1. Making it easier for online learners
Students need Stuff:
Making it easier for online learners
Sue McKnight
Director,
Libraries and Knowledge Resources Nottingham Trent University eBooks and eContent Conference 13 May 2008
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2. Overview of Presentation What students want. Whose responsibility
Overview of Presentation What students want? Whose responsibility? Role for libraries
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3. What do students want? Research undertaken at NTU: Student VLE Workshops (2005) eLearning Benchmarking Audit (2006) Basic Level of Online-ness survey (2008)
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4. Student Workshop Results Reliability Training and Support Search Engine across all Content Seamless Access to Resources Online community for L&T
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5. Student Workshop Results Personalised Information Personalised Presentation Flexibility for all learning styles and needs Content – Consistency, timely, up-to-date Feedback on learning
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6. Student Workshop Results Security of Information Online Submission Availability 24 x 7 User Friendly Shared Workspace Self-Assessment
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7. Student Workshop Results Potential Blockages Slow and not easy to use Information not updated, and when it is I am not told Lack of academic staff time, motivation & buy-in
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8. Student Workshop Results Potential Blockages Lack of promotion of the VLE Lack of participation Lack of understanding & opportunity to use it and develop it Unreliability and not enough disk space
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9. Students Workshop Results Potential Blockages Lack of funding and resources IP and copyright issues PC limitation Not catering for various learning styles Lack of feedback Loss of human interaction
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10. eLearning Audit – what students want Study resources, course materials Timetable Library resources esp. eJournals, eSearch Module handbooks
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11. eLearning Audit – what students want Discussion tools Anytime anywhere access Electronic databases Other software Online software tutorials
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12. eLearning Audit – what students want Issues: Skills of students to use eLearning environment Accessibility of system and resources Student use of tools Support for online learners Sufficiency of eLearning resources/pcs
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13. Basic Level of Online-ness – what students want Reading List resources & other resources Module content
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14. Whose Responsibility? Academics Students Centrally provided Services Library Service
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15. Academic Responsibilities Reading List
Academic Responsibilities Reading List! Course Information – Learning outcomes Lecture Notes, Audio/Video files Curriculum resources & learning objects Assessments Feedback
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16. Academic Challenges What’s available. Can I use it. How to use it
Academic Challenges What’s available? Can I use it? How to use it? Who will pay? How will it be supported? Can the students use it as required? What, on top of everything else?
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17. Student Responsibilities Assignments Assessment Activities Discussions Shared/Team content Personalised learning objects
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18. From other service providers. Educational support resources, e. g
From other service providers? Educational support resources, e.g. academic writing financial and budget planning IT Infrastructure and technical support resource rooms and PCs online data storage bandwidth and network single sign on ?
Are all these educational support resources in the VLE? Portal ??
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19. Library Responsibilities Reading List Resources. textbooks
Library Responsibilities Reading List Resources textbooks recommended reading background reading Collection – depth and breadth
Is there a reading list
Did we get it in time?
What’s a textbook?
Recommended reading in another module??!!
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20. Library Responsibilities Other Content. web links
Library Responsibilities Other Content web links audio/visual material Off-air recordings case studies reference resources past exam papers
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21. Library Responsibilities Other Content – Learning Objects
Library Responsibilities Other Content – Learning Objects ??? JORUM and EDNA Image files (e.g. cell images) Content + Assessment Data resources (astronomy/geology data) Simulations Licensing whole modules/programmes
Who is going to pay? Library?
Who knows what to buy?
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22. Library Responsibilities Access Links. Catalogue. Federated Searching
Library Responsibilities Access Links Catalogue Federated Searching Catalogue eBooks and eJournals eDatabases & research data Digital Repositories Learning Object Repositories Other libraries Other information providers
Standards
Metadata
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23. Library Responsibilities Training and Support. Using the VLE
Library Responsibilities Training and Support Using the VLE ? Basic IT skills ? Using the Library resources and services Induction, Basic, Advanced Online Tutorials Web Pages Printed Guides MP3 Guides etc
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24. Library Responsibilities Library Space in the VLE Monitoring and moderating discussions Blogs on specific topics and/or resources
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25. Library Responsibilities Legal Compliance Support
Library Responsibilities Legal Compliance Support Copyright and Intellectual Property Advice Plagiarism Citation Styles Ownership of IP & copyright Managing references Accessibility Advice and support Data Protection and Privacy ?
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26. Library Responsibilities Open Access Initiative Freedom of Access to Information Widening Participation Support Etc
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27. Library Responsibilities Proactive liaison with academic colleagues Proactive liaison with educational developers Proactive liaison with IT colleagues Proactive liaison with vendors, publishers, suppliers, standards bodies
CILIP Gazelle – pricing and standards hamper ebook take-up
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28. These observations are supported by the ACRL Environmental Scan 2007!
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29. No One will be Bored!!!
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30. Comments and Questions?
Thank You!
Comments and Questions?
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