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Letting Go: Giving Up Control to Improve First-year Information Literacy Courses. #lettinggo. Michele Ostrow, Meghan Sitar, & Cindy Fisher from the University of Texas Libraries ACRL 2011 . What is your core mission and who are your primary constituents?.
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Letting Go: Giving Up Control to Improve First-year Information Literacy Courses #lettinggo Michele Ostrow, Meghan Sitar, & Cindy Fisher from the University of Texas Libraries ACRL 2011
What is your core mission and who are your primary constituents? Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Signature Courses Rhetoric 306 Freshman Interest Groups Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Learning outcomes: 1. Create and execute a research strategy 2. Critically evaluate information 3. Use citations Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Is there an area of importance you don’t have the resources to support the way you would like? Are there things you can stop doing or do less of without impacting your core mission? Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Not enough staff, time, or resources Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Seeing the same students 2+ times Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Our Solution = More Staff! Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Our Reality = No Money Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Our Realistic Solution: Cut What Isn’t Core & Collaborate Letting Go – ACRL 2011
What are the fears or hesitations you have about changing your model? Letting Go – ACRL 2011
“the willingness of a party to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the expectation that the other will perform a particular action important to the trustor, irrespective of the ability to monitor or control that other party.” (712) Mayer, R. C., Davis, J. H., & Schoorman, F. D. (1995). An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust. Academy of Management Review, 20(3), 709-734. Letting Go – ACRL 2011
“The more extensive the use of formal controls, the slower the development of trust.” (591) Inkpen, A. C., & Currall, S. C. (2004). The Coevolution of Trust, Control, and Learning in Joint Ventures. Organization Science, 15(5), 586-599. Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Control mechanisms: Das, T. K., & Teng, B. (1998). Between Trust and Control: Developing Confidence in Partner Cooperation in Alliances. The Academy of Management Review, 23(3), 491-512. doi: 10.2307/259291 Letting Go – ACRL 2011
1) Goal setting Das, T. K., & Teng, B. (1998). Between Trust and Control: Developing Confidence in Partner Cooperation in Alliances. The Academy of Management Review, 23(3), 491-512. doi: 10.2307/259291 Letting Go – ACRL 2011
2) Structural specifications Das, T. K., & Teng, B. (1998). Between Trust and Control: Developing Confidence in Partner Cooperation in Alliances. The Academy of Management Review, 23(3), 491-512. doi: 10.2307/259291 Letting Go – ACRL 2011
3) Cultural blending Das, T. K., & Teng, B. (1998). Between Trust and Control: Developing Confidence in Partner Cooperation in Alliances. The Academy of Management Review, 23(3), 491-512. doi: 10.2307/259291 Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Who are the collaborators you would need to get buy-in from to make changes? Are there any barriers? What are some strategies you could use to overcome these barriers? Letting Go – ACRL 2011
3.5 # of Librarians for the 2010-2011 School Year 101 41 # of Classes Taught in Fall 2010 # of Classes Taught in Spring 2011 Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Too few staff to serve so many classes = Self Service Model Letting Go – ACRL 2011
http://lib.utexas.edu/signaturecourses Letting Go – ACRL 2011
http://lib.utexas.edu/signaturecourses Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Self-service breeds uncertainty. Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Assessment is difficult using traditional tools. Letting Go – ACRL 2011
They’ll still learn without us; heck, they’ll probably remember more! Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Next steps: - Toolkit redesign underway - Outreach to faculty by department Letting Go – ACRL 2011
RHE 306: Teach the Teacher Letting Go – ACRL 2011
RHE 306 Standard Syllabus: • Unit 1: Map a Controversy • Unit 2: In-depth Rhetorical Analysis • Unit 3: Make an argument/propose a solution Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Next steps: - Research Summary analysis underway - Pre/Post-tests comparing models analysis underway - Continue to tweak and develop content annually Letting Go – ACRL 2011
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/instruction/figmentors.htmlhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/instruction/figmentors.html Letting Go – ACRL 2011
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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/plagiarism Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Next steps: - Continued outreach to FIG Mentors - Update real-life examples in Plagiarism tutorial Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Signature Courses Rhetoric 306 Freshman Interest Groups Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Signature Course Faculty Toolkit lib.utexas.edu/signaturecourses Wiki for RHE 306 Graduate Student Instructors wiki.lib.utexas.edu/rhe398t Plagiarism Training for First-year Interest Group (FIG) Peer Mentors lib.utexas.edu/services/instruction/figmentors.html All About Plagiarism Tutorial lib.utexas.edu/plagiarism Letting Go – ACRL 2011
Questions? Contact us at lib-instruction@utlists.utexas.edu Image credits (all images Flickr users unless otherwise noted) Hand, courtesy Crossett Library Bennington College Question Mark, courtesy Leo Reynolds House, courtesy Crossett Library Bennington College Bullseye, Crossett Library Bennington College Insufficient Bandwidth, courtesy davidroessli Rerun, courtesy coda Now Hiring, courtesy quinnanna George Washington Scissors, courtesy Truthout.org Stop… Hammertime, courtesy Memestate Letting Go is Hard, courtesy ohdearbarb Control Freak, courtesy celinenadeu Trust, courtesy purplejavatroll Scale, courtesy captkodak Buffet, courtesy skidder Fork in the Road, courtesy alexbfree I don’t know, courtesy cowbite Pile of Papers, courtesy The Bees Classroom, courtesy wertheim Librarian, from The Viking yearbook, 1950 - Vanport Extension Center of the University of Oregon Steps, courtesy Stuart HerbertPlagiarism, courtesy Sam McNally, Threadless.com Letting Go – ACRL 2011
