The Learning Portal

Project Overview

The Research Portal project was a collaboration between Ontario college libraries with a goal of creating an open educational support resource (OER) for students in the college system. I co-chaired content development of the Research Hub.

The Research Hub provides an introduction to information literacy developing students’ skills specific to research, evaluation, citing and academic honesty. Information is presented in easily accessible chunks.

As part of this project, I also developed content to support the Privacy and Security pages, part of the Digital Citizenship Hub.

Authoring Platform: LibGuides

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Additional Project Resources

Library Working Group - presentation discussing the collaborative development process
Instructional Design Primer - document highlighting techniques that support modular content development
Digital Citizenship Toolkit: Understanding Digital Citizenship - repurposed content from the Privacy and Security lessons in a Chapter co-written with library colleagues. Available for download at Ryerson University.

Project Images

Four sections of the Research Hub focus on the foundations of information literacy. How to Research, How to Cite, Copyright and Academic Integrity.

Five lessons of the How to Research section: Choose a Topic, Know Your Resources, Search Library Resources, Search the Web, Evaluate Your Resources. Each lesson uses modular, micro-learning type content to introduce topics.

Samples of the content included in the Privacy lesson on the Digital Citizenship hub. Information about Terms of Use, cloud storage, cookies and sexting.

Content in the Security lesson featuring various types of Security Threats: spam, phishing, malware, hacking, DOS and DDoS attacks.

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