Library partnerships for faculty support.

The Center for Educational Resources is co-sponsored by the Libraries, ITS, Engineering, and Arts & Sciences. Its mission is to partner with faculty to extend their instructional impact by connecting innovative teaching strategies and instructional technologies. Our website describes in detail extensive projects that assist faculty and graduate students to focus their teaching on adapting to new learning pedagogies, capitalizing on digital resources, targeting optimum learning moments, and expanding in new directions. The Libraries play a role in curriculum and skills development.
http://www.cer.jhu.edu

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Assessment:

In our Center for Educational Resources we do not assess information literacy per se. We constantly assess learning outcomes and effectiveness of teaching development.

Librarian supports undergraduate journal staff.

The Science and Engineering Liaison serves as an advisor to undergraduate research journals. Following an instruction session for editors and writers for Triple Helix on choosing scholarly reference sources and writing with more style, she was asked for similar assistance from the editors of Epidemic Proportions. She continues to provide instruction sessions and to copy-edit the articles. She also created a web page with links to style guides and other resources.

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Assessment:

We have not conducted a formal assessment, but consider the librarian's involvement a success as she is sought out by the members of these groups.

Tutorials for faculty and graduate students.

We have developed tutorials and instructional resource materials to assist faculty and graduate students in developing WebCT course sites and in readying graduate students for pedagogical assignments.
- select WebCT Training and TA Training.

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Library tab in University Portal serves undergraduates. (Sheridan Library) The library link from the University Portal includes RefWorks integration, Library account integration, electronic reserves integration, and a list of helpful links. The portal itself currently is targeted to undergraduate students. University IT is working with content providers to expand for other segments of the community. On the library tab we provide links to specific info for undergrads, grads, and faculty as well as the more general services described above.

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Library support for faculty in instruction and scholarly communication work.

Our Center for Educational Resources (CER) assists faculty with the development of course management system course sites and integration of library resources within those sites. It is jointly sponsored by the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the Sheridan Libraries, and Hopkins Information Technology Services. The Center's mission aligns with the evolving role of university libraries as they advance from print-based repositories to electronic collaboratories that enable application of digital collections and networked services to new approaches in instructional and scholarly communication. We also have liaison librarians editing content in class spaces and embedding library research modules in online class spaces. The CER also develops specialized software that creates and supports virtual laboratory environments for a wide range of disciplines.

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