Open Calculus: A Free Online Learning Environment

Dartmouth College mathematicians have developed a free online calculus course called "Open Calculus." Open Calculus is an exportable distance-learning/self-study environment for learning calculus including written text, nearly 4000 online homework problems and instructional videos. The paper recounts the evaluation of course elements since 2000 in two experimental/control course situations involving nearly 300 students

Amplifying Student Voices in Library Publishing through Experiential Learning & High Impact Practices

OSU Libraries Publishing began offering internships as one way to firmly link the program to the library and university teaching mission. Along the way, questions about implementation surfaced. We will consider what best practices are emerging and examine current internship models within library publishing, digital scholarship centers, and academic libraries more broadly. We will also explore what counts as a successful internship (and from whose perspective) and look at some effective ways to evaluate and assess students’ experiences. By focusing on student impact, we aim to broaden the discussion around creating a successful library publishing program. Join us to discuss how library publishing programs can create intentional, meaningful internships

Amplifying Student Voices in Library Publishing through Experiential Learning

George Kuh’s 2008 report High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter, demonstrated the link between high impact practices, experiential learning and student success. Since then, libraries, as part of their parent institutions, have joined the discussion on ways to offer experiential learning opportunities. One long-standing practice is through student internships. Library publishing programs have readily adopted student interns to advance their work; however, such internships are often ad hoc, focusing less on student learning outcomes and more on production and project completion. With Kuh’s call to foreground high impact practices and experiential learning to advance student success, it is worthwhile to revisit library publishing internships and develop programmatic models. OSU Libraries Publishing began offering internships as one way to firmly link the program to the library and university teaching mission. Along the way, questions about implementation surfaced. We will consider what best practices are emerging and examine current internship models within library publishing, digital scholarship centers, and academic libraries more broadly. We will also explore what counts as a successful internship (and from whose perspective) and look at some effective ways to evaluate and assess students’ experiences. By focusing on student impact, we aim to broaden the discussion around creating a successful library publishing program. Join us to discuss how library publishing programs can create intentional, meaningful internships. Kuh, George D. Excerpt from High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter. Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2008. O’Neill, Nancy. Internships as a high-impact practice: Some reflections on quality. Peer Review 12.4 (2010): 4-8. https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/internships-high-impact-practice-some-reflections-quality York, Amy, Christy Groves, and William Black. Enriching the academic experience: The library and experiential learning. Collaborative Librarianship 2.4 (2010): 193-203. http://collaborativelibrarianship.org/index.php/jocl/article/viewArticle/9

Partnering to Resurface At-Risk Works of the Small, Independent, Feminist Press

In this presentation we share how and why OSU Libraries and Calyx Press, Inc. are partnering to digitize so called at risk works. An international non-profit feminist press, Calyx brought many now-prominent authors to international attention, including the poet Sharon Olds and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska. Supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, our partnership aims to preserve twenty-plus out of print Calyx titles and bring them into wider circulation as ebooks with a Creative Commons license. We share how a comparatively well-resourced public institution serves to amplify an important community non-profit by preserving its rich contributions to feminism and women’s movements over three decades. Our project aligns with similar efforts such as the digitization of the feminist magazine Spare Rib (1972-1993) by the British Library and JISC (a non-profit supporting digital technologies in research and education). Digitization of feminist publications has the potential to attract new and returning generations of readers and scholars interested in 20th- and 21st-century feminist writing. Ideally our digital collection will find new audiences and re-invigorate our long standing audience. Throughout, we have tussled with problematic questions of ownership, valuing the labor of creative workers, and digital rights. By sharing our experience, we align with our feminist foresisters who were “contributing to the movement through the very act of producing a magazine” (Forster, 2016, p. 28) and aim to contribute to today’s digital feminist movement

Amplifying Student Voices in Library Publishing through Experiential Learning [Presentation]

Video recording of a presentation from the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. This presentation discusses experiential learning opportunities through student internships with Oregon State University Libraries Publishing

Scaling up with Scalar: Strengthening Partnerships

The rise of digital scholarship within the humanities and social sciences presents new opportunities for stronger partnerships between librarians, scholars, students, and other campus units. While libraries and librarians can benefit digital scholarship projects throughout their lifecycle, researchers often seek library expertise when working with publishing platforms. As such, Oregon State University Libraries focuses its services on tools like, Scalar, which appeals to scholars and students for its no-cost, quick-to-learn interface, and support for transmedia storytelling. Though focused on the front-end, we also highlight how digital publishing projects can transform student learning, enhance research projects and deepen collaborations