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The Library, learning and your students

Ruth Harrison, Team Leader: Learning Development

Learning Development team?

Plus the FSS liaison teams and Help Desk staff at all campuses

Why another team?

• FSS subject teams have strong relationships with departments, including those established by teaching, but . . .

• Our online programmes have expanded beyond the UG level common to most university libraries

• Need central strategic leadership• Beyond information literacy skills

What has the Library done to date?

• Olivia, PILOT, PILS• Teaching in departments• Training in the library, across all campuses• Designed teaching session to address issue of

plagiarism

www.imperial.ac.uk/library/learningandsupportnew (test pages May 2008)

What do I (the Library) want to do?

• Develop Olivia, PILOT and PILS; extend coverage to all PGT students, and staff

• New content for our courses in consultation with you, students and library staff Assignment Survival Kit

• Focus on our teaching delivery, including moving from the concentrated 1st year courses

• Continue to address plagiarism, in conjunction with departments• Examine how students evaluate information, and work with

them on developing their critical and analytical skills when doing study and research

How?

• Partnerships with: Departments Learning technologists CED Careers Service ICT The Graduate Schools FSS subject teams SDU

How? Focus on students’ needs

• Different teaching and research areas have different information needs

• Type of assessment varies: i.e. essay, report, project, case study, presentation, oral,

poster

• Different educational backgrounds for example, wide variation in understanding of plagiarism

• Academic and language skills

And how will you know how your students are doing?

• We need your input: students respond to assessment (marks)

• The work they do should incorporate all the practical and analytical skills we are teaching