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Graduate attributes and information literacy
Barbara de la Harpe
Dean Academic Development
Design & Social Context
RMIT University
26 November 2008
Experiences from the heart
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Introductions My journey Quick quiz Progress to date Most significant factor? What is valued? What is required? What works?
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My journey
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All universities have a list of graduate attributes
Could you recite your uni list?
There is a link between graduate attributes and employability
can you provide evidence?
All universities are doing things to develop information literacy skills
can you give an example?
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How far do you think universities have got with ensuring graduates
have well developed graduate attributes?
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…the overall picture in Higher Education systems around the world is one of patchy implementation and uptake of graduate attribute initiatives
Barrie, 2006, p. 218
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What do you think is the most significant
factor in ensuring graduate attributes are integrated into the curriculum?
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Missing link
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Evolutionary theory!
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Academic staff who are the ‘front-line’ actors engaged in implementation of policy related to curriculum development are often neglected when implementing institutional change projects
Academic staff beliefs impact on motivation and ability to take responsibility for developing graduate attributes
Ignoring such beliefs is a significant oversight
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Academics are experts in their field of study
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Assessment is the litmus test
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Assessment reveals what
is really
valued
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Elephant in the room
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…the beliefs that academic staff hold regarding graduate attributes has a major impact on their engagement in any institutional attempts to embed graduate attributes in the curriculum — especially when changes are initiated from the ‘top down’
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Gentle nudge
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Big push
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Factors that impact on embedding information literacy in courses
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It is worth the time, cost, results, social prestige Relative
advantage
It aligns with existing values, practices, needs, past experiences and social norms
Compatibility
It is not too difficult to do, learn and use any new skills required
Complexity There are opportunities to trial, experiment, and reduce
uncertainty to learn by doing beforehand
Trialability Results are visible and stimulate discussion, interest
and uptake Observability
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Rogers’ theory of perceived attributes or theory of the diffusion of innovations
Innovation is any idea, practice or object that is new to an individual
Focuses on individuals and their motivations to adopt innovations
Provides a theoretical explanation for adoption of an innovation
[Rogers, E.M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th Ed), New York: The Free Press.]
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What else is required?
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Institutional commitment Supportive context Leadership
and most importantly
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To me working with staff to embed information literacy into courses is like…
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… is like climbing a mountain
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Have to be really prepared buy all the gear Feels overwhelming and daunting at times Many stops and starts along the way
Can be foggy especially at the start
Can take ages
Need a thick skin from all the falls
Need to be aware of snakes and birds of prey
But geez it is beautiful out here and on the top!
Just can’t stop and so start again
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Universities should focus on developing graduate attributes?
It’s the academic’s role to teach and assess information literacy?
Academics have the confidence to teach and assess information literacy?
Teaching and assessing information literacy should be embedded in the discipline?
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…but it is too important to ignore
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtaoktUDWlE
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What works?
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…culturally, organisationally and academically, staff identify with their
discipline and approach their professional life by their discipline
(Hare, 2007)
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…the only hope for the work of graduate attributes
to move forward is to
engage with academic staff in the context of their
discipline to facilitate and support learning
and change
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open hearts and minds