Library Resources for KPU Instructors
Preparing your courses for the spring? The library may have tools and services that can enhance your online courses and teaching. We also have learning resources to integrate into your coursework, on topics such as researching at the library and plagiarism.
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You and your students can learn how to use or share Indigenous information in research with these videosCreated by our Indigenous & Anthropology Subject Liaison Librarian, Rachel Chong, Indigenous Information Literacy is a series of videos that was created to support research with an Indigenous lens. The videos cover topics such as respectful research practices, how to cite Elders & Knowledge Keepers, and how to evaluate Indigenous sources.
The videos are for Indigenous and non-Indigenous instructors alike, their classrooms, and for students who undertake research using Indigenous sources or in Indigenous communities. To view the videos and find a link to a playlist (which you can embed in your Moodle course), visit the Indigenous Information Literacy section of our Indigenous Studies Subject Guide.
Questions? Contact Rachel Chong
As long as it is within Fair Dealing, we can scan PDFs and provide direct or embedding links from items within the library's collection; we can even help you find Open Resources for your courses.
Link.Scan.Open. is designed to help alleviate the absence of our Course Reserve process, which provided short-term loans of designated course material from our collections at our Service Desks. This service is actually superior to Course Reserves, as there is no longer limited copies to share among your students!
Looking for an e-book to use as a textbook? While we try our hardest to provide online access to e-textbooks, there are some barriers that academic libraries face, often from publishers, when trying to provide access to certain e-texts. Please contact Jen Adams, Acquisitions & Collections Assessment Librarian, if you have a question about an ebook you’d like to assign to your course.
The Library's Doing Research: A Student's Guide to Finding and Using the Best Sources has four modules:
Every module should take approximately 20 minutes to complete and consists of written text, video, interactive H5P activities and a short quiz (linked through your Moodle site) that will be graded.
These modules roughly follow the research process, so you can assign one or more of them to your students depending on the class/assignment requirements at any particular point in the course. We have instructions for embedding the modules, or component parts, into Moodle.
This tutorial is a great alternative to our in-person library research sessions, which are not available during COVID. Need other options? Contact your Liaison Librarian.
Academic Integrity is an open resource with readings and interactive components that can be accessed online anytime. The content is designed to help students understand the importance of adhering to academic integrity principles and raise their awareness around plagiarism, citation, quoting and paraphrasing, and KPU assistance in these areas. Instructors can assign this resource to students and integrate it into their own teaching and may choose to ask students to earn an academic integrity recognition badge.
Visit Academic Integrity Moodle Course for course and badge information.
Contact the Liaison Librarian for your discipline. If we don't already have an online instructional component to suit your needs, we can collaborate to find a solution. Your liaison librarian may even be able to arrange an asynchronous or synchronous teaching session.
In this new reality of remote instruction delivery, your students still need access to research and citation style help.
Many students prefer chatting with a librarian through AskAway as they can access help at point-of-need: during their researching or while writing/citing assignments online.
If your students need research or citation help, you can refer them to the Library's Ask Us page (where they can choose to chat, email or text us).
Or you can embed our AskAway chat widget right into your Moodle site.
Check out the Library's guide to Library Resources For Remote Delivery
You'll find a variety of resources and instructions which will help you do things like:
The Library's Open Publishing Suite of services can help you:
Learn more at Library Support for Open Education.