CORA: An Open Access Community for Faculty and Librarians

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1 CORA: An Open Access Community for Faculty and Librarians
Susan Gardner Archambault Loyola Marymount University

2 What Is CORA?

3 Project Funding Image courtesy of

4 Recipe Metaphor Image courtesy of http://tastykitchen.com

5 Tell us about a research assignment that you think was effective or productive? What made it so?
Did you ever assign a research assignment that wasn’t effective or productive? Why didn’t it work? What features would make a shared online research assignment database easier for you to use? How do you come up with ideas for research assignments? Do you like the name CORA for this project?

6 Project Development

7 Assignments Assignment Example Assignment Search

8 Open Educational Resource (OER)

9 Search Teaching Resources
Teaching Resource Example Search Teaching Resources

10 UX: Ongoing Questions How well are users able to find the results they need when searching for materials on the CORA site? How can their success be improved? What is the information-seeking behavior of instruction librarians as they design research assignments? Which online resources do they use? How can the ease of use be improved for CORA contributors? How can CORA be useful for an international audience beyond the United States?

11 Overlap: Information Literacy Standards in US, UK, & AU/NZ
Identify Info Need Find Info Evaluate Info Use Info Ethics ACRL Standards (US 2001) ACRL 1 (Defines info need) ACRL 2 (Accesses info) ACRL 3 (Evaluates info critically) ACRL 4 (Uses info effectively) ACRL 5 (Uses info ethically & legally) ACRL Framework (US 2015) Research as inquiry Searching as strategic exploration Authority is constructed /contextual; Scholarship as conversation Information creation as a process Information has value ANCIL (UK 2011) X Strand 5 (Resource discovery) Strand 4 (Mapping and evaluating) Strand 8 (Present and communicate) + Strand 9 (Synthesizing) Strand 7 (Ethical dimension) ANZIL (AU/NZ 2004) ANZIL 1 (Recognizes) ANZIL 2 (Finds) + ANZIL 4 (Manages) ANZIL 3 (Critically evaluates) ANZIL 5 (Applies) ANZIL 6 (Uses) SCONUL (UK 2011) SCONUL 1 (Identify) + SCONUL 2 (Scope) SCONUL 3 (Plan) + SCONUL 4 (Gather) SCONUL 5 (Evaluate) SCONUL 7 (Present) SCONUL 6 (Manage)

12 Revised Assignment Search Filters

13 Search Functionality Search results incomplete Inconsistent tagging

14 Enhance Community Features

15 www.projectcora.org @projectcora facebook.com/openprojectcora
Instruction Section Innovation Award 2017 @projectcora facebook.com/openprojectcora