March 12, 2018 Meeting of User Education Committee

Agenda not yet available.

Members Present: Susan Avery (ex officio) – Acting Chair, Kelsey Cheshire (18), Kirsten Feist (18), Kate Lambaria (18), Piper Martin (ex officio)

Members Absent: Lisa Janicke Hinchlifee (ex officio) – Chair, Harriet Green (18), Anna Trammell (18), Bethany Anderson (19), Janet Swatscheno (19)

Also in Attendance: Delaney Bullinger (Info Lit GA), Jen-chien Yu (guest)

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Agenda Review
   • Susan went over the agenda, no additions were proposed by committee members.
3. Acclamations, Accolades, Announcements – none
4. Professional Development Series Planning
   • Session dates and details were confirmed.
   • Lecture on Working with International Students will be held on March 30^th from 1-2pm.
     • Three ESL lecturers will be leading.
     • Topics will include: working with international students in the classroom and strategies we can employ at service desks to ensure students are comprehending what we are saying.
     • Committee members were asked to brainstorm questions to ask during the session in advance.
   • Framework Discussion will be held on April 27^th from 12-1pm
     • Susan asked the committee whether they would prefer to hold this session in the 1-2pm time block to match with the ESL lecture, the committee affirmed this choice. Susan will reach out to change the time of this workshop.
     • Topics will include: a short discussion on how the Taskforce decided to develop the Framework and then an overview of and perspectives on how to think about the Framework for instruction.
     • The committee discussed planning a longer training for Summer 2018.
5. Student Learning Outcome Plan (Jen-chien)
   • Jen-chien discussed the U of I’s plan to collect SLOs for re-accreditation. Each program must generate an SLO plan, and the Library has put together a taskforce to plan for generating this.
   • Jen-chien provided context for SLO plans and shared some of what the taskforce has been considering when thinking about the Library’s SLO plan
     • The nine goals from the Office of Information Literacy were discussed, some committee members expressed interest in updating these goals in future semesters.
     • The committee was asked to provide feedback on: how to assess student learning on the programmatic level, how do you know students are learning, and how to tell if improvements have been effective?
     • Kirsten Feist mentioned the possible need for the development of wider learning outcomes for all library instruction, similar to the SLOs for all undergraduate students.
     • Jen-chien encouraged committee members to attend the Assess and Connect Workshop Thursday, March 15th 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
       • Register at http://go.library.illinois.edu/assessconnect .
       • In addition, please fill out a pre-forum survey at http://go.library.illinois.edu/survey .
6. Open Textbook Network (Janet)
   • Discussion moved to April meeting.
7. Open discussion – none

Meeting Adjourned at 11am.

 

Respectfully submitted by,

Delaney Bullinger (Information Literacy GA)