Charting Your Course: Using Curriculum Mapping to Enhance Information Literacy

Charting Your Course:Using Curriculum Mapping to Enhance Information Literacy

Susan [Gardner] ArchambaultLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY

DEVELOP procedure for reviewing & deconstructing curriculum

IDENTIFY “high impact” courses within each Dept. for embedding info lit

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LMU Curriculum Mapping Project

Why Curriculum Mapping?

Get to know curriculumfor each major orprogram of study

What’s the place ofinformation literacy in the curriculum as a whole?

Where is it most strategic to embed info literacy so more students benefit?

Work with faculty to avoid duplication and gaps in information literacy instruction

• Fill out a map for each Major/program of study

• List required “core” courses as well as “electives”

• Obtain copies of course syllabi for content analysis

• Identify learning outcomes and assignments related to LMU core info lit dimensions and map to course

• Meet with Chair/Department to discuss findings

Methodology

LMU’s Information Literacy “Big Picture”

In Search Of… Content Analysis

LMU CORE INFO LIT DIMENSIONS

Identify info need via research/hypothesis

Find info beyond assigned readings

Evaluate sources

Use evidence by integrating outside sources

Info ethics via proper citations

Excerpt from Mapping Instructions

Sample Curriculum Map

Dissection of CMST 204

Let’s Discuss:Where does your department build on foundational information literacy skills?

FIRST YEAR SEMINAR

RHETORICAL ARTS

CMST 204

Example: Reinforcing & Building On

• 46 upper-level courses embedded info lit into learning outcomes

• New opportunities for faculty-librarian collaboration

• More sequential info lit across the curriculum

Outcomes (So Far…)

• ACRL-IS Management and Leadership Committee. (2010). Analyzing your instructional environment: A workbook. Retrieved from  http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/is/iswebsite/projpubs/aie/aie.pdf

• Boss, K. & Drabinski, E. (2013). Looking for infoLit: Using syllabi to map strategic information literacy instruction. 7th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference, July 15-18, 2013, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Retrieved from http://eblip7.library.usask.ca/docs/Boss_Drabinski_EBLIP7_presentation

• Maki, P. (2010). Assessing for learning: Building a sustainable commitment across the institution. 2nd edition. Sterling, VA : Stylus Publishing.

• LMU Library. (2014). Curriculum mapping at LMU. Retrieved from http://libguides.lmu.edu/mapping2

Reader’s Advisory

• Moser, M., Heisel, A., Jacob, N., & McNeill, K. (2011). A more perfect union: Campus collaborations for curriculum mapping information literacy outcomes. ACRL 2011: A Declaration of Interdependence, March 30 – April 2, 2011, Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/national/2011/papers/more_perfect_union.pdf

• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment. (2012).  Curriculum mapping tool kit. Retrieved from http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/Mapping.htm

• UNLV Libraries. (2011). UNLV Libraries instructional framework working group report. Retrieved from http://www.library.unlv.edu/about/instruction_framework

Reader’s Advisory

Thank You:William H. Hannon Library Research Incentive Travel Grant

Susan Gardner Archambault [email protected]@susanarcham