RSCs - stimulating and supporting innovation in learning Information Skills in the Northwest Chrissie Turkington, JISC RSC Northwest Leo Appleton, West.

RSCs - stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

R e g i o n a l S u p p o r t C e n t r e

N o r t h w e s t

Information Skills in the Northwest

Chrissie Turkington, JISC RSC Northwest

Leo Appleton, West Cheshire College

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2005 – RSC Customer Satisfaction Survey

few respondents had thought about information skills training

overall 31% of respondents “Not Applicable”

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Catalysts

HEIs commenting on student lack of necessary information skills

More available resources; VTS, FPP, Tonic …

Regional Initiatives; RISKIT, Wigan and Leigh College, EXPERTease …

National Initiatives; Big Blue, i-skills,

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What Information Skills service has the RSC Northwest been providing?

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2006 RSC Customer Satisfaction Survey

“The college has had an extensive information skills programme for five years. JISC has helped this develop through the JISC Collection and CHEST agreements. Without the RSC support visits and updating, we would not have known what new materials was available to support learners or been able to purchase it.”

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Cliché – sorry!

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JISCmail List – what else!

51 subscribers across HE and FE

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/nwis

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Del.icio.ushttp://

del.icio.us/nwis

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http://moodle.rsc-northwest.ac.uk

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Present

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Stats

48 people on the Moodle Course Resources from 12 Colleges Two meetings (no. 3 tomorrow!) 9 attendees at meeting 1 16 attendees at meeting 2 4 Live Meeting training sessions

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The College View

West Cheshire College - Part of Cheshire Circle of College Librarians Pro-active in e-resource facilitation within the

college Interest in information skills provision Good curriculum links Keen to share good practice

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NWIS for colleges

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What does it mean for the colleges

Platform for discussion with peers Increased interest in information skills within

Learning Resources staff Sharing best practice Repository for information and study skills

resources Saves time in session planning Online training opportunities Future collaborations

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Chrissie Turkington

JISC RSC Northwest

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Leo Appleton

West Cheshire College

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