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Curriculum Builder A Thoughtful Approach to Creating and Managing Course Reading Lists
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Curriculum Builder
A Thoughtful Approach to Creating and Managing Course Reading Lists
Silos Upon Silos
• Discovery services help bring together the data in a variety of information silos (individual databases)
• However, the library itself can seem to be a silo on campus, separate from where the majority of teaching and learning happens
Classrooms
Library
Silos Upon Silos
• There is a digital equivalent.
Library
Classrooms
Where the Teaching and Learning Happens
• In the chat, briefly describe the steps an instructor would have to take to assign a reading out of the library’s collection to her students.
When assigning readings,instructors will
copy links that expire, break, or they encounter copyright issues
hosting PDF documents
…not to mention issues withusage statistics.
Goals of Curriculum Builder
• Make is easy to use library materials appropriately in online course spaces– No more permalinking!– No more copyright issues!
• Increase visibility of library resource in the digital classroom– Better statistics, too!
Live Demonstration
• Current Curriculum Builder Features– Demo in Canvas
• Coming end of Spring 2015– Demo in Moodle
How to Get It
• Self Hosted– Code for Curriculum Builder posted to EDS Wiki– Requires someone who can and will manage a PHP/MySQL
application– Requires server space with appropriate configuration (*AMP
stack)– Little to No Technical Support
• Perfect for libraries already doing this type of thing
How to Get It
• In EBSCO’s Cloud– We provide you with a Welcome Letter that gives
your LMS administrator the details she needs– We provide an up-time guarantee, HTTPS support,
backup of reading lists– Full technical support
• Contact your local sales representative, or email us at [email protected]
