Session Time: 11:00- 12:00 PM
The presentation will cover our experience as new instructors with no training or preparation in creating and teaching a credit course. We will share how we created our first online course using a prior skeletal course shell, assessed existing modules for continuing course potential, and determined what other topics the course needed. We will share our successes, failures, how we assessed our and our students’ performances, readjusted to the physical classroom, and continue to adjust and amend our teaching practices and assessments to better serve our students and grow as effective instructors.
Speaker(s):
Amanda Melchor
Bailey Smith
Campus:
TAMU-K
Speaker Bio(s):
Amanda Melchor is an Associate Librarian for Reference & Instruction at Texas A&M University - Kingsville. She received her B.A. in English from Rice University in 2009 and her M.S.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign. She's worked as a reference and instruction librarian at TAMUK since 2014, and began teaching a credit course in information literacy since Fall 2020.
Bailey Smith is the Head of Special Collections and Archives and a Reference & Instruction librarian at Texas A&M University - Kingsville. She received her B.A. in International Studies from Texas A&M University - College Station in 2013, her M.S.L.S. from the University of North Texas in 2016, her MBA from TAMUK in 2020, and her Doctor of Education from TAMUK in 2022. She's worked as a reference and instruction librarian at TAMUK since 2017, and began teaching a credit course in information literacy since Fall 2020.
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