Scaling Up Library Resources for Students: Course Views at NCSU LITA National Forum October 17, 2008 Kim Duckett and Jason Casden ______________________________________________
Background ______________________________________________
Our Environment Large institution = 30,000+ students Total courses = 6,000+ Former WebCT campus Current CMS environment is mixed –BlackBoard Vista –Moodle pilots –“WolfWare” locker system ______________________________________________
History of Course Resources “Course pages” by subject specialists –Hand tailored to assignments –Used with library instruction sessions –Assignment focused ______________________________________________
Problem: Limited Reach ______________________________________________
History of CMS Integration Request process in WebCT since 2004 –Links to subject specialists’ course pages –Faculty could select content –Web pages created off template –Links inserted by librarian ______________________________________________
A distillation of the most student-centric stuff the library offers. ______________________________________________ What is Course Views? Branded: Library Tools Launch date: August 2008
Goals ______________________________________________
Goals 1.A Course View for every course ______________________________________________
Goals 1.A Course View for every course 2.A scalable and sustainable system for library course content delivery ______________________________________________
Goals 1.A Course View for every course 2.A scalable and sustainable system for library course content delivery 3.Library content customized as much as possible to the course ______________________________________________
Collaboration Students Faculty Subject specialist librarians Campus partners ______________________________________________
Demo ______________________________________________
Technical Architecture ______________________________________________
Course Identifiers Customized content based on existing institutional course identifiers. NC State example: ENG 101 ‘ENG’ = curriculum code ‘101’ = course number ‘ENG 101’ = full course identifier
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Content Customization ______________________________________________
Cascading Selection ______________________________________________
Cascading Selection ______________________________________________
Cascading Selection ______________________________________________
Course level: ENG 101 Kawanna Cascading Selection ______________________________________________
English 101 ______________________________________________
Course level: ENG 333 Kim Cascading Selection ______________________________________________
English 333 ______________________________________________
Curriculum level: ENG Cindy Cascading Selection ______________________________________________
English (default) ______________________________________________
Integration ______________________________________________
Blackboard Vista
Moodle
WolfWare
QuickSearch
Library Homepage
Learning Commons Website
Usage ______________________________________________ Date range: 8/20/08 – 10/16/08
Project Information Project home: Library Tools: Additional team members: Tito Sierra, Joe Ryan
Questions? ______________________________________________
Contact Us Kim Duckett Principal Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning Jason Casden Digital Technologies Development Librarian ______________________________________________