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E-Learning Course for Librarians: English Skills Development

Explore the creation, content, review, and success of an e-learning course aimed at developing English skills for librarians. Includes course structure, feedback, challenges, and improvements. Contact us for more information!

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E-Learning Course for Librarians: English Skills Development

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  1. E-learning Course of Librarian Englishe-LKA Barbora Sedláčková and Pavla Lichnovská Masaryk University The Czech Republic

  2. Presentation Structure • Introduction • Course Creation • Course Content • Course Review • Course Success and Experience • Illustration of the Course

  3. Start of the Project • Project carried out within the complusory course APLS under KISK of Masaryk University. • Initiation: 10/2009 APLS • Team: 7 students of Masters Studies of LIS • Supervision: Bc. Jan Zikuška and PhDr. Petr Škyřík • Grant: 20 000 CZK (803.5 EUR) • Lenght of the project: 1 year (finally 2years)

  4. Target Creation and realization of e-learning course of English for librarians (e-LKA). • Participants Librarians working at academic/public libraries with more than 10 000 inhabitants in The South Moravian Region. • Required level of English pre-intermediate

  5. Course Creation • Survey among librarians (needed topics) • Cooperation with professional English teachers (plus 2 teachers in the team) • Consultation of subject terminology with foreign libraries

  6. Course Creation • Course created in Moodle. • Audio recorded with native speakers from the UK and the USA.

  7. Course Content • 9 Units, Each contains: Grammar + Subject Part • 1 Unit = 1 Week • Section of a Unit: 1) Study Materials (grammar explanation, vocabulary, study animation) 2) Exercises 3) Video 4) Compulsory Task (test or written essay)

  8. Course Content Units 1) Introduction 2) Welcome to the library 3) A book 4) In the library 5) A reader 6) Services 7) Technology in the library 8) Library presentation 9) Recapitulation

  9. Course Review • Participants had to finisha compulsory task in each unit by deadline (9 in total) and pass the final test. • We organised 3 face-to-face meetings to support and help participants. • Out of 61 partcipants 42 sucessfully passed the course. • Enthusiastic replies from participants

  10. Course evaluation Do you think that you will use your new knowledge at work?

  11. Would you like to continue with the course in future?

  12. Experience from the course • Librarians are willing and eager to learn. • However, we faced some problems: 1) Time-consuming Each lesson takes about 3-4 hours per week 2) Level of motivation Course was offered for free => some students gave up before the 3rd unit

  13. Experience from the course 3) Level of English A few participants were real beginners =>problem with the speed of the course Some participants were advanced => tried to test and correct us 4) Moodle complications Exercises and correct answers – automation has some drawbacks

  14. Course improvements • More precise entrance tests • 2 weeks per one lesson • Special exercisesto gain extra points in order to be more motivated • New Christmas lesson

  15. What is going on now and what will follow • 2nd run of the course October – March 2011 • 3rd run of the course March – July 2011 • Some creators of the course chose e-LKA as the topis of their diploma thesis

  16. Course Illustrations

  17. Czech Team Barbora Sedláčková

  18. Czech Team Barbora Sedláčková

  19. Study animation

  20. Thank you for your attention. Contact: projekt.elka@gmail.com. http://e-lka.webnode.cz/

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