Lollipop CoFHE NW Circle Presentation 2009

Lollipops for Learning Resources Anthony Beal 7 th May 2009

Overview
Information Literacy @ West Cheshire College
Discovering Lollipop
Information Literacy staff development
@ West Cheshire College
Project results

Information Literacy @ West Cheshire College
Learner – thorough induction introduce catalogue InfoTrac etc
Two full weeks during induction for all full time students
Learning Resources Workshop includes introduction to the VLE and i-skills
Quiz at end of LRW with prize of an MP3 player
Follow up i-skills sessions publicised by Springboard

Information literacy in the curriculum

High Profile Curriculum Links
Gatekeepers and regarded as such of:
i-skills
Research skills
Referencing
E-learning
Intranet
Web 2.0
Digital media

Induction Quiz on VLE

Learning Resources Home Page

Curriculum Area Page

West Cheshire College model Declining use of print resources

West Cheshire College model
Proof of expanding e-resource use
Full text retrieval

Actively promote information and research skills training
Bespoke
Springboard (club sandwich)
Academic writing
Research skills (Information literacy)
Referencing
Information literacy embedded into assignments

Learning Resources Staff
Recently converged, multi-disciplinary service
No real overall awareness of information literacy within curriculum areas
Curriculum liaison and information skills teaching done by selected staff
Needed a holistic awareness and approach
Opportunity for VLE familiarisation

Lollipop Information Literacy
Prior to the course all staff took part in Information Literacy discussions
All Learning Resources staff taking part
Blended learning
No charge for the materials that can be modified as required for hosting institution
All web based
At WCC now built into our VLE, Fronter

Lollipop content – learning materials

Lollipop content - forums

Lollipop content - blogs

Lollipop Staff Development – Results

How important do you think information literacy is?

How knowledgeable are you about information literacy?

What have you found most interesting about Lollipop?
Search terms Opinions of colleagues
Boolean operators Sconul
E-journals Critical evaluation
Authentication Primary/Secondary sources
Web sites Attitudes of curriculum
Plagiarism Gateways
Copyright Intellectual property

How much use do you make of the VLE?

How did you find the Lollipop materials and VLE functions?
Lollipop Content – 90%
Blog – 68%
Discussion – 77%

How familiar are you with the VLE functions?

Overall success
Would you recommend Lollipop for curriculum staff? 77%
Would you recommend Lollipop for students? 68%
What worked particularly well?
Discussion forums, Different VLE tools,
Tests at the end of each section, Group participation

Conclusions
Generalisations
Lollipop increases perception of information literacy as ‘important’ to learning
Lollipop familiarises staff with information literacy
Lollipop increases staff knowledge about information literacy
Lollipop is an effective way of delivering information literacy content
Lollipop can be used effectively as a staff development tool
Lollipop can be used to increase awareness and familiarisation of institutional VLE functionality

Anthony Beal 01244 670578 [email_address] skype: anthony.beal Twitter: http://twitter.com/redsontour

Lollipop CoFHE NW Circle Presentation 2009

by Anthony Beal on May 12, 2009

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