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Feeding the 500: Introducing information literacy to first year business &
management undergraduate students
John Hynes (Teaching & Learning Librarian: University of Manchester Library)
Anna Goatman (Senior Lecturer in Marketing: Manchester Business School)
John Pal (Senior Lecturer in Retailing: Manchester Business School)
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/collaborate/support/priorities/
Manchester Business School
540 First year undergraduate Students
59 Nationalities
Range of educational backgrounds
A foundation for studying Management at university
Academic and study skills
Introduction to management
disciplines
Managerial and professional
skills
First year curriculum
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Partnership with the Library to deliver two core courses
Academic and Career Development
Case Studies in Management
The Essay
Develop academic writing skills
Understand the role of citations and referencing
in academic writing
Learn how to build an academic argument
Know how to research and access library
resources
Do men make better managers than women?
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Formative
essay
Assessed
essay
Full course lecture on
resources
delivered by the library
Timetabled hands-on
workshop
Delivered by teaching
assistants
Access to online
resources via VLE
developed by the library
Full course lectures
on academic writing
delivered by academic staff
Seminars on good
academic practice
delivered by academic staff
Feedback
from academic staff
Drop-in clinic with
librarian
The Pitch and Proposal
Collect, analyse and interpret business data
Work independently and collectively to ensure the
delivery of business-focused outputs.
Apply, critically, tools and techniques to analyse a
business situation
Develop and justify recommendations based on appropriate research.
Assess the feasibility of opening a new hotel
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Formative
Workshop
Assessed
Workshop
Full course lecture on
resources
developed by the library
Timetabled hands-on
workshop
Delivered by teaching
assistants
Access to online
resources via VLE
developed by the library
Full course lectures
on academic writing
delivered by academic staff
Seminars on good
academic practice
delivered by academic staff
Feedback
from academic staff
Drop-in clinic with
librarian
Unseen case
exam
7500 hits via VLE
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Online resources (My Learning Essentials)
Introductory session
Workshops
Learning through research - MBSAcademic and career development
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Feeding the 500: notes from a survivor
“Do men make better managers than women?”
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Survey results
Preferred Learning
Mode
Which of the following modes of learning do you prefer?
Base Size: All students 302
The majority of students prefer a mixed method of
learning, with purely online based learning the least
preferred method.
8%
19%
73%
Online
Lecture
Mixed
Which of the following modes of learning do you prefer?
Base Size: UK students (124) International students (178)
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Online Lecture-based Mixture of both
UK Students International Students
%
When we split this by international students and UK students
we see similar results with both groups preferring a mixed
method – an opinion favoured slightly more strongly amongst
our international students.
Why do students prefer a mixture of online and lecture modes of
learning?
Base Size: All students 302
Why do students prefer a mixture of online and lecture modes of learning?
Base Size: All students who prefer mixture of online and lectures (221)
Spontaneous mention of… %
Having a variety of learning modes makes learning more interesting 10%
Online resources enable me to study in my own time / pace 10%
Lectures allow me to ask questions about things I don’t understand 10%
They provide different information 8%
People have different learning styles 8%
I like the opportunity to work independently 7%
A combination of online learning and lectures reinforces the information 7%
Lectures provide extra depth 5%
The Lecture
Base Size: UK students (124) International students (178)
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89 92 90
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Delivered in aneffective manner and
held my attention
Aims were clear Relevant to myprogramme
Useful and willbenefit my studies
UK Students International Students
Total Agree (strongly agree and agree)
We see very high scores amongst both UK and International
students for the lecture.
Online Resources
Base Size: UK students (124) International students (178)
77
91 90 9285
93 90 93
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30
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Delivered in aneffective manner and
held my attention
Aims were clear Relevant to myprogramme
Useful and willbenefit my studies
UK Students
Total Agree (strongly agree and agree)
With the online resources seeing similar results.
Overall Learning
Experience
Base Size: UK students (124) International students (178)
77 7988
9389 89 93 94
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Good learningexperience
I have been encouragedto develop my skills
which will be useful formy future career
Relevant to myprogramme
Useful and will benefitmy studies
UK Students International Students
Total Agree (strongly agree and agree)
Our UK students are less likely to feel it was a good learning
experience, and that it would be helpful for their future,
however the scores are still high.
What are the best aspects of this learning experience?
Spontaneous mention of… %
Showed me where to find information and resources
12
clear / easy to use 12
Helped me with my essay writing
7
Study at my own pace / in my own time
6
Interactive 6
Base Size: All students 302
Students are spontaneously mentioning they liked the fact the
showed them where to find information and how to search for it.
12% of our sample also spontaneously mentioned how easy to
use the online resources were and how clear the whole
programme was.
How could this learning process be improved?
Spontaneous mention of… %
Group / peer learning / seminar
3
Audio to go alongside online resources
4
Too slow 3
More examples 2
Base Size: All students 302
Most respondents didn’t think that the service needed
improving, however this is a common answer for this type of
question as you are requiring the students to think of an actual
suggestion rather than simply asking them if they think the
service should be improved or not.
Our courses wouldn’t be half as good without the input from the library, and student engagement with library resources wouldn’t be half as good if they weren’t integrated into academic courses.