Defining the Teaching/Learning Situation

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For the teaching/learning situation, the goal is to design a 16-week, for-credit credit course that aligns with the student learning outcomes for Freshman Foundations, a form of FYE instruction. The course will be delivered face-to-face to between 25 and 30 students and meet twice a week for one hour and fifteen minutes per session. This new course will use team-teaching with two librarians sharing duties. Because this course must align with the student learning outcome set by the university, it will not be restricted to just library instruction, but will cross over into critical thinking and writing. The current student learning outcome for Freshman Foundations is as follows: The student critically analyzes and communicates complex issues and ideas. Ideally, the course will incorporate the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education as the underlying structure.

Since there is no way of knowing what classroom will be assigned, it is unknown if there will be computers or if students would need to bring in their laptops, which can make designing class activities difficult. This would be especially true of class activities that require access to the internet or library databases. Most students have laptops, so problems may be negligible.