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Can the Key Principles of Open Skills Training Enhance the Experience of Prospective Students?

Can the Key Principles of Open Skills Training Enhance the Experience of Prospective Students?. Nicola Grayson and Johanna Delaney. Widening Participation Through Curriculum 2014. Overview. Outline current library offer

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Can the Key Principles of Open Skills Training Enhance the Experience of Prospective Students?

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  1. Can the Key Principles of Open Skills Training Enhance the Experience of Prospective Students? Nicola Grayson and Johanna Delaney Widening Participation Through Curriculum 2014

  2. Overview • Outline current library offer • Introduce My Learning Essentials and the key principles of the open training programme • Feedback, statistics and impact of MLE • Our proposal • Your feedback and questions

  3. Current Offer from the Library

  4. Summary of Problems No feedback No learning outcomes Information led Library skills only No quality assurance Statistics don’t measure impact Engagement and promotion could be improved

  5. MLE – Open Training Programme Open to all students Skills based so students walk away with a practical skill Flexible modes of delivery to suit different learning styles Workshop format: facilitation encourages active learning Open to feedback which is used to create and inform future sessions Online resources are open access Reports using stats and feedback demonstrate impact Quality assurance procedures built in We are building a community of trainers and students

  6. Feedback and Statistics 1966 students have engaged with the face to face support since pilot semester Jan 2013 (launch of MLE Oct 2013) 521 (26.5%) of these are students from low income families. 159 (8.1%) from Low Participation Neighbourhoods 1602 (81.5%) from state schools

  7. Feedback and Statistics 25,238 have used our 27 online resources so far 6688 from low income families, 2044 from LPN’s, 20,569 from state schools Revision Support Jan: we put on 33 workshops and saw 265 students in less than 3 weeks. This revision: UMASS podcasts

  8. Enhancing the Current Offer No feedback No learning outcomes Information led Library skills only No quality assurance Statistics don’t measure impact Engagement and promotion could be improved -utilise existing MLE impact and feedback mechanisms – clear skills objective – skills based and interactive – academic skills too – built in QA procedure – stats used to create reports – improve web presence, initiate early engagement, use peer to peer learning

  9. Measuring and Demonstrating Impact Strategic repositioning Transpose methodology and adapt feedback mechanisms Ensure seamless transition to HE Introduce changed landscape of the academic library as source of support aiming to increase retention and social mobility Reports to generate actions, make improvements and measure impact Student rovers assist to measure and demonstrate impact Operate in line with MLE impact group

  10. Potential Problems and Limitations… What do you think

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