Olin College of Engineering’s Library staff set a 2013 academic year goal to transform their instructional program. Grounded in ACRL standards and ABET accreditation criteria, the program would become workshop-based, combining classroom experiences with digital exercises and tools. This presentation highlights the conception and development of the program's research rubric, online portal and interactive tutorials, along with assessment and accreditation potential. The value of the library-faculty-vendor partnership is highlighted and a brief look forward is taken.

1. Library-Faculty-Vendor
Partnership to Create STEM
Digital Learning Activities
Dee Magnoni, Olin College of Engineering
Jackie Ricords, Credo

2. Brief Overview
• About Olin
• Information literacy at Olin
• Creating and executing a rubric
• Challenges & extending partnership
• About Credo
• Creating digital learning activities
• Usability testing
• Looking forward

3. About Olin

4. About Olin’s Library

5. Information Literacy at Olin
• US Standards based (ALA STS, ABET)
• Through years
– First-year AHS
– Second- and/or third-year subject course
– Senior capstone project
• Assignment-driven
• Mostly lecture with open research time, using
LibGuides

6. Creating and Executing a Rubric
• Flip to workshop-based
• Partner with faculty to create
research rubric
• General to specific
• Digital exercises & tools
• Flexible, modular
• Word doc, Research tips,
LibGuide
• Assessment of student work
• Rubric testing

7. Challenges & Extending the Partnership
Extend the Partnership…Enter Credo

8. About Credo

9. Creating Digital Learning Activities:
Instructional Design Process
• Initial brainstorming
• Process outline
• Development of storyboard
• Development of assessment components
• Development of multimedia material

10. Creating Digital Learning Activities:
Common Challenges

11. Creating Digital Learning Activities

12. Usability Testing
• Female
• Sophomore
• Electrical and Computer
Engineering
• Female
• Senior
• Engineering with
concentration in
interaction design
• Female
• Senior
• Electrical and Computer
Engineering
• Male
• Junior
• Engineering with
concentration in
computer engineering

13. Looking Forward

14. Summary and Resources:
http://corp.credoreference.com/images/PDFs/Oli
n_Partnership.pdf

15. Thank you!
Dee Magnoni
dianna.magnoni@olin.edu
Jackie Ricords
jackie@credoreference.com