Hacking the Faculty: Bringing Content Discovery Into Online Course Development
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Presentation given at Computers in Libraries, in April 2014. Original Proposal/Abstract: Discovering resources is easier than ever, yet barriers remain for faculty trying to embed quality content into online courses. Course development tools are silo-ed away from content discovery systems, so faculty must leave the Learning Management System (LMS) to seek articles and e-books, then navigate back to the LMS to paste the link. They need to know how to identify persistent URLs and how to enable off-campus access. The process is tedious and fraught with pitfalls. At the University of Central Florida, the Library and the Center for Distributed Learning collaborated to integrate content discovery and selection seamlessly into course creation. The result, dubbed Library Tool, is presented as a simple icon in the LMS on the page-creation form. Library Tool opens a simple search form which returns a results list of full text articles. Faculty can add any article to their page with a single click. The Tool leverages the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards and EBSCO's API, which can be easily adapted by other institutions. The presenters will demonstrate the Library Tool in action and briefly describe the development process as well as an overview of the LTI standard and the EDS API. Finally, we will share preliminary usage and faculty response and will discuss options for future developments.
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Hacking the Faculty: Bringing Content Discovery Into Online Course Development
- 1. Hacking the faculty: Bringing Content Discovery Into Online Course Development Shea Silverman, Center for Distributed Learning Athena Hoeppner, Electronic Resources Librarian University of Central Florida
- 9. Credit Hours and Course Mode Academic Year 2012-2013 • 74.75% of all students took at least one online course • 34.55% of total university credit hours • 14 undergraduate degrees • 24 graduate degrees • 30 graduate certificates 2002-2013 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 02-03 07-08 12-13 Thousands F2F OTHER VIDEO BLENDED (WEB) ONLINE (WEB)
- 10. Use of the Embedded Tools UCF Library Tools May 2013 – April 2014 Visits: 85,451 Unique Visitors: 71,252 Page views: 108,415 One Search Lite 2013-12-17 – April 7th 2014 Searches: 897 Previews: 62 Embeds: 172
- 11. The Integration Collaboration UCF Libraries Center for Distributed Learning
- 12. EBSCO Info Literacy & Outreach eResources Librarian Lib ITCDL Executives Techrangers Canvas Campus IT
- 13. Expect Problems
- 15. LMS and Libraries At One With Each Other
- 16. Questions and Discussion • Shea Silverman – Web Applications Developer – shea.silverman@ucf.edu • Athena Hoeppner, MLIS – Electronic Resources Librarian – athena@ucf.edu
Editor's Notes
- barriers remain for faculty using library content online courses. silo-ed course and library systems, Library subscribes to high quality content, textbooks, images, videos…
- Student view of Canvas learning management system Faculty must leave the Learning Management System (LMS) to seek articles and e-books, then navigate back to the LMS to paste the link. They need to know how to identify persistent URLs and how to enable off-campus access. The process is tedious and fraught with pitfalls.
- Library and the Center for Distributed Learning collaborated to integrate content discovery and selection seamlessly into course creation.
- UCF Library Tools OneSearch Lite integrated into Canvas
- UCF Library on every page in Canvas for both faculty and students Opens a custom page on the Library’s server. The Library controls the content of the page.
- OneSearch Lite integrated into Canvas OneSearch Lite appears as a icon in the LMS in the page-creation tool in the faculty view.
- Opens an customized, embedded search for our EDS implementation, dubbed OneSearch. Faculty can add any article to their page with a single click. Students see the article title as a link, which opens the record in EDS The Tool leverages the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards and EBSCO's API, which can be easily adapted by other institutions. The presenters will demonstrate the Library Tool in action and briefly describe the development process as well as an overview of the LTI standard and the EDS API. Finally, we will share preliminary usage and faculty response and will discuss options for future developments.
- OneSeach Lite uses API to query EDS, with full text only limit set shows results and Preview and Insert buttons
- Insert button pastes a title and permalink into the page
- Permalink goes to the EDS record into the course page
- Request an API account from EBSCO. EBSCO Admin used to set up some parameters, such as Data Sources included in the index to used by the API Auto limitors Search modes View Changes goes to the API Consule
- To use the console to explore the functionality of the API: Login with your EBSCO username/password and profile by pressing the Login button Select one of the service methods to execute On selecting a method, you will be shown a form containing the input parameters for that method Set any parameters you would like to add to your request Press the Send button at the bottom of the form to call the EDS API Check the Request and Response tabs to see the actual request sent to and the response sent from the EDS API Have fun exploring, and please Contact Us if you have any questions
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- The collaborations are a team effort involving many people from the Library and the CDL. We act as partners for visioning, planning, development, and maintenance. 2 projects: Library Tools and OneSearch Lite LTI. Library Tools Collaboration Elizabeth Killingsworth, head of Info Lit and Outreach, Kelvin Thomson, Associate Director, Center for Distributed Learning Made the case that the library must offer the same level of service to online as well as F2F students. CDL and the Libraries formed a team to envision and create a page of library services to present in Canvas. Kelvin, Linda Futch, Elisabeth Greenwood and Elizabeth Killingsworth was formed. Elizabeth polled the librarians and asked for them to rank the library links from the home page by importance for off-campus students. Kelvin coordinated usability testing with about 10 students using three example photoshopped screen designs. Used the usability to decide on the landing page content. After usability they decided that the link should NOT be named any of the things they started with and settled on Library Tools. OneSearch Lite OneSearch Lite involved team meetings of between 2 to 7 people over a period of months. Met to brainstorm ideas, discuss feasibility, review the progress, and plan marketing, and discuss assessment. Shae and I corresponded during the development. I advised him about UCF’s OneSearch implementation, EBSCO admin, and set up access to the API utility. Shae did all the work with the API and writing the LTI. When it was ready, CDL opened it for testing to a small group if faculty, and refined the functionality. When it was ready for launch, ILO and CDL demoed OneSearch Lite to faculty and taught them how to use it. Now Shae is tracking use and looking for further improvements.
- The seamless working of OneSearch Lite and Library Tools requires shared vision ANF requires many systems to work, with many people behind the scenes making them work. Rabbit hole of systems UCF Libraries pages Canvas and LTIs from CDL EDS (OneSearch) from EBSCOhost EBSCO admin and API OpenURL (to link from EDS to the publisher's site for full text) Authentication systems (Federated ID, Shibboleth, EZproxy) Networking and IT policies (SSL)
- All that connectivity makes a problem in one system affect other systems Example: Libraries Tools and Services (page a on library server embedded as iframe on Canvas). Also ILL. And various problems with EDS…
- Different units have differing perspectives and knowledge sets. All parties need to have a general concept of the whole and need to communicate. Expect regular changes to technology, requirements, capabilities, expectations, goals, etc. Expect to maintain whatever is created. Find out who to contact if you need to make changes to any of the major elements Identify the people who will do regular maintenance Develop: Lines of communication Mutual understanding of the connectivity Defined roles of all involved
- Reduce cognitive load (lower number of nested tasks and multitasking, fewer browser windows open, fewer steps to get to relevant content). Reduce learning curve (no need to learn to navigate library sources in order to obtain relevant articles) Introduction to library tools and services in context of a learning experience. When everything works, it is as natural as air and light to the end users (students and faculty). It will (and should) be taken for granted. Library Tool is a page with UCF Libraries. There is a link to the page from every page in Canvas OneSearch Lite appears as a icon in the LMS in the page-creation tool The icon opens a simple search form which returns a results list of full text articles from EDS Faculty can add any article to their page with a single click. Students see the article tiltle as a link, which opens the record in EDS and The Tool leverages the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards and EBSCO's API, which can be easily adapted by other institutions. The presenters will demonstrate the Library Tool in action and briefly describe the development process as well as an overview of the LTI standard and the EDS API. Finally, we will share preliminary usage and faculty response and will discuss options for future developments.