This chapter discusses hurdles posed to a medium-sized public university library in the Midwest when they were asked by their Dean to create a faculty workload worksheet, rationale, and ultimately a set of guidelines. Faculty in other departments compute their loads using formulas based on course loads. How many hours they spend in the classroom, and how many hours they... Read more »

The Practice of Being a Student: CoPs and Graduate Student Success

2017

This report frames the major results of recent research into graduate student success using a community of practice model based on the work of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger as the organizational framework and lens for analyzing collected data. The goal was to determine if a community of practice developed among doctoral students and if so, whether it aided the students ... Read more »

STEM High School Teachers’ Views of Implementing PBL: An Investigation Using Anecdote Circles

2016

Problem-based learning (PBL) has been gaining in popularity, especially within the context of STEM-based (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) schools. Program assessments for these schools typically focus on student standardized test scores rather than the needs of the teachers... Read more »

Supported Student Success: Communities of Practice in Higher Education

2014

This research tells a story about how students form communities of practice that help them succeed in graduate school. Told within the context of individual and collective experiences, it holds valuable lessons for how student success can be supported across the higher education landscape. Communities of practice can develop spontaneously when individuals involved in a common activity or with a ... Read more »

Supported Student Success: Communities of Practice in Higher Education

2014

This research tells a story about how students form communities of practice that help them succeed in graduate school. Told within the context of individual and collective experiences, it holds valuable lessons for how student success can be supported across the higher education landscape. Communities of practice can develop spontaneously when individuals involved in a common activity or with a... Read more »

Teaching in an Online Environment: Group Work for Critical Thinking

2009

Working in groups online has a wide variety of benefits for both learners and instructors. Understanding how students' critical thinking skills benefit from group work can motivate us as instructors to create group projects specifically for online learning situations.

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Meet Your Librarian – again, and again and again!

2007

A brief case study highlighting ways in which the library became an integral part of a journalism program based on shared interests in information and news literacy.

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Dateline: Library - Services Supporting a Proposed Journalism Program

2006

A brief case study outlining opportunities presented for the library to become an integral part of a new journalism program.

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Using Information Literacy Standards to Improve Geoscience Courses

2003

Information literacy (IL) is the set of skills that enables a person to find, evaluate, and use information. Although IL is important in the geosciences, it is hard to teach because the information comes in so many forms. Most geoscience courses include work that implicitly addresses some IL issues. However, because of the importance of IL, it is worthwhile to explicitly include it as part of the... Read more »

Struggles of the ‘Father’

2002

Biographical account of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, the father of Soviet cosmonautics.

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