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2. Viewpoints andInformation Literacy Presenter: Karen Virapen, Access and Distributed Learning University of Ulster Library Subject Team Meeting, 11th May 2011 3. Viewpoints Overview

Aim: to create user-friendly reflective tools to promote and enhance effective curriculum design.

The tools will help staff consider areas such as:

• • information skills/information literacy,

• • assessment and feedback,

• • learner engagement and

• • creativity in the curriculum

• while considering the learner perspective

4. F2F Workshop format

Allows teams to share ideas around course design

Using large learner timeline worksheet and A6 cards

Teams choose principles, map them to student timeline, select examples and write own ideas on timeline

5. Information Skills Theme

1 of 4 workshop themes

Aim to get staff thinking about students information literacy needs (e.g. research/study skills) for a module/course

Librarians can use these cards / workshop resources with staff

6. Pedagogical background

7 principles based onSCONUL Seven Pillars

Examples on the back of cards are adapted fromInformation Skills Benchmarks , a paper by Peter Godwin from the LIS

7. Information Skills - revisions

Librarians involved throughout revision process

August 2009- presented initial concepts to Subject Librarians

Autumn 2009 individual consultations with librarians card content

March 2010 interactive workshop with draft cards at Librarian Subject meeting

Throughout 2009/2010 piloting cards with course teams in Ulster

Summer 2010 new ideas for cards on Information Skills Ning social network

February/March 2011 final revisions from ADL team and librarians

8. Key changes made toInformation Skills theme

Meaning of some of the principles was unclear to some users so wording was changed to clarify meaning

Descriptions of principles on the front of cards was made simpler

Examples on the back of the cards were clarified and brought up to date with current library practice

Too much information cards summarised and simplified

Duplications on different cards removed

Examples grouped in a more logical way

Layout made easier to read

Branding and Creative Commons copyright added

9. Simplified principles easier to understand

Define the task and understand the topic

Identify appropriate resources

Search effectively

Find and extract information

Compare and analyse information

Organise and share information ethically

Interpret information and create new content

10. Examples - clarified

Streamlined information

Easier/quicker to read in workshop situation

Clear at a glance to staff or to students with limited knowledge of information literacy

In line with Ulster library practice

11. Printable cards

Can download printable Information Skills cards (in PDF format) from Slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/Viewpoints/information-skills-printable-cards

Viewpoints blog post explains how to print two cards to a page and make up cards

http://viewpointsproject.blogspot.com/2011/03/viewpoints-printable-cards-now.html

12. Next steps

To embed these workshops in the University to help course teams

Librarians central to this process delivering Information Skills sessions to lecturers using our materials as prompts

Workshop format and Information Skills theme are both complete 13. Other uses of our resources

Librarians/course staff could use cards with students, to show them information literacy concepts

Help learners to understand the skills that they have to develop, and specific examples of how to develop them (e.g. using software like Refworks to manage references)

14. How to hold a Viewpoints workshop

Viewpoints have written a Handbook to explain to staff how to use our reflective resources

This will give academics the information they need to run a Viewpoints course design workshop with their team

Librarians can use the Handbook for ideas/hints on running an Information Skills workshop

15. About the Handbook

Currently at draft stage

Draft 1 is available online to download via Slideshare we would welcome any suggestions on this draft from librarians

http://www.slideshare.net/Viewpoints/viewpoints-workshop-handbook

16. About the Handbook (continued)

Final version will include a set of downloadable resources printable cards, handouts and resources for each theme, sample workshop plans, useful links, etc.

We welcome suggestions of resources or handouts to include for Information Skills/information literacy you may already have some handouts for the Library

Send comments/suggestions to k.virapen@ulster.ac.uk

17. Viewpoints Project End

Working on finishing the

Handbook and downloadable

resources for staff to use

More workshop delivery/refinement of other themes

Development of parallel online tool for curriculum design

Development phase ends July 2011

Dissemination/evaluation phase ends Autumn 2011

18. Information Literacy, our resources and you

Viewpoints are supplying10 sets of module-level Information Skills cardsto the Library (course-level printed cards to follow)

Once extras are printed we will give the Library3 sets of the A0 size laminated student worksheets in the meantime you can borrow worksheets from Viewpoints if required

You can have your own information literacy workshops for staff or students if desired, using the Handbook and cards as a guide

Use the card resources creatively as prompts, to invite debate, to discuss information skills load in a course, to get students to consider information literacy.You will have your own ideas on how to best use cards

19. Conclusions

These slides are available online for online viewing or download athttp://www.slideshare.net/Viewpoints/presentations

Any questions?