: https://go.osu.edu/whyweciterecording
I Don’t Know What That Means: Helping Students Understand the Language of Research (recorded October 10, 2024)
What is a scholarly source? What is peer review? What is a literature review? In many ways, learning to be an effective information researcher requires students to learn another language. There are many terms that instructors regularly incorporate into their instructions for research or inquiry-based assignments that may be unfamiliar to students. In addition, the meaning of some terms can vary across disciplines. Or, there may be terms that have an “everyday” meaning and a different meaning within the context of research. This free virtual workshop will focus on highlighting key academic jargon related to the research process. Participants will also learn about strategies and resources that will help to clarifying key terms and concepts for students.
To access slides: https://go.osu.edu/understandinglanguage
To access recording: https://go.osu.edu/languagerecording24
Academic Research and the Expert-Novice Gap: Helping Students Understand the Purpose of Research (recorded October 3, 2024)
Experienced researchers tend to think about research as an ongoing and iterative process in which individual researchers contribute their findings to an ongoing conversation within or across disciplines. However, as novice researchers, students may have a very different understanding of the purpose of research. The lack of a shared understanding of the goals and process of research may contribute to the frustration that students and instructors often have related to student performance on research or inquiry-based assignments. This free virtual workshop will explore the expert-novice gap in relation to the purpose and process of academic research. Participants will learn strategies and activities that they can use to help students develop their understanding of the purpose and process of research.
To access slides: https://go.osu.edu/expertnovicegap
To access recordings: https://go.osu.edu/expertnovice24recording
Identifying Outdated Research Notions (recorded September 26, 2024)
Students, and sometimes even instructors, may have a wide range of misconceptions or outdated notions when it comes to information searching and research assignments. In this workshop, participants will learn about some common, but outdated, understandings about how to find, evaluate and use information as part of the research process. Participants will also collaborate to update these notions to provide more effective guidance to students. (Note: This workshop was previously offered in Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024)
To access slides: https://go.osu.edu/outdatedau24
To access recording: https://go.osu.edu/outdatedsep24recording
Do As I Say: Authenticity and the Research Process (recorded September 19, 2024)
When starting a research project, do you always develop a list of keywords and synonyms before you search? Have you ever cited a source without reading the entire article? Do you always spend a significant amount of time evaluating each source you find? When instructors and librarians teach students how to conduct research, we often outline specific steps that students should take and provide guidelines they should follow. But, do we always follow these steps or guidelines ourselves? If we don’t, why not? And what does that mean for the way we teach research? This presentation will explore the idea of authenticity in relation to how we teach the research process. Participants will be encouraged to think about how we can approach teaching the research process as it often is, rather than what we think it should look like.
This presentation is based on “Never have I ever used Google Scholar”: hypocrisy and authenticity in library and academic skills teaching” presented by Rachel Davies and Joe Larkin at LILAC 2024.
To access slides: https://go.osu.edu/doasisay
To access recording: https://go.osu.edu/doasisay24recording
Teaching Information Literacy: Foundational Concepts and Teaching Strategies (recorded September 11, 2024)
What exactly do we mean when we talk about information literacy? Why is it important that our students are developing their information literacy? This virtual workshop will provide an overview of information literacy as a concept and a practice in higher education and explore why information literacy is crucial to student success. Participants will also learn about resources and strategies that they can use to incorporate information literacy into their courses. This workshop is aimed at course instructors, graduate teaching associates, and librarians.
To access slides: https://go.osu.edu/ilfoundationsau24
To access recording: https://go.osu.edu/ilfoundations24recording
Teaching AI Literacy: Engaging with AI Tools (recorded September 5, 2024)
In this interactive virtual workshop, participants will have the opportunity to experiment with using several different AI tools. Participants will also learn strategies for effective prompting. Attendees should leave with ideas for how they may be able to incorporate AI tools into their teaching, research, and/or work practices.
To access slides: https://go.osu.edu/aitools24
To access recording: https://go.osu.edu/aitools24recording
Teaching Artificial Intelligence Literacy (recorded August 29, 2024)
Teaching students how to effectively and ethically engage with AI tools is a key concern for many educators. This free virtual workshop will explore the concept of AI literacy. What are some of the core competencies and habits associated with AI literacy? How is AI literacy related to information literacy? What are some strategies and activities that instructors can use to help students develop their AI literacy? Participants should leave with a better understanding of the concept of AI literacy and ideas for how they can incorporate a focus on AI literacy into their teaching practices.
To access slides: https://go.osu.edu/ailiteracy24
To access recording: https://go.osu.edu/ailiteracy24recording
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Social Media, Research, and Information Literacy (recorded March 7, 2024)
How can we teach students to evaluate information encountered through social media? Can social media be incorporated into research and information seeking processes effectively? One of the key information formats our students engage with is social media. Students may also use social media as a search tool. And yet, information literacy instruction often focuses on more traditional forms of information, such as scholarly articles or books. This workshop will explore the concept of social media information literacy (Heiss et al., 2023; Murawski et al., 2019) and consider the role of educators in helping students to navigate social media. Participants should leave with resources and ideas for supporting students to develop social media information literacy.
To access slides: Social Media and Information Literacy
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Identifying Outdated Research Notions (February 29, 2024)
Students, and sometimes even instructors, may have a wide range of misconceptions or outdated notions when it comes information searching and research assignments. In this workshop, participants will learn about some common, but outdated, understandings about how to find, evaluate and use information as part of the research process. Participants will also collaborate to update these notions to provide more effective guidance to students.
To access slides: Outdated Notions
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Decoding Information Literacy (February 22, 2024)
Do your students struggle with research or inquiry-based assignments where they are required to locate, evaluate and use a variety of different information sources? Some of these challenges may be due to the gap between how experienced researchers approach research and how novice learners approach research. In this workshop you will be introduced to Decoding the Disciplines (Pace & Middendorf), a model for reducing the gap between expert and novice thinking. You will learn about how you can use this model to help identify student learning bottlenecks related to information literacy—finding, evaluating and using information—and will be provided with strategies and activities you can use to help students overcome these bottlenecks.
To access slides: Decoding Information Literacy
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Beyond Anxiety: Exploring Emotional Bottlenecks in the Research Process (February 15, 2024)
Students encounter a spectrum of emotions on their research journeys, providing both meaning and motivation to their work. In this workshop, participants will gain insights into the impact of emotional bottlenecks on the research process and explore effective strategies aimed at nurturing and enhancing students’ emotional investment in their research pursuits.
To access slides: Beyond Anxiety
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Prior Knowledge, Research and Information Literacy (recorded February 8, 2024)
Students come into our classes with prior understandings about what it means to do research or how to perform tasks such as locating and evaluating information sources. While this prior knowledge can sometimes be useful, when it is inaccurate or inappropriate, prior knowledge can also cause students to struggle with research or inquiry-based assignments. This workshop will explore the relationship between prior knowledge, research, and information literacy. The presenter will share practical ideas for how to identify, activate, and, when needed, correct students’ prior knowledge in order to support improved performance on research assignments.
To access slides: Prior Knowledge and Information Literacy
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Information Literacy: Foundational Concepts and Teaching Strategies (February 1, 2024)
What exactly do we mean when we talk about information literacy? Why is it important that our students are developing their information literacy? This workshop will provide an overview of information literacy as a concept and a practice in higher education and explore why information literacy is crucial to student success. Participants will also learn about resources and strategies that they can use to incorporate information literacy into their courses
To access slides: Information Literacy Foundational Concepts
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Artificial Intelligence, Teaching, and Information Literacy: Concerns and Opportunities (recorded January 25, 2024)
The rise of generative artificial intelligence continues to generate both excitement and concern among educators. This workshop will explore some of the key concerns and opportunities related to teaching and artificial intelligence, including how artificial intelligence may impact how we think about and teach information literacy concepts and skills. Participants will leave with resources they can use to continue exploring how to incorporate artificial intelligence into their teaching and learning practices.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Researching in the Disciplines: Identifying Information Authorities (recorded October 19, 2023)
While there are aspects of the research process that are the same across disciplines or fields, disciplines can also have their own expectations and conventions related to research. These can include expectations for the specific search tools and types of sources that are considered authoritative or appropriate. This workshop will focus on helping you identify the expectations for locating and selecting sources in your discipline or field and develop activities and assignments that can help students learn this crucial knowledge.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Identifying Research Threshold Concepts (recorded September 21, 2023)
What are the things that experienced researchers understand about research and information use that students may not know? What are the things that they do, as part of a research process, that more novice researchers may not be doing? This workshop is intended to help participants identify key ways of thinking and knowing that are often shared among experienced researchers that influence expectations for student performance on research assignments. Participants will also learn strategies for clarifying their expectations for research assignments for all students.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Identifying Outdated Research Notions (recorded September 14, 2023)
Students, and sometimes instructors, may have a wide range of misconceptions or outdated notions when it comes to information searching and research assignments. In this workshop, participants will learn about common, but outdated, understandings about how to find, evaluate and use information as part of the research process.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Help! My Students Can’t Research (recorded September 7, 2023)
Do you have a research or inquiry-based assignment in your course that students find challenging? Maybe they are not including the “right” kind of sources? Maybe they aren’t analyzing and synthesizing their sources effectively? What are the reasons for these types of research challenges? In this workshop, participants will learn more about the reasons that students may find research assignments difficult. Participants will also learn about strategies and resources for supporting students’ ability to develop the skills, knowledge and dispositions needed to become stronger researchers.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Teaching with AI: Concerns and Opportunities (recorded August 31, 2023)
The rapid growth of AI tools has created both excitement and anxiety among educators. In this workshop, facilitated by Michael Flierl, Student Success Librarian, and Jane Hammons, Teaching & Learning Engagement Librarian, participants discuss AI-related concerns. You will also learn about opportunities and strategies for using AI to support student learning. In addition, facilitators will share resources to help you make decisions about using AI in the classroom.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Inclusive Citation Practices (recorded February 22, 2023)
What are inclusive citation practices? Inclusive citation has been described as “an approach to citing the intellectual and creative work of individuals and groups with a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Inclusive citation works to counteract dominant power structures that have historically privileged certain groups while disadvantaging others” (Rowan University). This workshop will explore the concept of inclusive citation and why it matters. Participants will leave with resources and activities that they can share with their students in support of inclusive citation practices.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Wicked Information Literacy (recorded November 3, 2022)
What does it mean for your students to be “wicked?” In Creating Wicked Students, Paul Hanstedt describes “wicked” students as those who have a sense of authority and believe that they are capable of addressing messy and evolving problems which have no clear solutions. This workshop will consider how we can teach information literacy to our students to support them in becoming “wicked” graduates who are capable of navigating our complex information landscape. Inspired by Hanstedt’s book on the subject, presenters will share wicked ideas on writing course goals, designing assignments and constructing class activities that challenge students to learn and apply information literacy.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Teaching Research as Inquiry (recorded October 6, 2022)
The idea of research as a process of inquiry is one of the core information literacy concepts in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. But what does it mean to describe research as inquiry, and why is this concept important for students to understand? This workshop, part of the University Libraries Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series, will provide an overview of the Research as Inquiry concept, explore student learning bottlenecks related to the concept and provide strategies and resources that instructors can use to help their students develop an understanding of the concept.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Teaching Scholarship as Conversation (recorded September 29, 2022)
Scholarship as Conversation is one of the core information literacy concepts in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. But what does it mean to describe scholarship as a conversation, and why is this concept important for students to understand? This workshop will provide an overview of the Scholarship as Conversation concept, explore student learning bottlenecks related to the concept and provide strategies and resources that instructors can use to help their students develop an understanding of the concept.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Evaluating Information: Teaching the Lateral Reading Strategy (recorded September 22, 2022)
Evaluating information sources for credibility and relevance is one of the most challenging tasks for many students. The lateral reading strategy is an evidence-based method for evaluating sources, especially websites, that can help students more effectively identify trustworthy information. In this workshop participants will learn more about the lateral reading strategy and will be provided with strategies and resources that they can use to teach students the lateral reading method.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Intersections of Information Literacy and Citizenship (recorded June 23, 2022)
Information literacy has been described as crucial to effective citizenship, but how is information literacy connected to citizenship? What is our role, as educators and librarians, in creating informed and engaged citizens? In this workshop, participants will explore the intersections of citizenship and information literacy.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Information Literacy in the Disciplinary Context (recorded June 16, 2022)
How do students learn to locate and identify discipline-appropriate information sources? How do they learn to incorporate and share information in ways that are appropriate for the discipline? In this workshop, participants will be encouraged to consider what information literacy means within their discipline, and will learn about resources that they can use to help students effectively engage with information in the disciplinary context.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Teaching Responsible and Ethical Information Practices (recorded June 9, 2022)
What are responsible and ethical information practices? How can we teach students to become responsible and ethical information consumers and information creators? In this workshop, participants will consider the actions and habits that constitute responsible and ethical information access, sharing, and use. Participants will learn about strategies and resources that they can incorporate into their teaching practices to help students develop responsible and ethical information practices.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Teaching Reflective and Critical Evaluation Strategies (recorded June 2, 2022)
What constitutes “reflective and critical” evaluation strategies? How can we help students to develop these strategies? In this workshop, participants will learn about activities and resources that can be used to help students learn to think critically about information sources.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Teaching Context-Appropriate Search Strategies (recorded May 26, 2022)
With so many search tools and resources available, determining the most effective strategy to locate needed information can be a challenge. Students must be able to consider the context in which they will be using information to select the most appropriate way to search. In this workshop, participants will learn about teaching strategies and resources that can be used to help students locate relevant information using context-appropriate search strategies.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Information Literacy: Foundational Concepts and Teaching Strategies (recorded May 19, 2022).
This workshop, part of the University Libraries’ Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series, will provide an overview of information literacy as a concept and a practice in higher education. Participants will learn about resources and strategies that they can use to incorporate information literacy into their courses.
Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series: Technology, Pedagogy and Information Literacy (recorded October 21, 2021)
In this presentation, part of the University Libraries Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series, you will learn more about the TPACK framework, which helps lead the use of technology in a course. You will also be shown how to utilize the framework to incorporate a small selection of e-learning tools to help students engage with information literacy. You will leave the workshop with new ideas for how you can strategically incorporate technology in your course while enhancing your students’ knowledge of information literacy.
In this workshop, part of the University Libraries Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series, you will have a chance to explore the connections between information literacy and social justice. You will leave with ideas for activities that you can use to help students approach information with a critical, justice-oriented mindset.
In this workshop, part of the University Libraries Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series, you will be introduced to open pedagogy, which centers students as knowledge creators by employing social and participatory technologies for interaction, peer-learning, knowledge creation and sharing. You will learn strategies and resources that will help you connect open pedagogical practices with your goals for teaching information literacy.
In this workshop, part of the University Libraries Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series, you will be introduced to the “small teaching” approach developed by James Lang in “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning.” We will explore how this could apply to the teaching of information literacy. You will leave the workshop with sample activities that require minimal prep and grading, but that can help students to engage with information literacy skills and concepts.
In this workshop, part of the University Libraries Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series, you will learn about the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) framework developed by Mary-Ann Winkelmes. You will learn about how you can apply this model to the design of your own research or inquiry-based assignments.
In this workshop, part of the University Libraries Information Literacy Virtual Workshop Series, you will be introduced to Decoding the Disciplines (Pace & Middendorf), a model for reducing the gap between expert and novice thinking. You will learn about how you can use this model to help identify student learning bottlenecks related to information literacy—finding, evaluating and using information—and will be provided with strategies and activities you can use to help students overcome these bottlenecks
This workshop highlights student learning bottlenecks that are related to the concept “Searching as Strategic Exploration” and provides practical strategies for helping students helping students expand the range of search tools and search strategies that they can use.
This workshop highlights student learning bottlenecks that are related to the concept “Information Creation as a Process” and provides practical strategies for helping students helping students consider the information format and creation process as part of learning how to evaluate and use information sources.
This workshop highlights student learning bottlenecks that are related to the concept “Authority is Constructed and Contextual” and provides practical strategies for helping students helping students identify the authority of different information sources and determine when it is appropriate to use them.
This workshop highlights student learning bottlenecks that are related to the concept “Information Has Value” and provides practical strategies for helping students helping students make sense of the legal and ethical responsibilities related to information creation, access and sharing.
This workshop highlights student learning bottlenecks that are related to the concept “Research as Inquiry” and provides practical strategies for helping students enhance their understanding of the academic research process.
This workshop highlights student learning bottlenecks that are related to the concept “Scholarship as Conversation” and provides practical strategies for helping students to more effectively engage with scholarly conversations.
If you are interested in participant materials from any of these workshops, contact Jane Hammons (hammons.73@osu.edu).