UCLA Library

Presenter from the UCLA Library Digital Library Program (DLP) will share examples from his collaboration with a faculty member in a pilot to increase and deepen student engagement with holdings from the UCLA Library’s Digital Collections in curricular contexts, leveraging the concurrent adoption by the University of the new learning management system (LMS), Canvas/BruinLearn. Digital collections overseen by the DLP are presented predominantly in the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework), which enables reliable vertical integration of linked media content flows for students’ accessing, viewing, processing, and presenting high quality resources sustainably without file downloads, or uploads. Collaborating with administrators and staff from technical and instructional support units outside of the library, particularly the Canvas Transformation instructional design team, the DLP has designed, developed, and piloted a 3-unit modular template in the LMS to facilitate the use of digital collections to support undergraduate course curricula. The three units in the template direct students through three learning phases in their course, related to materials, methods, and products, respectively. This structure ensures adequate instructional attention to critical and proficiency-based learning goals, including information literacy, comparative analysis and annotation, and multimedia composition for public audiences. Pre-built modular units with integrated IIIF tools and learning activities are adapted in consultation with faculty to fit with course content, and presented in online and hybrid “flipped” instruction, making introductory through advanced digital project work scalable and manageable without necessitating substantial commitment of in-class instructional time.