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Category Archives: instruction and student learning
Asking for help from ChatGPT
I’ve been exploring prompt engineering this week in my efforts to learn more about the uses of AI – for personal interests and professional work. It connects to our thinking about the use of AI tools for instruction and by … Continue reading
Posted in instruction and student learning, research work practice
Tagged ai, reflection
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Ramping Up Library Tutorials
Temple Libraries has a long history of providing high quality information literacy instruction for courses at Temple. As we continue to learn more and adapt our teaching methods, our Learning and Student Success unit recognized a need to grow our … Continue reading
LibGuide Assessment from the Ground Up
Librarian Rick Lezenby authors many Libguides. In this guest post, Rick shares some insights about assessment and the value of listening to users as we collaborate on tools that support their instruction. Libguides at Temple Libraries are guides to library … Continue reading
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Discovering sources in Library Search: key takeaways from remote user interviews with history students
As a followup to last year’s Browse Prototyping project, Rebecca Lloyd and I conducted remote user interviews with upper level history students in December 2020, just as the fall semester was wrapping up. Using a semi-structured interview technique, we talked … Continue reading
Posted in instruction and student learning, qualitative research, technology use, uncategorized, usability, user experience
Tagged discovery, undergraduate, user experience, user studies
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“why can’t life just be easy !?”
One of our strongest educational partnerships here at Temple Libraries is our collaboration with the First Year Writing Program. Nearly all entering first-year students at Temple take at least one of the courses in this program, so it’s a great … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment of learning, instruction
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Assessment Community of Practice Focus: Faculty Survey on Undergraduate Instruction
Last week’s Assessment Community of Practice meeting focused on findings from the Ithaka S+R faculty survey, particularly those related to Undergraduate Instruction. Twelve librarians participated and we were lucky to be joined research project team members (Rebecca Lloyd, Annie Johnson, … Continue reading
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Tagged faculty, instruction, survey, undergraduate
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When Numbers Fail Us
The recent election demonstrated in a powerful way the limits of data, in this case a multitude of polling numbers, towards understanding, or planning, for our future. As an assessment librarian who counts on numbers to tell a story, I … Continue reading
Posted in conference reports, instruction and student learning
Tagged conferences, instruction, metrics
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Finding the Sweet Spot for Library Instruction
This month’s issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship features the research findings of Barbara Junisbai, M. Sara Lowe and our own Natalie Tagge, Education Services Librarian at the Ginsburg Health Sciences Library. Natalie and I talked about her compelling … Continue reading
“I Am the Content”: How and Why Instructors Discover and Share Course Readings
This post re-visits a project I blogged about several months ago. I interviewed Jenifer Baldwin (Head of Reference and Instruction Services) Anne Harlow (Librarian for Music, Dance, and Theatre) and Rick Lezenby (Librarian for Psychology and Political Sciences). They were … Continue reading
Assessment in the Real World
This post was made possible by the excellent notes and input from Laura Chance, temporary art librarian at Paley. Thanks, Laura! Last Friday 12 librarians gathered to talk about feedback received from students participating in the Analytical Reading and Writing … Continue reading
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