Prototype Teaching Methods, Tools and Materials

Abstract

This report presents Result 3 of Work Package 2 of the Erasmus+ project “Gender Diversity in Information Science (GEDIS)”. It documents a coherent set of prototype teaching packages built around multilingual Open Educational Resources (OER) that address gender-related gaps identified in information science curricula across partner institutions. The prototypes were co-created with students and staff during the first GEDIS Summer School and related training activities, and are designed to support the integration of gender perspectives into teaching and learning in Library and Information Science (LIS) and adjacent fields. The teaching packages cover themes such as women in science and engineering in the EU, algorithmic bias and AI, open data and transparency, user experience and human–computer interaction, hate speech and mis/disinformation, gaming cultures, and the use of generative AI in education. Each package includes a thematic overview, learning outcomes, suggested activities, assessment ideas, and links to the corresponding OER in up to eight languages, making the materials adaptable to diverse institutional and linguistic contexts. The resources are intended for LIS educators, academic librarians, gender studies lecturers and trainers in digital literacy, and are ready to be piloted in formal courses, workshops and outreach activities. They will be further refined in future GEDIS actions (including the Summer School in Opava and professional development activities with librarians) and will form the basis of the students’, professors’ and librarians’ toolkits to be developed under WP6.