LibGuides: Library Partner Updates: Current Issue

November 2024

College-Level Research: A Microcredential for Beginners

Microcredential freely available to any students, staff, or faculty

Are you teaching an intro course with a research assignment and find that your students need support? First- and second-year students completing their first research project often feel lost, but you don't always have the time in your course schedule to invite a librarian to your class. Now, there's a solution.

Our fully online 90-minute asynchronous microcredential will fill in the gaps and ensure students are equipped with crucial beginner skills, such as: choosing and/or narrowing a topic; finding appropriate sources; evaluating those sources and synthesizing information; and, citing any information to give credit where it’s due.

Any participant who completes the module and passes the assessment will receive a certificate.

Look out for future announcements about additional levels including Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert.

Please direct any questions to:

Professor Sarah Mollette sarah.mollette@marshall.edu
Professor Kacy Lovelace kacy.lovelace@marshall.edu

This micrcrocredential will be free to all and available in Blackboard via the Credly platform.

To enroll, visit https://marshall.geniussis.com/catalog/course/149/college-level-research
Or visit the Marshall Skills Exchange and search for "College-Level Research."

Copyright Workshop: Pop-up Clinics About Teaching (CATs)

Research & Instruction Services

A Gentle Peer-to-Peer Request

While the Research & Instruction Services team encourages professors to send their students to us for support, due to high demand and limited resources, we prefer that faculty request us for instruction (30-to-1 student-librarian ratio) rather than requiring research appointments (1-to-1 student/librarian ratio), which will also allow faculty librarians to meet their other day-to-day demands.

An alternative to instruction is the College-Level Research Microcredential (see above newsletter item).

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ETD Update: Submission & Review News

Serving on a Spring thesis or dissertation committee?

The ETD review process has undergone a few significant changes in the 2024-25 academic year. Prepare yourself and your students for Spring 2025 ETD submission by reviewing the changes summarized at https://libguides.marshall.edu/etd/24-25updates.