Business

Submitted by Lauren deLaubell on January 17th, 2025

Short Description:

The most powerful wizards have gathered to battle one another. Only one will win. Wizards must use reliable sources to research incantations for the battle, or their spells will fizzle. Truly wise wizards must learn to tell the difference.

Research Wizards is an information literacy card game designed to teach students ages 12+ about source evaluation. Research Wizards corresponds to the Frame Authority Is Constructed and Contextual, from the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Players will discuss and challenge the relative value of various sources, each representing a different suit in the game. The game includes four major actions/phases: Parley, when players discuss and decide for themselves the relative value of each suit; Battle, which includes competition, player actions, and Challenges; Vengeance, for eliminated players to impact and speed up the remainder of the game; and Victory.

The Research Wizards website contains free game files, player directions, and printing tips for librarians and teachers who wish to use the game in their classrooms. The website includes an editable, Microsoft Publisher version of the game. Noncommercial use of the game is free for educational purposes with attribution to the author. Librarians and teachers are encouraged to adapt the game as needed for their subject areas, student needs, and as the sources in the game evolve over time. Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.

Players: 3-5 per deck

Play Time: 20-30 minutes, plus discussion

Research Wizards by Lauren deLaubell is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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Card deckdisplayed 1550 times	2.51 MB

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Research Wizards

Learning Outcomes:

- Wizards will define a variety of traditional and emerging information formats.
- Wizards will compare a variety of information formats and discuss their relative reliability.
- Wizards will explore the variation in quality found within specific categories of information (e.g., the wildcard of using resources located by or generated with artificial intelligence).

Information Literacy concepts:

Individual or Group:

Group

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Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips:

It is recommended to review directions out loud with students, with pauses for students to sort their decks and conduct the Parley phase of play. To contextualize and reinforce learning, it is recommended to conclude the game with discussion questions; sample questions are provided at the bottom of the player directions file but may be adjusted as needed.

Suggested Citation:

deLaubell, Lauren. "Research Wizards." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2025. https://projectcora.org/assignment/research-wizards.

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Submitted by Sarah Hartman-Caverly on August 4th, 2023

Short Description:

This workshop engages participants in exploring corporate data collection, personal profiling, deceptive design, and data brokerage practices. Workshop content is contextualized with the theoretical frameworks of panoptic sort (Gandy), surveillance capitalism (Zuboff), and the four regulators (Lessig) and presented through a privacy and business ethics lens. Participants will learn how companies make money from data collection practices; explore how interface design can influence our choices and behaviors; and discuss business ethics regarding privacy and big data.
The workshop is designed for 75-minute class sessions, but can be compressed into 60-minute sessions.
Includes workshop guide, presentation slides, learning activities, and assessment instrument.

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DarkPatternsWorkshopLessonPlan_HartmanCaverly_CCBYNCSA.pdfdisplayed 1015 times	84.44 KB

Relevant links:

[workshop guide] Dark Patterns: Surveillance Capitalism and Business Ethics [slides] Dark Patterns: Surveillance Capitalism and Business Ethics

Learning Outcomes:

Learn how companies make money from data collection practices
Explore how interface design can influence our choices and behaviors
Discuss business ethics regarding privacy and big data.

Discipline:

Business Library and Information Science

Individual or Group:

Group

Ability Level:

Undergraduate / Bachelors

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.):

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Suggested Citation:

Hartman-Caverly, Sarah. "Dark Patterns: Surveillance Capitalism and Business Ethics." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2023. https://projectcora.org/assignment/dark-patterns-surveillance-capitalism-and-business-ethics.

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Teaching Resource

BLExIM (Business Librarians Exchanging Instructional Materials)

BLExIM is an informal co-op of business librarians collegially sharing their personal Instructional Materials (IM) for everyone’s benefit. The three Organizers are all academic business librarians across the U.S.

Submitted by Pascal Martinolli on November 8th, 2019

Short Description:

An open access MOOC in French to bonify the information literacy skills of university students (with Moodle).

Relevant links:

Open subscription About the MOOC

Learning Outcomes:

Students will know how to identify references in a bibliography, how to define their research subjects (synonyms & thesaurus), how to combine their keywords, which service to use (catalog, database, Google,...), how to assess the credibility of their sources, how to cite and respect copyrights, how to produce a bibliography with Zotero, how to adopt good practices for publishing (publishing process, open access, predators), how to set up alerts on topics, and what are bibliometry and literature review.

Information Literacy concepts:

Individual or Group:

Individual

Ability Level:

Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

Integrated completely or partially into undergraduate and graduate courses. Also used as support to upgrade a specific information literacy skill of a student after a reference interview.

Assessment or Criteria for Success

Assessment Short Description:

Each module is assessed by a 10 questions test.

Suggested Citation:

Martinolli, Pascal. "MOOC BoniCI ." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2019. https://projectcora.org/assignment/mooc-bonici.

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Submitted by Tom Rankin on April 24th, 2019

Short Description:

Student select a company and complete very simple analysis of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statements

Relevant links:

Assignment video playlist of 3 videos

Learning Outcomes:

Describe very simplistic elements of an income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement.

Discipline:

Business

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Ability Level:

Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

Introductory Business class: used as a case study assignment or a project assignment.

Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.):

Financial Statement Assignment

In this assignment you will analyze a company of your choice (cannot choose Sears, Apple, McDonalds, Chipotle or Kroger since those were detailed in the videos) and provide specific focus on the 3 key financial statements. You must analyze the company’s income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement. Please submit a paper (Word document) of at least 100 words that addresses the following questions. As a source you can use Yahoo finance (opens in a new window) or any other financial source.

What company did you choose?
Income Statement
What is the trend in revenue for your company?
How satisfied are you with the company growth in lack of revenue growth?
Please provide data of the last 3 years of the company’s revenue level.
Does your company make a profit?
Please provide data of the last 3 years of the company’s net profit level.
What is the Return on Sales for your company, and comment on the level of profitability for your company.
Balance Sheet
Provide data on the most current year’s total assets, total liabilities, and stockholder’s equity.
What percent of your company is owned by creditors?
In what shape is your company to paying its current bills?
Cash Flow Statement
Explain the differences between cash from operations, cash from investments and cash from financing.
Provide data on the current year’s cash flow broken down by cash from operations, cash from investments and cash from financing and the total net cash flow.
Provide a statement on the overall financial health of the company you choose, and provide support for your answer.

The rubric for this assignment and a sample report are attached for this assignment link.

Assessment or Criteria for Success

(e.g. rubric, guidelines, exemplary sample paper, etc.):

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Sample Reportdisplayed 1063 times	16 KB
Rubricdisplayed 1378 times	2.57 KB

Suggested Citation:

Rankin, Tom. "Yahoo Simple Financial Analysis ." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2019. https://projectcora.org/assignment/yahoo-simple-financial-analysis.

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Submitted by Katrina Stierholz on December 12th, 2018

Short Description:

Students learn about innovation, the distribution of innovation across the country, and what can be patented. Working in groups, they examine patents and consider the changes the patents brought. They then use a mapping program and interpret data from that map to consider how local resources promote innovation.

Attachments:

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Lesson plan (pdf)displayed 1109 times	153.12 KB

Relevant links:

GeoFRED: a tool for mapping economic data

Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to • define innovation, • define patents as protection of intellectual property, • explain how patents promote entrepreneurship, • interpret a map of patents assignments by county, and • explain the relationship between education, research institutions, and the frequency of patents and innovation.

Discipline:

Business Economics Urban Studies

Information Literacy concepts:

Information Has Value (Frame 3)

Ability Level:

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Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.):

Florida, Richard. “The Geography of Innovation.” Citylab blog post, September 2017; https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/08/the-geography-of-innovation/530349/

Assessment or Criteria for Success

Assessment Short Description:

Assessment is in lesson plan.

Collaborators:

Diego Mendez-Carbajo

Charissa Jefferson

Suggested Citation:

Stierholz, Katrina. "Demonstrating the Distribution of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Using Patent Data and a Mapping Tool: GeoFRED® Marks the Spot." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2018. https://projectcora.org/assignment/demonstrating-distribution-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-using-patent-data-and-mapping.

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Submitted by Nataly Blas on November 28th, 2018

Short Description:

The Business Task Cards is a 1-hour team-based activity. The activity was created for a business management course that needed to complete a business opportunity project. The activity requires students to complete four tasks: 1) Find company information, 2) Find a company's income statement, 3) Find articles on a company's management strategy, and 4) Find current industry trends that will impact the company. A print and online version of the activity is provided.

Attachments:

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Business Task Cards Activity.pdfdisplayed 1138 times	402.96 KB
Template for the print task cards.displayed 1037 times	44.74 KB

Learning Outcomes:

LO #1: Students will match information needs to business search tools in order to locate relevant company information. LO #2: Students will recognize the information type and evaluate how it meets their information need.

Discipline:

Business

Information Literacy concepts:

Individual or Group:

Ability Level:

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business

Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

This activity was used for an upper-division business management course.

Assessment or Criteria for Success

Assessment Short Description:

Print version - collect task cards at the end of the course for assessment purposes. Online version - student submissions are collected via Google Forms.

Suggested Citation:

Blas, Nataly. "Business Task Cards Activity." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2018. https://projectcora.org/assignment/business-task-cards-activity.

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Submitted by Tom Rankin on November 20th, 2018

Short Description:

The purpose of this Business Benchmark assignment is to professionally present (3-5 minutes) a new idea to improve and aspect of the college. This presentation has no mandated materials, students are however expected to provide an excellent, well explained, supported and presented new idea. Your goal is to inspire your audience to take a specific action or position.

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BUS110 Benchmark.docxdisplayed 735 times	26.2 KB

Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstrate applied benchmarking in a business setting.
• Demonstrate presentation skills.

Discipline:

Business

Individual or Group:

Ability Level:

Undergraduate / Bachelors

Tags:

OER

Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

Used in one section of BUS-110 during 2018SP.

Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, scaffolding applications, supplemental modules, further readings, etc.):

Entire BB site rich with resources is available upon request.

Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips:

Much time an effort on the part of faculty, however it provides a rich learning experience.

Suggested Citation:

Rankin, Tom. "Student Applied Benchmark for Introduction to Business." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2018. https://projectcora.org/assignment/student-applied-benchmark-introduction-business.

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Submitted by Tom Rankin on November 17th, 2018

Short Description:

This project has four Business case elements. Each element is related to one of the student course outcomes. Each case will require students to complete the following:
Read all elements of each case, including exhibits.
Write a one page summary for each case answering the questions in each case, for a total of a 4 page report.
The report should be submitted as one consolidated report addressing all four cases below.

Attachments:

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Business Form Casedisplayed 1117 times	304.22 KB

Relevant links:

Small Business Admin SBA Glossary: Vocabulary Ethics Case Management Principles Case

Learning Outcomes:

Course Student Outcomes:
1. Identify various forms of business organizations.
2. Define business vocabulary.
3. Describe the basics of business ethics.
4. Explain basic management principles.

Discipline:

Business

Information Literacy concepts:

Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4)

Individual or Group:

Ability Level:

Undergraduate / Bachelors

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

Introduction to Business Class (new for Spring 2019). Each case aligns to one of our four course learning objectives. The cases ideally would be staged during the course to align to when that learning objective was covered. Each case requires a one page summary which the instructor can have 4 individual submissions or combine into one 4 page report towards the end of the semester.

Assessment or Criteria for Success

(e.g. rubric, guidelines, exemplary sample paper, etc.):

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BUS 110 Spring 2019 Default Project Rubric_excel_.pdfdisplayed 694 times	412.29 KB

Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips:

Since this is new for 2019SP, we are still learning the pitfalls.

Suggested Citation:

Rankin, Tom. "Four Cases aligned to Course Student Outcomes." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2018. https://projectcora.org/assignment/four-cases-aligned-course-student-outcomes.

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Submitted by Tom Rankin on November 17th, 2018

Short Description:

Ready to be an entrepreneur? Your final project is to create a business/product and sell it to your classmates, Shark Tank style! You will complete this assignment individually OR with a partner and your classmates will play the role of the Sharks!
Your company can offer a physical product or a service, but it should not just be a copy of something already offered … BE CREATIVE! Think outside of the box …

Attachments:

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SharkTankProject (1).docxdisplayed 5870 times	17.01 KB

Learning Outcomes:

Presentation Skills, Organization Skills,

Discipline:

Business

Individual or Group:

Ability Level:

Undergraduate / Bachelors

Tags:

OER

Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated):

Utilized in Introduction to Business Class in one class in 2018FA.
Students will need to include the following in your project:
Part 1: A typed 1-page summary/outline about your company including:
1. the company’s name and objectives
2. the company’s mission
3. the company’s basic details (company location, senior management’s names and roles, when founded, logo and slogan, etc.)
4. a brief description of the product or service
5. how you came up with the idea for your product/service
6. the top 3 problems your product/service are addressing

Part 2: A 10- slide presentation on your entire project – rubric outline on back of this paper. You can use PowerPoint or Google Slides, but you must submit a copy of the PowerPoint in blackboard (link will be provided in blackboard) by 10:00 am on November 5th.
Students will need to include the following in your project:
Part 1: A typed 1-page summary/outline about your company including:
1. the company’s name and objectives
2. the company’s mission
3. the company’s basic details (company location, senior management’s names and roles, when founded, logo and slogan, etc.)
4. a brief description of the product or service
5. how you came up with the idea for your product/service
6. the top 3 problems your product/service are addressing

Part 2: A 10- slide presentation on your entire project – rubric outline on back of this paper. You can use PowerPoint or Google Slides, but you must submit a copy of the PowerPoint in blackboard (link will be provided in blackboard) due date.

Assessment or Criteria for Success

Assessment Short Description:

PowerPoint Presentation Rubric: 10 points each slide = 100 point project Slide #1: Cover Slide (include your company name OR logo & your name) Slide #2: Company Name and Objectives (remember to use bullet notes) Slide #3: Company Mission Statement (sentence(s) allowed for this slide) Slide #4: Basic Details About Company (company location, senior management’s names and roles, when founded, logo and slogan, etc.) Slide #5: The Marketing Mix: Product, Place, Price, Promotion (use bullet notes) Slide #6: How You Came Up with the Idea for your product/service (use bullet notes) Slide #7: Top 3 problems your product/service are addressing (use bullet notes) Slide #8: A compelling message that states why your product/service is different than competitors (make sure you are specific – give details) Slide #9: Conclusion Slide (quick overview of 4-5 main points of your project) Slide #10: Complete the Sale with a powerful closing sales pitch that answers “Why is this product worth buying?” (this will make or break the Sharks investing in your project) Remember to include pictures and other graphics, not just plain text on slides

Potential Pitfalls and Teaching Tips:

Consumes a lot of class time to prepare.

Suggested Citation:

Rankin, Tom. "Shark Tank ." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2018. https://projectcora.org/assignment/shark-tank.

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