Instruct (formerly known as InfoLit Modules)

Extend the reach of your library's instruction

Today’s college students arrive on campus without well-honed foundational skills like information literacy and critical thinking. Creating high-quality, standards-driven instructional materials to cultivate these skills requires extensive time, staff, and technical expertise. Instruct offers a solution to this growing problem, providing tools for libraries to conduct formalized ACRL and AAC&U-aligned instruction, both in-person and online.

 How can Instruct help you and your library?

• Teach students essential foundational skills that will help them throughout their academic and professional careers.
• Maintain accreditation requirements around information literacy standards.
• Simplify collaboration with faculty with in-demand instructional content that is easy to embed in course pages and LibGuides. View some of our supporting faculty engagement resources to see how your collaboration can be enhanced.
• Align faculty to high-impact practices with a faculty-focused module covering topics like “How to Design Research Assignments”.
• Devote more time to hands-on instruction by using multimedia to “flip the class”.
• Assess student progress with the Credo Insights analytics platform.

Librarians are using Instruct to teach crucial information literacy and critical thinking skills students need to thrive in their academic careers and beyond.

View

Jumpstart library instruction with this robust collection of high-quality, standards-aligned videos

View gives libraries a head start on instruction programming with a suite of ready-made videos to help students learn essential information literacy, communication, quantitative literacy, and critical thinking skills

View will help your library: 

• Build collaboration with faculty and expose the value of the library
• Save time and resources, creating engaging instructional materials
• Teach students in a variety of settings, in-class or online at any time of day

View features 60+ concise, informative videos to help your students grow as learners, researchers, and thinkers.

View opens up new possibilities for your library instruction program:

• Flip classes, assigning videos on foundational concepts as homework so that you can fill one-shots and/or class time with interactive, hands-on activities
• Establish fruitful partnerships with faculty as you expand your IL program
• Support students who struggle with the material, allowing them to watch videos as many times as they need
• Extend the reach of your information literacy and critical thinking instruction, disseminating the videos through your LMS, websites, and LibGuides