Survey of U.S. and Canadian librarians on open pedagogy

With the growth of open pedagogy has come the growth of library support for open pedagogy. Likewise, more and more case studies are demonstrating how librarians use open pedagogy to support student growth in information literacy, specifically the Association of College & Research Libraries’ Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education. However, little has been done to look at the broader picture of how librarians are supporting open pedagogy and how ready they feel to do so, especially in connecting open pedagogy to information literacy. This data comes from a survey of librarians in the United States and Canada who work in information literacy instruction and/or open education about their practice in open pedagogy., The project used a survey, created in Qualtrics, to help answer the research questions. The survey was designed with four broad sections. The first focused on gathering background information about the participants and their institution, as well as their comfort level with open pedagogy, support provided at their institutions for open education, and then finally whether they have supported open pedagogy in a higher education course. Those who answered negatively to supporting open pedagogy were then directed to a second section available only to them about their interest in eventually supporting open pedagogy. Those who answered they had supported open pedagogy were directed to a third section that asked them about their experience with open pedagogy. Finally, all participants were directed to the fourth section, which asked them about barriers and needs to help support open pedagogy.
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This dataset reflects a survey of U.S. and Canadian academic librarians conducted about their experience with supporting open pedagogy in the classroom as well as their thoughts on such support. Data was collected from 2023_06_28 to 2023_08_09.

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset includes one file, LISOpenPedSurvey_PublicData.csv, that includes the survey results. This includes 25 initial variables and 145 cases/rows. Survey results from people who began but did not finish the survey have been removed. A number of variables were also deleted to help tidy data or to protect against potentially identifying any of the respondents (in this case, just open-text responses were deleted). Blank cells are represented by NA. Cells could be blank for two reasons. First, no questions were required and therefore a respondent could opt...