information literacy for offshore students
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ANZIIL Perth Forum October 2004
Personal Service
delivering face to face information literacy
to ECU students in Singapore
Julia GrossEdith Cowan University
Faculty Librarian
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ECU Singapore Program
Faculty of Community Services, Education and
Social Sciences (CSESS)
•Two main faculty partners
• Advent Links
• Academy of Human Development
•Library Information Literacy faculty supported and funded
•Several faculty courses
• Counselling
• Childhood and Family Education
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Access to local library
collections in Singapore
•ECU partners have scant print collections
•Reliant on ECU for electronic collections
•No local librarian or library service
•No local university reciprocal
arrangements
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ECU students in
Singapore
•Bachelors, Masters
•Wide range of skill levels
•Language fluency
•English is 2nd language
•Adult learners
• IT literate
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Key issues for our
students in Singapore
•Unaware of ECU Library services
•Document Delivery
•External Library
•Unaware of ECU Library resources
•Print and electronic
•Authentication to library databases
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Course objectives
•Students
• can research a topic and locate information
sources
• display improved quality in written work
• avoid plagiarism
• become self sufficient
• feel less isolated
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Course delivery mode
• Demonstration
• Hands On
– Catalogue and
database
exercises
– Referencing
exercises
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Course content
•Research Process
• incl. referencing, avoiding plagiarism
•Library Services
• Document Delivery, External Library
•Library Resources
• Catalogue, databases
•Content evolving and adapting
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Course evaluation
Need more on
ReferencingNeed to learn
Blackboard
Quality of
assignments
improved
Needed this
sooner
Staff
Students
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How different is offshore
?
•Cultural and language issues
•Student learning styles
• Internationalisation of content
•Equity Imperative
•Planning and Logistics
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Planning and Logistics
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Changes 2001-2004
• Increasing reliance on electronic
resources
•More electronic content available
•More local content available
•More content requested by faculty
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AQUA audit of ECU
Singapore
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