Editors
B.K. West, K. D. Hoffman, M. Costello (Eds.)
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
2017
Publication Title
Creative Instructional Design: Practical Applications for Librarians
First page number:
291
Last page number:
311
Abstract
In light of a campus-wide curricular change at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), the University Libraries created Faculty Institutes to build capacity for effective teaching and assessment practices campus-wide. The UNLV Libraries Faculty Institutes are multi-day workshops designed and delivered by librarians to help teaching faculty create courses and assignments that are research-rich and closely aligned with the newly launched General Education learning outcomes. This chapter provides the situational factors leading to the overhaul of General Education at UNLV and how librarians leveraged this opportunity to maximize their role as experts in information literacy and instructional design. This chapter also describes how librarians used instructional design principles for creating significant learning experiences1 and transparent assignment design2 to guide the development and delivery of the Faculty Institutes. Finally, we draw on our experiences to suggest that the interdisciplinarity and specialized skills of librarians make us particularly poised to be leaders of curricular transformation at our institutions.
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Information Literacy
Language
English
Creative Commons License
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Repository Citation
Bowles-Terry, M.,
Watts, J. C.,
Hawthorne, P.,
Iannuzzi, P.
(2017).
Collaborating with Teaching Faculty on Transparent Assignment Design. In B.K. West, K. D. Hoffman, M. Costello (Eds.),
Creative Instructional Design: Practical Applications for Librarians
291-311.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/lib_articles/530