The New Literacies Alliance is a dynamic curricular project led by librarians from multiple institutions across the United States. Our purpose is to address the new literacies needed for academic success and lifelong learning. In our lessons, students master skills at their own pace using our cutting-edge online learning platform. Since our lessons are free Open Education Resources, you ...continue reading "Welcome to the <span class="search-everything-highlight-color" style="background-color:orange">New</span> <span class="search-everything-highlight-color" style="background-color:orange">Literacies</span> Alliance"
Volunteer Opportunities Many people contribute many talents to the lessons produced by New Literacies Alliance. If you have talents to share and would like to be involved in upcoming development efforts, please contact one of our Project Leaders. The time commitment for volunteers is approximately 20 hours per semester. Content Creators Contribute to the design ...continue reading "Join"
Defining Ideas The NLA was imagined as an interdisciplinary leveling platform for information literacy instruction, ensuring all students have been introduced to basic information literacy concepts before they engage with a librarian during an instruction session. These are the principles that drove the design of the project. Technological Advantages Technology, vendor, and institution-neutral ADA and ...continue reading "Project History"
Strategic Selection of Lessons Faculty and librarians have employed lessons in flipped-classroom style or as supplements to assignments in semester-long courses. Depending on your course objectives, assignments, and perceived student needs, you might choose to focus on particular skill areas. Below are some popular skill development areas and the lesson sequences used. Developing and exploring ...continue reading "Popular Sequences"
Free to Use Provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA), you are free to use the lessons either un-scored or scored. Lessons reside on cloud servers and can integrate with learning management systems or can be linked from any web page. Request Links There are currently two types of links for each lesson. ...continue reading "Get <span class="search-everything-highlight-color" style="background-color:orange">Lesson</span> Links"
Steering Committee Matt Upson, MLS Co-chair Associate Dean for Research and Learning Services Oklahoma State University Libraries Melissa Mallon, MLIS Co-chair Associate University Librarian for Teaching and Learning Vanderbilt University Melia Fritch, MLS, MA, PhD Incoming Chair Academic Services Librarian, Lead, Learning Experience and Design Kansas State University Libraries Joelle Pitts, MLS Member At Large ...continue reading "About Us"
Teaching with the Lessons Students connect to information literacy concepts best when they can relate them to an assignment or project. Therefore, as with all library instruction, we suggest that students complete the lessons after the associated research project has been explained, but before the project is due. When possible, we recommend that course faculty ...continue reading "Using the <span class="search-everything-highlight-color" style="background-color:orange">Lessons</span>"
Lessons - Newest First Below, you can peruse all current NLA lessons. Each lesson takes an average of 8-15 minutes for students to complete. If you would like to use any of these free lessons, please visit the Get Lesson Links page for information on how to receive lesson links. Save Save
Resources As a librarian, you are an information literacy ambassador to your school. In order to facilitate communication regarding NLA with your faculty, department heads, and other stakeholders, we have provided two resources below that you are free to use at your convenience. NLA Instructor Primer Lessons developed by NLA challenge students to critically engage ...continue reading "<span class="search-everything-highlight-color" style="background-color:orange"><span class="search-everything-highlight-color" style="background-color:orange">For</span></span> Librarians"
Meetings Biannually, NLA project leads and contributing staff gather in-person and online to discuss goals and potential lessons for the next phase of the project. Meetings include the sharing of project goals for the semester; status reports on in-progress lessons, recently completed lessons, and special projects; and breakout sessions where members discuss the lessons most ...continue reading "Process"
