10. April 20, 2010 Indicative programme – Core Information Skills Workshops
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12. Inspiration April 20, 2010 Imperial - Olivia Bedford – The Invisible Library University of Leeds – Skills@Library
13. April 20, 2010 Indicative Core Information Skills online course
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April 20, 2010 welcome
April 20, 2010 Learning and teaching objectives: “ encourages students to study independently, taking responsibility for their own learning” “ enables students to acquire the necessary key, cognitive and subject-specific skills and enables students to acquire generic skills”
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April 20, 2010 ISD’s mission is to provide appropriate, efficient, effective and intuitive Information Services in support of the Research, Education, Enterprise and Engagement objectives of the University as outlined in the Corporate Plan 2008 – 12 Leitch report 2006 Higher ambitions from BIS department, 2009, which focused on skills development and employability we have an election in 3 weeks time JISC funded “thriving in the 21st century: learning literacies for the digital age” (2009) Data on literacies (information, digital, media) in HE – review of research, analysis of 15 HEIs and research Evidence: learners can become more critical, evaluative, self aware and self confident But self awareness is weak Active learning via authentic tasks works best CIBER (UCL ) for JISC & BL - briefing paper on “information behaviour of the researcher of the future” (2008) Information seeking behaviours Skimming, horizontal browsing, not spending very long on each page, squirreling but no evidence of actual reading But similar findings when looked at previous generation & use of CD-roms. Not just Google generation? Even more important to address? Team of US academics “how college students seek informaiton in the digital age” Dec 2009 Similar findings – but key thing to me was that tutors have big influence on information literacy behaviours of students. Need to work in partnership
April 20, 2010 One of my first tasks in the role was to undertake an audit of existing information skills provision Interviewed FLs and assessed online The subject specific sessions delivered by the FLs vary across schools and ranged from introductory lecturers to being involved in the design and delivery of modules. There is of course the support provided to individual students, researchers and lecturers delivered at point of need.
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April 20, 2010 Jan 2009 JISC published SMILE project which took the concepts of re-use and re-purpose when developing Library learning materials Efficiency Speed of development Efficacy SCONULs Seven pillars of IL - recognising need, how to address gap, strategies, locate and access, compare and evaluate, organise and apply, synthesise and create. Blooms taxonomy “knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation” Kolbs Experiential learning cycle - concrete experience>reflective observation>formation of abstract conceptions>testing in new situations Honey & Mumfords theorists, activists, pragmatists and reflectors
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April 20, 2010 Benchmarking of HEIs – Russell, 94 & Millieum +
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April 20, 2010 Benchmarking of other Libraries Olivia – Information, How do I find what I want, What to do with the information I find – managing info, Plagiarism awareness, referencing