Student Learning Outcomes for Scholarship as Conversation Tutorial
- Describe how scholarship is a conversation
- Identify methods to narrow search results based on currency and relevancy
- Identify the knowledge practices and dispositions of learners who are developing their information-literate abilities
- Apply these concepts to real-world examples
Ways to Include the Tutorial in Your Course
Partner with the Libraries (minimal commitment from you)
Comes with these added benefits:
- We offer an introductory virtual meeting to help you incorporate the tutorial into your course structure.
- Receive updates from the library, at your request, about optional user surveys completed by your students (students have the option to remain anonymous)
- Additionally, you may provide valuable feedback to the library about your experience and the relevance of the tutorial to your course.
If you would like to partner with the Libraries, please contact Liz King. We ask that partners require their students to complete the Scholarship as Conversation tutorial, preferably for some form of course credit. Partners should communicate any relevant course-specific deadlines to Liz King..
Non-Partner Options (no commitment from you)
If you cannot partner with the Libraries, you can still share the Scholarship as Conversation tutorial with your students. It is available in Percipio to the RPI community. Percipio student profiles include completion certificates.
Details about the Tutorial
Co-Curricular Activity Details
- Created by RPI Librarians
- Asynchronous and self-paced
- Applicable to all disciplines
- Certificate of completion is awarded in Percipio
- Incorporates the Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education from ACRL
- Utilizes best practices for instruction tools and resources
- Tutorials are designed using Adobe Captivate (2023 version) and are published as a SCORM2004 4th edition package.
- Tutorials are hosted on Percipio (ensuring students earn credit for the assignment using their RCS ID).
- Assessment measures include knowledge checks, interactive activities, embedded quiz questions, and applications to real-world examples.
Roadmap of Tutorials
RPI Libraries piloted a new series of online tutorials introducing information literacy concepts during the Fall 2023 semester. In Spring 2024, the Scholarship as Conversation 2.0 tutorial was released, incorporating feedback from faculty and students who participated in the pilot.
Future tutorials will cover the following information literacy concepts:
- Authority is Constructed and Contextual
- Information Creation as a Process
- Information Has Value
- Research as Inquiry
- Searching as Strategic Exploration
