ABSTRACT
This chapter describes research conducted over a five-year period in a single library on that library’s efforts to design opportunities to support connected learning. Connected learning is a design framework emphasizing programming that is interest powered, production centered, peer supported, openly networked, oriented to shared purposes among learners, and meaningfully related to advancing personal goals in relation to careers, academics, or personal pursuits (Ito et al., 2013; Ito, Salen, Sefton-Green, in preparation). The research activities we have described here have been organized as a research–practice partnership between university researchers and librarians, involving multiple phases of mutually developed design and implementation. Here, we describe those different phases and what we have learned from each about how library programs and spaces can be organized to support connected learning.
