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Enhancing Student Research: The ICAP Project for Interactive Course Assignment Pages

The ICAP Project, initiated by OSU Libraries, aims to connect students with essential library resources for course assignments through Interactive Course Assignment Pages (ICAPs). This initiative enables librarians to swiftly create and manage dynamic web pages that integrate traditional library content with Web 2.0 features, such as chat and RSS feeds. The ICAP Tool, developed using Ruby on Rails and MySQL, simplifies the process for librarians, fostering collaboration with faculty and enhancing student learning experiences. Join us in transforming the way academic resources are delivered!

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Enhancing Student Research: The ICAP Project for Interactive Course Assignment Pages

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  1. The OSU Libraries ICAP Project Creating Interactive Course Assignment Pages Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2007 Task Force Meeting Kim Griggs, Jane Nichols, Margaret Mellinger

  2. ICAP Starting Points • Needs: • provide clear path to resources that help students complete their assignments • enable librarians to quickly create and manage course web pages • Solution: • Interactive Course Assignment Pages (ICAPs) • ICAP Tool

  3. ICAP Project Goals • Connect students with quality library information when and where they need it for course assignments. • Enable librarians to combine traditional library resources with Web 2.0 features in easily created and maintained web pages. • Collaborate with faculty to contribute to and promote use of librarian created web pages.

  4. ICAP Project Strategies • Determine approach: how should we deliver content • Get people with the right skill sets • Use an agile development cycle

  5. ICAPs: Connecting Students to Libraries Single access point to relevant library resources at a course or assignment level. ICAPs are dynamic web pages that integrate Web 2.0 features, chat and RSS feeds, etc. with traditional library content, such as catalogs and article databases.

  6. ICAP Publishing System: For and By Librarians Librarians have enough to do and maintaining static HTML pages is tedious and time consuming. OSU Libraries developed the ICAP Tool, which enables librarians to easily create, manage and publish ICAPs through a web browser. The ICAP tool was developed using: • Ruby on Rails, MySQL, AJAX • (X)HTML, CSS • ICAPs are ADA and W3C Compliant

  7. ICAP Screencast • http://screencast.com/t/mSsmLVeFd

  8. ICAP Project Assessment Reached our goal when we have: • Converted Librarians • Happy Students • Faculty Buy-in

  9. Lessons Learned • People need time to adopt new software. • Incorporating usability testing and training throughout the development facilitated communication and feedback. • Built capacity, both for the team and the librarians who use the new tool. • Learned about/how to employ software development practices in the library setting. • Energy and excitement about a project is critical to its success.

  10. Open Source Release available for download:http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/about/index.html

  11. Thank YouQuestions? Contact Us For More Information: • {margaret.mellinger, jane.nichols, kim.griggs} at oregonstate.edu • ICAP Project Website: http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/about/index.html

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