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Colleagues:

 

NILRC President, Sherrill Weaver, invites you to participate in a wiki-based conversation between now and our

February 13th, 2009 Virtual Council of Delegates meeting.

 

E-mail is not a good tool for collaborative work, so we are using the new NILRC wiki for this process,  For those, unfamiliar with wikis, see a short video called "Using a Wiki in Plain English" at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY  or use the items above under "Free help."

 

 

So here we go...

 

At the Allerton meeting in September 2008, we started a discussion about the future of NILRC by identifying what issues NILRC members are concerned about, as what we want or need to do in the future.  In order to extend that discussion, we have set up this wiki.  We invite anyone at a NILRC institution to suggest changes to this list - our goal is to extend the discussion as widely as possible.  Please use your institutional email address when creating an account so that we can more easily approve your login.  

 

Following "NILRC’s Future Issues List" is the list re-organized under broad categories of action.  Please suggest other ways of organizing the list into possible categories that could guide our future actions and organizational planning.

 

During the February 2009 NILRC meeting, we will discuss the list and the categories.  Then, we will rank the categories of actions in terms of our priorities for the future.

 

 

Sherrill Weaver for the Executive Committee and John W. Berry, Executive Director

 

"NILRC’s Future Issues List" Action Categories

 

Collaboration Using Learning Resources & Learning Objects to Teach Online

¨   Learning object repositories and collaboration across the college and within the departments

     Oakton Community College -- NILRC has a major budget line for this but adoption of repositories is very slow and there are low-cost and free repositories appearing.  We need to explore whether this is a viable product for NILRC given our college's expected use.  Should we also be sharing our knowledge about existing responsitories

 

     Highland CC - Issues around marketing repositories to faculty.  Understanding copyright issues

     Kankake Community College-ditto to understanding copyright issues

 

    Shawnee Community College- We are using the repositories from Dallas and collecting feedback.  They seem to be liked, but the cost and bandwidth                demands are issues. 

 

      Rend Lake College

 

St. Charles Community College – I think we are a year or two from getting to the adoption of a learning object repository, but I am interested in what others are experiencing.

 

¨   Textbooks costs and online learning – stand alone & online

                    Oakton Community College - texbook costs are becoming a major barrier to effective learning and teaching as students try to interlibrary loan textbooks and avoid buying them altogether.  There are options that groups - ACRL divisions - are developing that we could explore and agree to coordinated advocacy with our colleagues who make textbooks decisions.

                    Northwestern College (ditto)

                    John Wood Community College - my thoughts are similar to above

Joliet Junior College- Student Government throught the auspices of Student Services worked with the library  academic deparments and book store to created a reserve textbook program that is housed in our periodical area. This is a voluntary program with departments, but not all departments contribute. This needs to be funded.

Triton College - I think that the cost of textbooks is hurting students. Can costs be contained? Can e-books be an affordable substitute?

Illinois  Central College - E-books and reserved books will be helpful to the students who take online classes and would not buy print books.

McHenry County College - We don't have space for textbooks on reserve. Pluse we wonder what happens when students need the book for a class, and another wants to use this to study. We discussed the open source textbooks. Check out the blog articles from Wired and this article from Wired as well. This seems like an interesting option for the students. Rice University and University of Georgia are doing this.

College of Lake County This is a big issue on campus, with a committee focused on this.  The most recent Educause Review has a great series of articles on electronic textbooks --the pros and  cons -- that everyone should read.

¨   Duplicated databases with coursepak/publisher paks for DL

 

    

¨   Content expertise spread to more faculty and students with no more personnel

 

¨   Embedded librarian and limited library faculty

              Black Hawk College

               John Wood Community College - we've discussed an embedded librarian as a part of a tutoring system for online students. 

                    Highland Community College- we also have discussed this.  One of our online instructors requires his     students have either a F2F meeting or an online meeeting with a librarian for an information lit session.

Kankakee Community College:   Interested in embedded librarianship.

                    Illinois Central College - This is something we have one or two faculty doing with us, but no formal program and would like to investigate further.

 

Joliet Junior College has had discussions with nursing to place library personel in Nursing  instruction lab, and is working on a team teaching approach with English Faculty. 

 

St. Charles Community College – We have approximately ½ dozen faculty members that are utilizing our librarians as embedded librarians in their distance learning courses.

College of Lake County  We too have library faculty embedded in 10 or so online courses.   In fact, we just did a video about it that will be on the North Subruban Library System's website.  One of the concerns is how to keep this up and grow it with growing demands elsehwere.  The librarians are creating subjects guides to help, using LIbGuides (I highly recommend this product). 

 

¨   Library2.0 : liaison, online librarian, service in person and online, blogging

Kankakee Community College  interest in Library 2.0. and ways to bring library services to online students. 

          Shawnee- We just had our online degree approved.  We must offer our online students the same resources as our traditional students.

          John Wood Community College - we are working on accreditation for our online degree

     and understand that we must offer our online/distance students the same services and resources.  So  farr my voice has been very small in this discussion on our campus.

          Triton College Libraries need to communicate more effectively with students but not waste time and resources on technology that has a limited return. How do we decide best use of limited personnel and time.

          Illinois Central College - We would very much like to investigate this, especially the use of Facebook and the legalities thereof

 

¨   Ebooks and delivery (could someone elaborate?)

          Illinois Valley Community College

                    Oakton Community College - Ebook textbooks can't readily be "marked"

                    by students, can't be kept, and can't be resold.  That said, this option for both

                    textbooks and esp. other books will likely become more popular.  

                    I'd like to see it explored.

                    Joliet Junior College-ebrary contract, thinking about MyMedia Mall

Kankakee Community College  Interest in e-books and in particular, downloadable books

McHenry County College

¨   Kindle & SONY readers, mobile technology for instruction

                    Black Hawk College

                    John Wood Community College - mild interest in the use of Kindle & Sony readers.  From what I'm reading, not a lot of folks are jumping on the band wagon, but I think it is worth exploring. 

 

¨   Telecourses obsolete – video and instructional design

                     St. Louis Community College - transitioning from courses based on full-length video series to online courses using video to enhance/supplement the course via streaming video with links embedded in a CMS.

 

St. Charles Community College – departure from telecourse/teleweb courses have caused many instructors to develop their own content without the aid of instructional designers.

 

     John Wood Community College -

Kankakee Community College:    There has been some interest in transitioning to videostreaming

 

 

Rend Lake College

 

¨   Integrated video not stand alone

 

¨   Instructional modalities

 

¨   Technology changes – players vs channels

 

¨   Impact of changing tech on DL

 

¨   Publisher vs faculty created material and intellectual property – features of adaptability and limited follow on access / with mandated ‘new editions’ of publisher ownership

 

¨   Learning repository and resources

 

Institutional Planning for Online, Telecourse, & Media-Based Courses

¨   Awareness of online institutions, programs, courses – research on marketing success and student choices within registration schedules available – is there lack of choice with some modes of delivery – fewer oncampus with rise in online? Or just more students in both?  What have trends been and how is that changing?  Student preferences and influences – cms, bandwidth, course structure, course experience, learning choices, schedule load,

 

Illinois Central College - We are finding it challenging to market our online resources for our LRC, both with faculty and students, and especially those for totally online classes.

John Wood Community College -  we are in the same situation, many of our faculty routinely provide support material that traditionally students went to the library for are being placed CMS'.  Use of our reserve system is practically nil.  In my opinion is seems there is competition between CMS' and online resources library resources.

 

¨   Research on student choices in scheduling and mixing modes

 

¨   New scheduling as fill in with online in M-W or T-R or 4 day week or Friday only classes or weekends

                         Northwestern College-we do offer Friday and Saturday only classes, as well as the usual M-W and T-R and online courses.

 

 

                              Lake Land College - Committees studying the creation of 4-day instructional week; also looking at how many students are self-selecting 4-day (or less) schedules

 

¨   Data about where students are in modes of delivery and their choices / option

 

¨   Creativity and new modes of delivery

 

¨   Hybrid/Blended courses

Joliet Junior College- Investigation going on as to reasons why blended course have a lower rate of success when compared to full online courses. One observation: Students signing up for blended classes don't understand the concept and are not prepared for this mode of instruction.

 

Rend Lake College -

 

Oakton Community College - scheduling conflicts are the major reason students in our district take online courses.  Having a blended format decreases the flexibility; this has not been a popular option for our students.  However, due to IAI constraints, online speech and science courses utilize this approach.

 

¨   Bandwidth – state and city infrastructure vs. increased loads with streaming/digital/social network demands.  Service depends on bandwidth.  With streaming vidoes, ebooks, etc. bandwidth becomes increasingly important to the library and its users.

                         Illinois Valley Community College 

                         St. Louis Community College - decisions on how much college servers can support and how much would need to be outsourced.

                         Rend Lake College

                              Black Hawk College

                         John Wood Community College - ditto

 

                               Lake Land College - concerned with bandwidth issues in rural areas; penetration of BB internet access is far less in some areas of the state, maing streaming media impracticable

 

                              Illinois Central College - ditto what Lake Land said

                      

¨   Costs of multiple modes of delivery

 

¨   Accreditation

Joliet Junior College- pretty much left out of AQUIP process, must have better representation. Often library stuff written without consultation. Ouch.

 

St. Charles Community College  - We are looking at the long range strategy for distance learning, the need for additional support, and the possibility of offering a distance learning degree.

 

¨   Retooling & planning

 

 

          

          Highland CC - Currently for online students, we use an inital student login as the birthdate in 6           digits. (once students login, they can change them.)  FERPA directs that we can no longer do that.           How toefficiently set initial passwords?

 

¨   New proxy server 4

Joliet Junior College- Just started our proxy service last fall, ongoing issues with Ebsco authentication. Hard sell to IT--we started wanting this 10 years ago. 

¨   New admin systems

 

¨   Switching platforms for DL

 

¨   Presidents – 8  new + 1 in search

 

¨   Restructuring

Joliet Junior College--firmly enscouned in Educause model though we don't feel the relationship is there. Re-establishing extended campus relationship

¨   Competition for bandwidth

 

¨   Cms functionality – proxy vs widgets, menus

Joliet Junior College- migrating to new webpage with MS Sharepoint the Cms. Loss of design rights to the overall page--one size fits all approach.  

¨   Subdivisions vs admin & legacy systems and ideas collide

 

Library Online Resource Planning

¨   Selecting eresources  or Approval – 11 members present have authority to select or approve final selection

          McHenry County College

 

¨   Serials and overlap analysis and tools available from vendors to use in selection process

 

¨   Serials Solutions & EBSCO LinkSource

 

¨   Talking to vendors with usage statistics & overlap analysis

Illinois Valley Community College  (We would like vendor reporting to standardize to some extent for ease of comparison.  www.projectcounter.org  [Counting online usage of Networked Electronic Resources] is working in this direction.)

                    Oakton Community College (Ditto on vendor reporting) 

                    Kankakee Community College:  Likewise, ditto on vendor reporting

                    Illinois Central College - I'll add our "ditto" as well

 

¨   Vendor changes & options

              Lake Land College - We MUST speak with vendors at every opportunity to explain to them how we are different from 4-year institutions, particularly in our budgets. Make strong cases for additional discounts for community colleges and the benefits in working with NILRC. IF YOU VALUE NILRC AND WHAT IT DOES, YOU HAVE TO WORK TO INSURE ITS SURVIVAL. CARLI is a good thing, and I support it - but they cannot do for us what NILRC does. 

Kankakee Community College:  I second the comments made by Lake Land College. 

McHenry County College: I agree. Plus, YBP just hit us mid-year with a gas surcharge. I'd like to find another vendor as I think the customer service is not satisfactory.

 

Illinois Central College - To echo Lake Land, NILRC is so good at getting us those extended discounts.  However, we cannot take NILRC for granted, and so we must also confer with the vendors about our needs as community college.

McHenry County College - Online journal dates keep changing; how do we keep up with these, especially if a journal is yanked from the database (remember JAMA)?

Shawnee- Every member must help find new vendors.  We have added several this year and I am sure we can add more.  With the decrease in telecourse revenue, we must find other ways to generate revenue.  Look at what NILRC has saved us ... can we afford not to use NILRC?

John Wood Community College - I would agree CAN WE AFFORD NOT TO USE NILRC?

Highland CC - ditto

Triton College We need to maximize our return on e-resources. When do we switch to online only?

 

Planning for Developing & Sustaining Online & Media-Based Programs

¨   8 members have some program involving globalization

 

¨   UI global campus

 

¨   Online program

 

¨   Menu of configurations and flexibility/choices

 

¨   Students who still need telecourses – equipment accessibility and student skills

                   

¨   Student options for delivery based on their resources vs college resources

 

¨   Media format issues moves telecourse to online

                    St. Louis Community College - cost prohibitive to continue with over the air broadcast of telecourses; move to make students transition to computer-based learning which provides more interactivity.

     John Wood Community College - I want to be able to access everything from the desktop.

 

 

Online, Telecourse, & Media-Based Student Support

¨   What we see and where it is as design and communication issues in support

 

¨   Faculty & students reading instructions for teaching and taking online courses

 

¨   Testing centers for hybrid courses and load on resources

 

¨   Language barriers in oncampus vs online asynchronous and implications for language skill development and reading support through learning centers

 

¨   Surveys of students and increased costs due to gas prices, other issues

 

¨   Chat reference and online reference – movable reference desks

                     Northwestern College-We do not have this currently, but down the road it's a real possibility.  Would like to find out what others are doing.    

 

¨   Support services talking to each other including library – lend expertise from experience – integrate for online students

John Wood Community College - what tutoring services are available to each online student, how do we provide reference help for online how do we connect to them, (embedded librarian?)

 

Triton College  As we strengthen our online presence, we need to expand our measn to work with students remotely.

 

      Highland CC - ditto

 

 

¨   Testing security and monitoring responsibilities as students develop their skills in getting around security  for hybrid courses

 

¨   Advising counseling recognition of skills needed both for trad age and adult learners

 

Online student learning & infotech literacy skills

 

¨   Developmental students – 75% and how to teach literacies

 

¨   Information & technology literacy and/or digital information fluency in context of academic literacy – transition from HS to college learning

                    Illinois Valley Community College

                          Oakton Community College (This will be a big issue statewide as 21st Century Skills becomes an important part of workforce devleopment funded by state & federal gov.  We already know how important it is to our students, but shared development of a curriclum to meet the needs of our students would lessen the burden on all of us, create a consistency that we can advocate for all undergraduates, and provide a consistent benchmark for each of us when we do our program reviews.)

                              Black Hawk College

                              John Wood Community College

 

                         Rend Lake College          

                         Triton College I think that information literacy is critical especially in light of students technical skills and gaps.

                         Illinois Central College - Sharing information in this regard would a HUGE help, and I do believe NILRC can facilitate in this regard.

 

¨   Technology competencies of students – communication tech is high but computer tech low, personal learning skills and learning styles for success online, social interaction and community building online

                    St. Louis Community College - need to require technology/computer skills placement test or utilization of an assessment tool to measure student technology/computer literacy prior to taking an online course.

 

    Shawnee- They seem to know Facebook, but not how to send an attachment.

John Wood Community College - Our experience as well, how do we translate the skills they already have and apply them to the skills they need

 

          Rend Lake College 

 

¨   Student skills and performance in online classes – placement, self-selection, assessment, advising, research on retention and completion, mandatory tutorials – who is target of marketing?

 

¨   Students mix oncampus, online, hybrid course enrollment

                         Northwestern College

                              Highland CC  - student confusion about who/where instructor is. 

¨   Access offcampus to databases

                         Northwestern College-also would like to find out what others are doing here.

                              John Wood Community College - we currently use EZproxy for authentication 

                              but is there a better way 

¨   Terminology of library services - JWCC something like a glossary?

 

¨   Terminology of DL - JWCC glossary?

 

¨   Preparation for using online resources

Illinois Valley Community College--Perphaps we could do more to market ourselves to online students and create generic tutorials which many NILRC libraries could use.

John Wood Community College

 

Illinois Central College

 

 

 

 

Highland CC - pre-test for online learners?  (skills assessment; readiness, hardware requirements )

 

Black Hawk College 

 

 

Shawnee

                          

¨   Letter to students who have enrolled in online courses with expectations of how to take an online course

     JWCC - perhaps not how to take an online course but what library services are available and how do they access those resources - alternative to google.

     Oakton Community College - I agree with JWCC; currently we advise online faculty to link to library resources from their online courses.   

¨   Assessment of student learning in hybrid and online courses – paradigm and technology problems and solutions

 

Faculty Development for Online Learning & Teaching

¨   Faculty professional development

                         St. Louis Community College - formulation of Centers for Teaching & Learning at each campus will conduct faculty training in the online environment, in coordination with Instructional Designers. 

 

¨   Faculty retiring and new faculty changes expectations and skills

 

¨   Professional development and ‘progress’

          Highland CC - best practices for online teaching.

¨   Old positions

 

¨   New positions

 

¨   People – instructors

 

 

 

NILRC’s Future Issues List (in alphabetical order)

 

 

• 8 NILRC member institutions have some program involving globalization
• Access offcampus to databases
• Accreditation
• Advising counseling recognition of skills needed both for traditional age and adult learners
• Assessment of student learning in hybrid and online courses – paradigm and technology problems and solutions
• Awareness of online institutions, programs, courses – research on marketing success and student choices within registration schedules available – is there lack of choice with some modes of delivery – fewer on-campus with rise in online? Or just more students in both?  What have trends been and how is that changing?  Student preferences and influences – CMS, bandwidth, course structure, course experience, learning choices, schedule load,
• Bandwidth – state and city infrastructure vs. increased loads with streaming/digital/social network demands
• Chat reference and online reference – movable reference desks
• CMS functionality – proxy vs widgets, menus
• Competition for bandwidth
• Content expertise spread to more faculty and students with no more personnel
• Costs of multiple modes of delivery
• Creativity and new modes of delivery
• Data about where students are in modes of delivery and their choices / option
• Developmental students – 75% and how to teach literacies
• Duplicated databases with course-pak/publisher paks for DL
• E-books and delivery
• Embedded librarian and limited library faculty
• Faculty & students reading instructions for teaching and taking online courses
• Faculty professsional development
• Faculty retiring and new faculty changes expectations and skills
• Hybrid courses
• Impact of changing tech on DL
• Information & technology literacy and/or digital information fluency in context of academic literacy – transition from HS to college learning
• Instructional modalities
• Integrated video not stand alone
• Kindle & SONY readers, mobile technology for instruction
• Language barriers in on-campus vs online asynchronous and implications for language skill development and reading support through learning centers
• Learning object repositories and collaboration across the college and within the departments
• Learning repository and resources
• Letter to students who have enrolled in online courses with expectations of how to take an online course
• Library2.0 : liaison, online librarian, service in person and online, blogging
• Media format issues moves telecourse to online
• Menu of configurations and flexibility/choices
• New admin systems
• New positions
• New proxy server 4
• New scheduling as fill in with online in M-W or T-R or 4 day week or Friday only classes or weekends
• Old positions
• Online program
• People – instructors
• Preparation for using online resources
• Presidents – 8  new + 1 in search
• Professional development and ‘progress’
• Publisher vs faculty created material and intellectual property – features of adaptability and limited follow on access / with mandated ‘new editions’ of publisher ownership
• Research on student choices in scheduling and mixing modes
• Restructuring
• Retooling & planning
• Selecting e-resources  or Approval – 11 members present have authority to select or approve final selection
• Serials and overlap analysis and tools available from vendors to use in selection process
• Serials Solutions & EBSCO Link Source
• Student options for delivery based on their resources vs college resources
• Student skills and performance in online classes – placement, self-selection, assessment, advising, research on retention and completion, mandatory tutorials – who is target of marketing?
• Students mix on-campus, online, hybrid course enrollment
• Students who still need telecourses – equipment accessibility and student skills
• Subdivisions vs admin & legacy systems and ideas collide
• Support services talking to each other including library – lend expertise from experience – integrate for online students
• Surveys of students and increased costs due to gas prices, other issues
• Switching platforms for DL
• Talking to vendors with usage statistics & overlap analysis
• Technology changes – players vs channels
• Technology competencies of students – communication tech is high but computer tech low, personal learning skills and learning styles for success online, social interaction and community building online
• Telecourses video and instructional design
• Terminology of DL
• Terminology of library services
• Testing centers for hybrid courses and load on resources
• Testing security and monitoring responsibilities as students develop their skills in getting around security  for hybrid courses
• Textbooks costs and online learning – stand alone & online
• UI global campus
• Vendor changes & options
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