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The Possibilities and Challenges in Integrating Information Literacy Instruction in Support of Open Pedagogy

Information Literacy Summit 2022

April 1, 2022

Junie Hayashi & Jason Yamashita

Leeward Community College / UHCC OER Team

~ A Case Study and Discussion

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Presentation Pathway

Case Study

  • Cynthia Orozco and zine project (Library Science 101)
  • OER and open pedagogy
  • ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
  • Integration: six frames, open pedagogy, and zine project/course

Discussion

An invitation…

  • We invite you to unpack this topic with us as an opportunity to expand the value of information literacy towards open education engagement.

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Open Pedagogy Approaches edited by K. Hoffman and A. Clifton is CC BY 4.0

“I posit an informed [open] pedagogy that

1) teaches students about, and brings students into, the greater open education movement, in which

2) students decide individually and negotiate as a whole their preferred individual and collective authorship that lastly,

3) allows students to opt-out at any point in the class,...”

Cynthia Orozco

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Zine Project

Eight-week Library Science 101 course (college research skills)

Honors program

Meets one day per week; 2 hour sessions

Capstone OER project is a zine

  • Collaboration
  • Openly licensed
  • Audience - other students
  • Distributed in print - traditional zine format

Scaffold info lit instruction around concepts of “open”

Selected images from Info = Power - Library Science 101 Zine (Fall 2018) by Library Science 101 Honors Students (Fall 2018) is CC BY 4.0

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“…higher education shall be equally accessible to all”

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Graphic from presentation by David Ernst, Open Education Network licensed under CC BY 4.0

OER and OEP

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OER

The six Creative Commons licenses

UNESCO definition of OER:

“Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.”

Creative Commons (CC) licenses work with copyright.

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Open Pedagogy

5Rs of OER: revise, remix, reuse, retain, redistribute

OER-Enabled Pedagogy

“…is the set of teaching and learning practices only possible or practical when you have permission to engage in the 5R activities.” David Wiley

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Open Pedagogy

“...we might think about Open Pedagogy as an access-oriented commitment to learner-driven education AND as a process of designing architectures and using tools for learning that enable students to shape the public knowledge commons of which they are a part.”

Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani

student-centered

community / connections

content creation

critical use of technologies

collaboration & process

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Disposable

Assignments

Renewable

Assignments

Instructor gives assignment

Student works on assignment, then submits it to instructor for an assessment

Instructor returns graded assignment to student

Student might keep the assignment

(or dispose of it!)

Student works on assignment, which may include peer or community collaboration and review

Assignment submitted to instructor for an assessment

Instructor provides assessment, returning the assignment to student. BUT THEN…

Instructor gives assignment

…the student is invited to give the assignment a CC license, allowing the work to be used “openly” to benefit future students

(or even the wider community!)

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Informed” Open Pedagogy

Nurture Understanding and Engagement

  • What is “Open”?
  • Publishing
  • Ownership and usage
    • Intellectual property
    • Copyright, fair use, public domain
    • Open licenses, especially CC licenses
  • Information literacy - research skills
  • Digital literacy - platforms and media awareness
  • Process-focused
  • Informed consent
    • Option to opt out of public presence

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Zine Project

Renewable

Assignment -

a zine created by

students for students

Open license: CC BY 4.0

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Six Frames

  • Authority Is Constructed and Contextual

  • Information Creation as a Process

  • Information Has Value

  • Research as Inquiry

  • Scholarship as Conversation

  • Searching as Strategic Exploration

Note: The listed order of the frames does not represent a sequential process.

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Searching as Strategic Exploration

FRAME

OPEN PEDAGOGY

LIB SCIENCE 101

Question: For information literacy instruction, do you suggest some resources that are open access and barrier-free?

Information searching for proficiency and adaptability

Evaluation

Incorporating OPEN resources: open access journals, OER repositories, websites with openly licensed content

Articulate information needs and determine search strategies across a variety of search tools

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Information Creation as a Process

FRAME

OPEN PEDAGOGY

LIB SCIENCE 101

The creation process informs the resulting product and its format

Understanding “open,” OER, open practices

e.g., Comparing open access vs. non-open access articles

Explore resources and formats

Production and dissemination

Considerations of the intended audience for the product

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Information Has Value

FRAME

OPEN PEDAGOGY

LIB SCIENCE 101

Intellectual property - legal and social aspects

Copyright - authors’ ownership rights and responsibilities

Plagiarism

Copyright

Fair use

Public domain

Open access

Open licenses

CC licenses

Traditional knowledge

Traditional publishing vs. open publishing

License understanding and selection

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Research as Inquiry

FRAME

OPEN PEDAGOGY

LIB SCIENCE 101

Research is exploratory, iterative

Engagement with open concepts and resources (additional readings, videos)

Human resources for OER support (e.g., librarians)

Research, organize and interpret information

At the 6th week (of the 8-week course) - Receive the final capstone ZINE project guidelines

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Scholarship as Conversation

FRAME

OPEN PEDAGOGY

LIB SCIENCE 101

Scholarship is fluid and contains various perspectives

Collaboration

Reflective practice, peer review

Barriers to communication (e.g., academic language)

Deconstruct scholarly articles to understand components

Language use, communication styles, cultural considerations

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Authority Is Constructed and Contextual

FRAME

OPEN PEDAGOGY

LIB SCIENCE 101

Considers different types of authorities in relation to specific information needs

Respect of intellectual property

As content creators, students develop their own authoritative voices

Student agency: Emphasis that students are the experts

Students articulate why they are able to give other students advice

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Mahalo!

Mentimeter

Question 1:

Question 2:

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Let’s Discuss

Possibilities and Challenges

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Final Questions and Comments

May the conversation continue…

Junie Hayashi, junie@hawaii.edu

Jason Yamashita, jasonty@hawaii.edu

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Resources

Note: Listed in order as they appear in presentation

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Additional Resource: open pedagogy graphic