Encouraging Student Reading with Ideas Café
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The Ideas Café was established by Library staff and teaching staff in the Kent Business School, to tackle the problem of students not reading around topics. It provides a safe space for any student or member of staff to discuss a wide range of topics and give research-based presentations of a subject of their choice.
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- 1. Ideas Café Encouraging wider student reading Andy Prue – Templeman Library
- 2. The Problem • Students only engage with Lecturer’s prescribed reading • Seemingly no willingness to read around the subject
- 3. The Solution • The creation of a community; the Ideas Café • A place to share the benefits of wider reading and its application • No hierarchy, no limits on membership • The Library as venue
- 4. The Outcome • Establishment of a shared community, based around the University Library • Opportunity for wider networking, in a multi-cultural and multi-positional environment • Safe environment to practice presentation and discussion skills on any subject of interest
- 5. Community
- 16. Lessons Learned Along The Way • Everyone needs a coffee at 18:00 • Danger of online only • Need to advertise and market the group more effectively
- 17. Moving Forwards • Templeman Lecture theatre pre-booked for 2017-2018 • Promotion through student induction sessions • Advertising & marketing • Accommodation of Distance-Learners during live events • Blog/EventBrite (Student/Staff attendance tracking tools?)
- 18. Questions?
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Editor's Notes
- [Click] A conversation with one of the Business School Academics, who is also a Practice Partner in a firm of Chartered Accountants, identified an issue with the calibre of Business School graduate being produced. Graduates were perceived as being technically competent, but lacking the creative ability to think outside of the box, to employ different ways of thinking. We both agreed that University was a fantastic opportunity for wider intellectual development, with the opportunity to engage with the vast collections held within the institution.
- There seemed to be no reading beyond that suggested by the Lecturer; tick-box learning if you will! As a consequence, students were employing an extremely parochial approach to their studies, failing to seize the opportunities available to explore any forms of wider intellectual curiosity.
- The establishment of a community, as a platform, to explore, share and learn from the benefits of wider-reading. A safe place to practice presentation, discussion and argument abilities Explore possible relationships between disparate subjects Further intellectual development
- Successful establishment of a multi-disciplinary/multi-positional community (ranging from Undergraduates to Academic and Research Staff) Everyone was valued, respected and seen as being equal Involvement in the delivery of presentations and discussions Accommodation of a multitude of views and cultures Increasing awareness of what the University Library has to offer
- Danger of online only (e.g. the AOB Facebook page) – becoming just an online chat room Everyone needs coffee at 18.00!!! Need to effectively advertise and market the group
- Promotion of the group during multidisciplinary induction student induction sessions Advertising Lecture Theatre booking Accommodating Distance-Learners in live sessions WordPress Blog EventBrite to track live attendees