Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) does not offer a credit-bearing Information Literacy (IL) course. This could be considered problematic in that the literature points to positive student learning outcomes, higher graduation success rates and increased measures of information literacy when such a course is part of the institution's curriculum (Stadler & McDermott, 2018; Cook, 2014). Incorporating a credit-bearing IL course is both urgently necessary in higher education (Badke, 2008) and fundamentally compatible with supporting institutional objectives (Stadler & Rojas, 2019).
The essential goal of the internship was to learn, through practical "real-world" experience, about instructional design in a higher education (specifically, community college) setting. However, this goal could be broken down into three sub-goals:
Learn about the Quality Matters (QM) Review process by...
...participating in an intensive 2-week workshop called Improving Your Online Course (IYOC) wherein the QM Review Standards and Rubric are the focus.
Engage in real QM course audits by...
...applying knowledge from the IYOC workshop and training from the intern's supervisor in order to audit SFCC courses that are currently being taught.
Design and develop an IL course which...
...is appropriate for First-Year (undergraduate) college students;
...meets not only the QM Review standards but SFCC's instructional design standards as well.