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Info skills @ UELCathy Walsh
Ella Mitchell
26th July 2011
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At UEL
• ‘Get that Job’ tool• Open access• Professional looking• Highly accessible for students• Established brand
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Why we needed a new resource
• What we had was good but difficult to find• We wanted a refresher for students• A resource to suit different learning needs of
our students and students that are not always on campus
• Available 24/7 to match many of our services and to meet students’ expectations
• A resource that was not too dictatorial: to suit our ‘strategic learners’
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Why this approach?
• Focus on level one learners due to cost and time restrictions
• Information skills and academic integrity the priority
• Making information skills relevant to the student / assignment-focussed
• Students sometimes respond better to their fellow students
• Professional-looking resource
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Creative commons
• This is an Open Access Educational Resource.
• Open Educational Resources tend be more geared towards reusable objects….
• Videos on Youtube: can link to, embed etc. • PDFs downloadable • It is openly available on the internet.
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Other benefits?
• Open access enables collaborative partners and pre entry students to use the resource
• Contributes to the transition to UK HE for international students as well as home students
• Preparation for the expectations of HE learning
• Addressing the expectations ‘gap’ for academic staff
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What we had already
• UEL Library webpages• Information on the VLE• A lot of great information….. gently hidden! • Not a very clear layout• Site reliant on having had some guidance
in how to use it
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What we liked out there
• Staffordshire Assignment Survival Kit• Cardiff Information Literacy Resource Bank• Leeds Skills@Library• OU Safari
There are many other examples of good practice in this area.
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How we did it• Getting funding• Setting up project team• Consultations• High level design• Content map• Prototype• Detailed design • Content collection from SMEs• Intensive development
– web design – video production – guides – demonstrations – quizzes - writing pages
• Uploading content• Summative evaluations• Final version and launch• Copyright• Marketing
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Feedback
www.uel.ac.uk/infoskills
• We are always happy to hear your feedback about the site:
• Would you use it? How? Who with? • How might your students use it?
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What do you think?
• “Found Info skills very useful – great idea to put it all together” D. Patel
UEL student • “I have had another look at your Info skills pages and they are very
impressive” K. Virdee, Academic Liaison Librarian
• “p.s. I only discovered the eBook thanks to the InfoSkills website - very useful!” An e-mail from a student support officer, at one of our collaborative partnership institutions.
• ‘UEL’s new information literacy site looks good. Does what it says on the tin.’ Tweet
• Library staff have already started using the site and there has been some good feedback from students in information skills sessions.
• Web statistics since 1st March: – 1800 visits (550 returning)– Average 4.5 page views in 3.5 minutes– Referencing and Video Library are top entry points after Home Page
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Looking to the future:
• Planned launch for Semester A 2011/12• Looking into the use of the site on mobile
devices e.g. the quizzes are not compatible with Iphones
• Develop more multimedia content• Conduct further evaluation • Expand the resource into wider academic
skills
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Info skills @ UELThank you!