VALA2022 E-Poster Hayes

Study Smart: Information research & literacy skills. Online & open to all.

VALA2022 E-Poster

Gabrielle Hayes
  • Liaison Librarian
  • Queensland University of Technology
Megan Brodribb
  • Senior Library Adviser
  • Queensland University of Technology

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Abstract

Study Smart is a Creative Commons licensed, open educational resource (OER) focused on teaching foundational information research and literacy skills reflecting those required in in Higher Education. Developed in line with Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) digital learning framework (2020) and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015), Study Smart is an online self-paced, modularised resource that can be integrated into Curriculum, set as co-curricular learning, or used by students or members of the public who have self-identified as needing skilling up in this area. Each of the four modules provide structured, scaffolded, learning with an emphasis on videos, interactive activities, graphics, and opportunities to test students learning and understanding throughout.

QUT Library has a long history of creating open learning resources with Pilot: Your information navigator – its first iteration of online web-based Information Literacy (IL) skills teaching– being launched in 1999. PILOT was Creative Commons licensed and reused and adapted by Universities within Australia and internationally. The 2020 redevelopment of Study Smart continues this explicit aim of being open, shareable and reusable, retaining its open web presence and unless otherwise noted, operates under Creative Commons licensing in line with QUT Library’s history of supporting open scholarship and publishing.

QUT Library’s Study Smart was designed in-line with QUT’s institutional vision and support for Open Education Resources: “QUT is committed to the creation and dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of society. This includes supporting the use and sharing of Open Educational Resources (OERs) to widen access to education, and to improve both the cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning outcomes” (QUT, 2021).

Study Smart modules were designed with an emphasis on interactivity, multimedia, and explicit learning objects to enhance and augment learning. The overall learning design has the Study Smart website licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA allowing shareability and reusability. In addition to this, individual learning objects were clearly licensed to allow recognition of Creative Commons and to remove any barriers to reuse.  For example, the Study Smart videos are all licensed under Creative Commons allowing shareability and reusability. In addition to being found on the Study Smart website, all videos (and their transcripts) are hosted on the QUT Library YouTube channel allowing findability and accessibility. Content such as the skills templates (for skills such as article evaluation and notetaking) are another example highlighting Study Smart’s policy for sharing and reuse of content. These templates are all downloadable and able to be used offline with a view for adaption, sharing and reuse institutionally and beyond. Links to additional or supporting resources are open and freely accessible wherever possible, while any links to QUT-specific material is minimal and clearly signposted.

QUT Library’s Study Smart is a leading example of how institutional/organizational learning resources primarily created for internal audiences (students & staff) can easily incorporate OER principles to become valuable resources  for a wider audience, contributing to the ideals of open access and equity in education and research.

Biography

Gabrielle Hayes and Megan Brodribb are Librarians with extensive experience in the Learning and Teaching of Information literacy skills in Higher Education. They led the redevelopment of Study Smart 2020 and continue to manage and oversee its roll-out across QUT.

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VALA2020 SC5 Howard

Traversing the Continuum of Virtual Reality: from 360 Video to Augmented Reality. A look at the Present and Future from the Perspective of a Library and a Vendor

VALA2020 SC5
Wednesday 12 February 2020, 2:45 – 3:50

Sarah Howard
  • Queensland University of Technology
David Parker
  • ProQuest

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Abstract

Immersive content for higher education and beyond exists along a continuum that correlates ease of creation, prevalence of availability and cost to deploy.

Virtual Reality, 360 video, 3D objects, and Augmented Reality may be accessible on a multitude of platforms (freely available or costly) using mobile devices (low cost or expensive hardware). Libraries and publishers are progressing along this continuum at equal pace, but with a shared awareness that in the not-too-distant future the continuum will compress, and content will be accessible as easily, or more easily, than the content is today.

What challenges does this pose for the library and its industry partners? Join us in exploring this question as Sarah Howard of Queensland University of Technology and David Parker of ProQuest share where QUT and ProQuest are on this continuum at present, and the risks and opportunities to traverse thinking 10 years out.

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VALA2002 Session 1 Shulz

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The Internet Resources Project: an Exercise in Collaboration

VALA2002 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Collaboration
Wednesday 6 February 2002, 11:55 – 12:30
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Natalie Schulz

Griffith University Library

Sarah Fredline

Queensland University of Technology Library

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Abstract

This paper describes a collaborative effort to select and describe free Internet resources by Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Libraries in Brisbane, Australia. After considering the options available, the Libraries decided to trial selection and description of free Internet resources by Reference staff using a web input form, with some records upgraded to full cataloguing.

 

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VALA2016 Session 3 Pozzi

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Megan Pozzi
Megan Pozzi

Formalising the vernacular: social media skills in higher education

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Publish IT
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
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Megan Pozzi

Queensland University of Technology

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Abstract

This paper discusses the issue of social media skills using a literacy framework. Firstly, it argues that social media skills are a form of vernacular, or ‘everyday’, literacy and articulates the issues associated with trying to formalise these skills within the curriculum. Secondly, it calls for greater explicit attention to social media skills within higher education, by arguing that social media literacies are a part of new literacies. It evaluates QUT’s “Create a Better Online You” suite of social media resources in light of this framework, and discusses the role of libraries in addressing social media skills.

 

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VALA2014 Session 11 Cleary

Possible, inevitable or fait accompli? An analysis of streaming video acquisition, acceptance and use in higher education

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 11: Crossing the Stream
Thursday 6 February 2014, 11:05 – 11:35
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2014-proceedings/vala2014-session-11-cleary

Colleen Cleary

Queensland University of Technology

Olivia Humphrey

Kanopy, WA

Alison Bates

La Trobe University Library, Vic

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Abstract

This paper explores the potential for online video as a mechanism to transform the ways students learn, as measured by research, user experience and usage following surveys and trials of patron-driven acquisition collaboratively undertaken by Queensland University of Technology, La Trobe University and Kanopy.

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