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Reimagining The One-Shot - A Student-Centered Approach For Introducing First-Year Students To The Library, Alissa Link

New England Library Instruction Group

This session explored how a traditional library instruction session was adapted to give students a richer and more interactive learning experience leading to the expansion of a collaboration between an introductory biology class and the library. The session detailed the adaption of an existing lesson plan, creation of an asynchronous scavenger hunt, and addition of a student-centered, hands-on assignment.

To encourage self-driven learning, the library instruction session was redesigned to include hands-on, in-class components and an asynchronous scavenger hunt. Both changes were enthusiastically received by the course faculty.

The end result of the adapted curriculum for the introductory biology course …