Faculty often are frustrated by the quality of student research, including low scholarly resource use and lack of evaluation skills. Miami University (Oxford, OH) has created a faculty learning community (comprised of both ...

Miami University Libraries created a Personal Librarian program to supplement our liaison system in support of student success and information literacy advancement. Our program was designed to integrate into university ...

ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system ...

As librarianship continues to evolve, the roles of the liaison librarian have also changed considerably. So, what are the priorities for an effective liaison? This program will detail our institution's reframing of liaison ...

Affordable Learning (AL) initiatives allow faculty to identify ways they can reduce or eliminate textbooks costs for students. Session attendees will learn about these initiatives and how they can begin to implement them ...

This poster provides an overview of the OER adopt/adapt program, the SGID method, and data from 2.5 years of implementing the assessment. Data indicates trends in student learning that occur with the implementation of OER. ...

INTRODUCTION To address the soaring cost of textbooks, higher education institutions have launched a number of strategies to promote the adoption of affordable and open educational resources (AOER). Although a few models ...

As the need for higher education has increased in the preceding decades, so have the costs associated with it. Our institution has implemented numerous affordable learning initiatives in response, including an OER adopt/adapt ...

How information literate are our students? How can we tell if their skills are improving during their college years? Standardized IL tests are available (iCriticalThinking and SAILS), but each requires a considerable ...