Flipping Out Over Online Library Instruction: A Case Study in Faculty-Librarian Collaboration

ABSTRACT

This case study both shines a light on the flipped classroom paradigm and exemplifies successful faculty-librarian collaboration. The co-authors leveraged an existing collegial relationship into a productive partnership to create a multi-faceted flipped classroom module. The module, developed over the course of three and a half years, was designed to address reported student difficulty using the online library for graduate research. The case study also examines the special needs of online learners and adult/non-traditional students in graduate programs, and addresses research support for the various types of instructional materials described.

KEYWORDS:

• Faculty-librarian collaboration
• flipped classroom
• information literacy
• learning objects
• video tutorials
• active learning
• instructional technology and design