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Staff Information skills : strategies to influence
up-take
Alison Mackenzie
Session outline• Introduction
• background• what do we mean by
information skills for staff
• Your starter for 10• Assessing your
institution• Drivers for change• Handouts to help
• Questions
2002 Big Blue
2003 Big Blue connect
2004 Where
next? Raising awareness
Writing
2005 Publication& Seminars
Content development
“There are three reasons why information literacy needs to be owned by the whole ….. community.
The first is because information literacy is about learning information literacy is about learning how to learnhow to learn ……
The second is the lifelong learning agendalifelong learning agenda.
The third is the rapid obsolescence of content …., rapid obsolescence of content …., making knowledge of how to learn, how to find, evaluate making knowledge of how to learn, how to find, evaluate and apply newand apply new information that more important for information that more important for professionalsprofessionals and their professions.
Bundy (2004)
Why?
All Employees for example:
Teaching staff Researchers
Managers Administrators
Student support services IT staff
Staff Developers Customer services
External Relations Estates & Planning
HR staff Learning Resource staff
Workplace information skills : Stakeholder communities
StudentsProfessional Partners
•Other Education institutions
•Development agencies
•Industry
External Funding agencies
•Research
•L&T developments
•Projects
Employers
Local businesses
Government
•DFESQuality Assurance
Agencies e.g.
•Ofsted; QAA
Local community
Defining Staff i-skills “What do you mean by information skills?”
“It’s a library thing”
“If you don’t know what they are, how do you recognise that you need to improve them?”
“That’s for students isn’t it?”
Definition of i-skills
What is being used
StrategiesTwo approaches : two publications
Investing in Staff i-Skills :Investing in Staff i-Skills :A A strategy for institutional strategy for institutional developmentdevelopment
– Provide evidence to support the argument for investment in staff i-skills
– Examine the potential risk little or no action is likely to have on the effectiveness of an institution
– Provide an example of an institution-wide framework to progress i-skills
Improving Staff i-skillsImproving Staff i-skills: : An An introductory guideintroductory guide.
It will help you to:– Define i-skills
– Understand why they are important for individuals and institutions
– Recognise i-skills in context
– Make a start on an i-skills staff development plan
– Develop ideas to help you deliver i-skills provision for your own institution
Further Education - Key players
ILT Champions
Learning Resource Centres
Regional Support Centres
Teaching staff
Institutional Strategies
Drivers
Your turn• Need to align with
drivers for change
• They can all be applied in i-skills context (but not all of equal weighting)
• Which are most relevant for your institution?
Adding up the benefits
Ways forward
• Identify those drivers which you can capitalise on
• Where can you invest your energies to achieve greatest impact?
• Look at our ‘Starter for 10’ for inspiration
• Share your successes• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/cpdresources
And finally….
‘’It is as absurd to try and solve the problems of education by giving people access to information, as it would be to solve the housing problem by giving people access to bricks’Diana Laudrillard, 2002
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/cpdresources