by Jeanne Holland and Stephanie Espinoza for the CSN Fall 2016 Convocation

1. Promoting Critical
Thinking Online
Jeanne Holland, English Dept.
Stephanie Espinoza, Library

2. WHY ONLINE SERVICES?

3. “I work full time, I have a wife and 3 kids.
Online classes are the only way I can get
a chance to finish my degree.”

4. • Access for students who
can’t do traditional F2F
• Distance Education is
growing

5. ENROLLMENT AT
CSN
•Online classes grow,
campus estimated to
be larger than West
Charleston

6. How can we promote
critical thinking online?

7. STEP 1:THE PARTNERSHIP

13. ENG 100, ENG 101: Fall 2015
ENG 100, ENG 101 : Spring 2016
ENG 102: Fall 2016

14. Students are asked to:
• Develop a topic
• Evaluate sources
• Draft a research paper

15. DEVELOP A
TOPIC
How do we encourage the free
brainstorming of research topics?

16. libguides.csn.edu/ENG100-101-Holland

18. libguides.csn.edu/research-101/choose

19. EVALUATE
SOURCES
How do we create avenues for students to
critically evaluate academic sources?

22. libguides.csn.edu/research-101/evaluate

23. DRAFT A PAPER
How do we foster students’ abilities to
make connections between the stages of
the research process?

26. •Librarian intro video (Human face)
•Custom page/tutorials for assignments
•Work with librarian is REQUIRED for a grade
•Contact via multiple avenues

28. ASSESSMENT

29. “I had a very positive experience.
I am very grateful.”
“I learned that CSN is awesome at helping
and wanting the student to succeed.”

30. • Attitudes improved
• Grades improved because
work improved--more
critical thinking
Confidence After
Librarian Help
More
Confident
Less
Same

31. FINAL PAPER GRADES
Of 28 online
students who
turned in
final papers,
26 earned B
or better on
the paper.

32. “One of the biggest strengths is the
communication between the instructors
(whether it is the class library-Stephanie) or
with Dr. Holland.”
“The teacher…requires you to use an online
librarian which is really cool because I didn’t
know we had an online librarian and it
definitely helped with resources and research.”

34. If interested in collaborating
with a librarian for your
course, contact Stephanie
or visit
www.csn.edu/library

35. Jeanne Holland
Jeanne.Holland@csn.edu
Stephanie Espinoza
Stephanie.Espinoza@csn.edu