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The MSU Libraries’ Open Educational Resources (OER) Award Program call for applications for the academic year 2022-2023 is now open.
Now in its 4th year, the OER Award Program provides financial incentives and support to instructors interested in adopting, adapting, or creating OER as an alternative to traditional learning materials to advance our goals of affordability, access, equity, and student success. 
You can download the Call for Proposals overview to learn more about the application categories, eligibility, participation requirements, timelines, and criteria for evaluation. 
Application forms are available in the OER LibGuide. The deadline for submission is January 16, 2023. The OER Advisory Committee will meet to review applications, and we will notify successful awardees on February 10, 2023.
Regina Gong, OER & Student Success Librarian, offers a one-on-one project consultation if you have questions about the OER Award program and the application categories. You can send an email to Regina at gongregi@msu.edu to schedule a project consultation. 

The Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology is transforming into a new unit under the Office of the Provost umbrella, within the MSU Libraries: the MSU Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation (Center for TLI).  
In a recent message to the MSU educator community, Provost Woodruff explained that this transition represents a deliberate effort to locate fundamental support for educators at the academic heart of the university, the Main Library. Centrally located, and central to the lives of our faculty and instructional staff, this new role and added portfolio of services will bring together outstanding faculty and academic staff from across campus to advance teaching and learning methodology, technology, and innovation at MSU. 
The Center for TLI will be staffed by a combination of former Hub and current library employees. According to a message from Dean of Libraries and Interim Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning Innovation Joe Salem, the Center for TLI will also be looking for additional staff next year. 
“The team and I know there are already invaluable educator support efforts in place across campus. We intend to collaborate with and help amplify those,” says Salem. “The Center for TLI will use a networked approach, keeping a core team supporting educator efforts centrally while working closely and collaboratively with center affiliates in colleges, departments, and units across campus.” 
As a new initiative, The Center for TLI is still evolving. Salem wants to ensure the process of building out the unit involves stakeholders in the crucial, early phase of development. “As part of our process, a small group of educator development stakeholders are being asked to participate in a kick-off summit this January,” he says. “Together, this team will synchronously contribute to developing ideas for how a networked approach can best complement the existing MSU educator ecosystem and fill gaps in support.” 
Salem adds that in addition to the kick-off summit and follow-up work with educator development stakeholders, his team will be offering additional engagement opportunities for educators themselves in the new year. 
This engagement and the feedback collected will be used to help shape the vision and mission of the unit.  
“There is a remarkable amount of expertise on our campus regarding teaching and learning innovation,” says Salem. “We are extremely excited to have the Provost’s support in aligning the great work so many are already doing, and just as excited to break new ground in this space. We’re bringing together a team of cross-unit educators to plan opportunities for MSU educators to share ideas about making the Center for TLI as supportive and collaborative as it can be.” 
While still under construction, the evolving vision for the Center for TLI has at its core an unalterable value: faculty and staff success. As stated unequivocally in MSU’s recently unveiled strategic plan, faculty and staff are MSU’s biggest investment and most important asset. The Center for TLI will be a place to fortify this crucial strategic pillar. Stakeholders across campus can expect a continued commitment from the Center for TLI to iterate on the colossal professional development strides and technological innovation created as a response to the demands of remote teaching and learning.  

What inspired you to pursue this project?



Our Mac literate students needed high-powered Mac Studio computers to greatly reduce rendering time for 360-degree video and other extremely large visual files. There are a plethora of powerful PC computers but there were no powerful Mac computers available before the Catalyst grant provided these two Mac Studios! We have one Mac Studio in the library's DSL, as many students use it to create videos for the 360-degree theater there and the other is in the Immersive Journalism Lab in ComArtSci Room 357. Both computers are available for all students in the university to use. The grant also supported the creation of a comprehensive tutorial by Alyssa Bradley (both in video and written form) for students, faculty and staff to follow when creating 360-degree video for YouTube and Vimeo, as well as for the 360-degree theater.



Who was involved in the project or made a significant contribution?







Paul Cooper, Alyssa Bradley and myself.












What are some of the successes that you have experienced on this project?



Judy Walgren teaches a 360-degree documentary filmmaking class each Fall, and many of the students benefited greatly from having unfettered access to these high-powered computers which greatly reduced rendering time. Previously, students' computers were crashing or student had to render the videos for sometimes 24 hours which impacted their other classes and ability to meet deadlines.



What are some of the challenges that you have experienced on this project?



Getting the students to use the computers and to follow the tutorial.








 








Describe some of the unexpected outcomes that occurred during this project?







That students used the computers and the tutorial!








 









What are the key lessons that you learned from the project?







Key lessons are listen to student feedback on their needs and the revise accordingly--whether that is course content, equipment, workflow etc...








 









How would you describe the final status of the project?







The computers and tutorial are in full use for all!








 









What are the next steps for this project or research?







To increase the use of the Mac Studios, the library's 360-camera kits, the MetaQuest VR equipment, the Insta360 tutorial and the overall video production for the DSL's 360-degree theater. We also want to spread awareness of the JRN 492 course in immersive journalism held every Fall semester during which students make non-fiction 360-degree films for the DSL's 360-degree theater.








 









Would you like to include links to references, resources, published works, etc.?




360-degree video tutorial
MSU Insta360 Camera Video and Editing





 

If you're looking for ways to engage your students, consider partnering with a librarian to design an assignment!
 
These cards talk about ways to incorporate library sources in ways you may not have considered before, particularly by asking them critically engage with and evaluate information.
 
One assignment is designed to help students start with one source as a way to locate other sources of interest, and to ask questions about a source's place within the broader information context. 
 
The other assignment is designed to help more advanced students work with sources to create a critical digital edition, which will require them to curate content and practice their close reading skills.

The MSU Libraries are here for you during these uncertain times.
Latest Library News

The MSU Libraries COVID-19 response page provides the latest information about library services currently available.

Using the Library from a Distance

The Online and Distance Learning page outlines resources for those not able to come to campus, or who want to continue using the library from a distance.
COVID-19 videos outline how to use library services. Videos are current as of Spring 2020, and will be updated to reflect service changes for Fall 2020.
Ask a Librarian - get in contact with a Reference Librarian, or the subject specialist for your college or department.

Fact-Checking and Research

Guide to health research on COVID-19
Resources and video about fact-checking COVID-19 news
Consumer health resources about COVID-19

The Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation aims to support educators across MSU's ecosystem with a "library" of student-facing surveys for collecting formative feedback, checking in with learners, and setting the tone for your learning experience. Google Forms can be used to design anonymous surveys, providing long-form or multiple-choice questions, basic Likert-scale answer keys, and basic statistical data. CTLI Student Feedback (google drive folder) offers pre-made forms to reduce barriers to educator use. Additional information about putting these forms into practice can be found on iteach.msu.edu. Existing forms for duplication currently include:

mid-semester feedback
post-crisis check-in 
pre-semester technology and access
group agreements (for in-class group work)*
pre-semester accessibility needs/preferences
weekly student check-ins (example 1 and 2)

*not anonymous  
CTLI’s survey templates require some edits and modification.
Users of the Google Form are asked to Copy the Google Form to their own Google Drive (while logged in with their MSU credentials) so that the form and collected data is owned by the user. 
Instructions for copying a Google Form from the "survey library":

Right click on the CTLI Google Form you’d like to send to your students. Click Make a Copy.
Open your copy of the Google Form and review the instructions embedded in the Google Form itself. Please review the survey headers and descriptions in their entirety. The Google survey templates are built in a way that the instructor can quickly and easily update the information to individualize it to their course.
When you have completed your edits, click the Send button in the right-hand corner of the Google Form. To maintain anonymity, please ensure that the “Automatically collect respondent's Michigan State University email address” checkbox is unchecked.

For the Group Contract Form, anonymity is unnecessary. 


Select the link or the HTML embed link as options to send your survey. Please note that sending the survey via email will deanonymize the survey. 


Please direct questions on process or access to Makena Neal. 
Photo by Philip Strong on Unsplash

Many course readings are already provided at MSU as digital content or in books that students have purchased. If you have any materials that are only available as physical hard copies and which students do not already own, please contact the library in order to develop a digital strategy. 
 
There is a central page for services for online and off campus students and faculty. Services include mailing library books directly to you or your students, troubleshooting Libraries e-resources and databases, and help creating stable links to those resources.   
 
Subject specialist librarians are happy to help find library resources for your classes and to get those materials linked in D2L for your students. One of the easiest ways to provide this assistance is for you to make your subject specialist librarian an editor in your course. To find your subject librarian, please see our list at https://lib.msu.edu/contact/subjectlibrarian. Librarians are also happy to discuss any other ways that they can support your teaching and learning needs. 
 
Their Course Materials program can help if you have materials that need to be transitioned from print to digital. Please use the form at https://forms.gle/7GxNYeKsqTNxNRVR8 to facilitate the scanning of current materials on print reserves.
 
Interlibrary loan access will continue to be provided. The Library will provide desktop delivery and mail materials to you if needed, plus they have reference services available for students and faculty via chat, 24/7: https://lib.msu.edu/contact/askalib/. 
 
For more detailed information on the library please visit https://lib.msu.edu/covid19message/. As of March 16, all libraries in the State of Michigan have been closed, including MSU's. Materials in most of our locations can be paged by using the "Get It Now" button in the catalog. We will mail materials that can be paged to faculty, staff and students as needed. Many virtual services and resources remain available.
 
We encourage you to visit the MSU Libraries website and visit their Online and Distance Learning Resource page.

Entrepreneurs improve how their product matches customer needs by researching their industries with library resources. This short article describes teaching the Value Proposition Canvas with the MSU library resource IBISWorld to quickly improve the product-market fit of their business concepts.Teaching Product-Market Fit with Library Resources: https://doi.org/10.17613/x62d-gy32