Start Date
20-3-2016 1:00 PM
End Date
20-3-2016 5:00 PM
Description
Community Based Learning courses are on the rise at American University. Under the Guidance of the Center for Community Engagement and Service (CCES), faculty build courses that focus students’ attention on the intersection of community involvement, academic study, and practical experience. Just as these programs are beginning to mature, the Faculty Senate Committee on Learning Assessment (COLA) has begun promoting AU’s new institutional learning outcomes, including information literacy. This presentation will explore the role librarians played in including information literacy as an institutional learning outcome and ways they have reached out to service and community based learning groups on campus. Finally, it will evaluate COLA’s work mapping institutional learning outcomes to the curriculum in an attempt to learn how well the connection between service learning and information literacy has been established.
Short bio of the presenter(s)
Olivia Ivey is a member of the Reference, Teaching, and Learning department at American University Library. As the Public Affairs librarian, she collaborates with teaching faculty in the School of Public Affairs to integrate information literacy content into individual courses and curriculum. She also serves on the Faculty Senate Committee on Learning Assessment.
On the Road to Information Literacy: Mapping IL Learning Outcomes to Service Learning Courses
Community Based Learning courses are on the rise at American University. Under the Guidance of the Center for Community Engagement and Service (CCES), faculty build courses that focus students’ attention on the intersection of community involvement, academic study, and practical experience. Just as these programs are beginning to mature, the Faculty Senate Committee on Learning Assessment (COLA) has begun promoting AU’s new institutional learning outcomes, including information literacy. This presentation will explore the role librarians played in including information literacy as an institutional learning outcome and ways they have reached out to service and community based learning groups on campus. Finally, it will evaluate COLA’s work mapping institutional learning outcomes to the curriculum in an attempt to learn how well the connection between service learning and information literacy has been established.
