Online Courses
ACRL's live webcasts and multi-week online courses are designed to accommodate your schedule and budget. ACRL online learning helps fund advocacy, research, and continuing education programs for the academic library community worldwide.
January 2026
Exploring AI with Critical Information Literacy - January 12- February 6, 2026
The rapid development of AI raises critical questions for academic librarians. This course will equip you to address concerns around misinformation, bias, and the impact of AI on scholarship and research. Examine and unpack AI through the lens of critical information literacy and explore the ways AI is rooted in and is an expression of our social, political, and cultural systems and power structures. With this critical lens, examine how librarians can uncover, navigate, and respond to many of the challenges posed by AI. How can we, as librarians, leverage our expertise and contribute to conversations and efforts around things like ethical AI movements? How can librarians empower our communities to ask questions and engage with AI and technology more critically?
March 2026
Algorithmic Literacy in Libraries - March 2-26, 2026
From AI and misinformation to privacy issues to filter bubbles and more, today’s information landscape presents librarians with complex challenges. This online course introduces algorithmic literacy as a lens for understanding and teaching within this environment. Explore how algorithms shape search results, social media, marketing, and artificial intelligence, and how these forces intersect with information, media, news, and AI literacies. Learn to define and connect algorithmic literacy, evaluate emerging trends, apply algorithmic literacy in library instruction, and develop strategies for fostering critically informed approaches in your teaching.
Creating Your Librarian Teaching Portfolio - March 30-April 24, 2026
A teaching portfolio comprises a variety of documents that are a record of pedagogical experiences, backed by evidence of teaching, assessment, and improvement. An academic librarian’s portfolio is very different from a teacher’s: Librarians may not have student evaluation forms, syllabi, or peer observations of teaching. Academic librarians need to craft a portfolio based on the pedagogical experiences found in the profession, written for an audience who may not be librarians. Throughout this interactive cohort experience, with synchronous and asynchronous elements, participants will be introduced to the concept and construction of a librarian teaching portfolio. The cohort will provide context and background for the teaching portfolio, offer writing prompts to encourage reflection on how librarianship can be translated into pedagogical terms, and concludes with writing and reviewing your portfolio.
