Creating an online information literacy course for concurrent enrollment students: A collaboration with a state-sponsored online school

ABSTRACT

This article discusses a collaborative project to create an online one-credit library research course for high school students in a dual credit program. The project included a team of reference and instruction librarians at a midsize public university, the university's concurrent enrollment program, and an online state-sponsored school that provided courses to high school students. Current literature related to the information literacy knowledge gap, outreach to secondary schools, dual credit or concurrent enrollment programs, and for-credit online information literacy courses is reviewed. The process of creating the course will be discussed along with the benefits and challenges of the project.

KEYWORDS:

• Academic libraries
• collaboration
• concurrent enrollment
• curriculum development
• high school
• information literacy