Developing a shared curriculum in higher education: from theory to practice

Dr Jane Secker, Dr Emma Coonan and Maria Bell

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How do you perceive the relationship between learning development, digital literacies and information

literacy?

Secker & Coonan, 2011, p.6

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Bent, 2007, p.62

“they don’t know how to use that

database properly so they can’t be

information literate”

one librarian said to me

www.slideshare.net/jisc-elearning/current-issues-and-approaches-in-developing-digital-literacy

Digital literacy (Beetham & Sharpe 2010)

http://newcurriculum.wordpress.com/using-ancil/

Information literacy (Secker & Coonan 2011)

Graduate identity (Hinchliffe & Jolly 2011)

Values Intellect Performance Engagement Reflection

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ANCIL at LSE …. The story so far

The audit

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Developing a framework

Embedding in the curriculum

The SADL project• Collaborative Project:

Library, Centre for Learning Technology (CLT), Teaching and Learning Centre, Student Union, IT Training

• Engagement with 2 academic departments: Statistics and Social Policy

• Recruited 20 students to attend 4 workshops

Recruitment and rewards

How do you approach an assignment?

Workshop 2: reading and writing in your discipline?

Workshop 3: Managing and sharing information

How do you keep up to date, manage, store and cite your information?

Emerging findings and observations

• Challenges any assumptions and generalisations about students as they are all different and have developed different strategies for study

Contrasts between disciplines - Statistics students don’t tend to use Library resources- Social Policy students read extensively

Sharing – cautious about where and how Enthusiasm for engagement / involvement in a

support role is boundless – untapped resource

Lessons learnt

Role: requires clear expectations Developing relationships takes time Workshops require:

Defined aims and objectives A lot of preparation time Appropriate learning space

Platform for students to share ideas? Expected greater engagement with the blog Exploring alternatives – Facebook Group, Moodle, Padlet

Increase publicity outside project to academic departments and other students to gain momentum

Thank you!

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References Beetham, Helen and Sharpe, Rhona (2010) Digital literacy framework.

Available at: http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/page/46740204/Digital%20literacy%20framework

Bell, Maria, Moon, Darren and Secker, Jane (2012) Undergraduate support at LSE: the ANCIL report. The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/48058/

Bent, Moira (2008) Perceptions of information literacy in the transition to higher education. National Teaching Fellowship Project Report. Available at: http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/pub_details2.aspx?pub_id=55850

Hinchliffe, Geoffrey and Jolly, Adrienne (2011) Graduate identity and employability, British Educational Research Journal 37(4), 563-584

Karnad, Arun (2013) Embedding digital and information literacy into undergraduate teaching. Centre for Learning Technology (CLT), London, UK. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/51221/

LSE Digital and Information Literacy Framework (2013) Available at: http://bit.ly/1gq63IO

SADL Project (2014) Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy. Available at: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsesadl/

Secker, Jane and Coonan, Emma. (2011) A New Curriculum for Information Literacy: executive summary. Available at: http://ccfil.pbworks.com/f/Executive_summary.pdf

Wingate, Ursula (2006) Doing away with study skills, Teaching in Higher Education 11(4), 457-469