TVU SEARCH Module

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TVU SEARCH Module
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Origins Development

• Based on a model developed at University of
  Southampton Library
• Adapted by TVU for Level 4 learners (HE)
  undergraduate level
• Adopted and developed at Reading for Level 3
  learners (FE) pre-UG level

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Delivery

• Online delivery via Blackboard TVUs VLE
• 8 Module units Bibliography
• Interactive online tutorials with user activities
• Links to other web-based tutorials eg Intute

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Module Units

• Unit 1 - Welcome to the Module and Introduction
  to Blackboard
• Unit 2 - What is information?
• Unit 3 - Using the Internet
• Unit 4 - Locating and evaluating information
  sources
• Unit 5 - Journals and e-journals
• Unit 6 - General and newspaper databases
• Unit 7 - Literature searching strategy
• Unit 8 - Applying the search strategy in a
  subject context

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Assessment (HE version)

• 10 credits awarded for
• Compile a subject bibliography (40 )
• Write an evaluation of sources used to compile
  the bibliography (40)
• Complete the module activities (10)
• Complete a multiple-choice end-test (10)

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Delivery Options

• Fully online no face-to-face teaching
• Full teaching support by Librarians
• Full teaching support by Academic staff
• Partial teaching support by either
• Each option has pros and cons

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Information Literacy Strategy

• Achieving high-level support for delivery
• Full integration into UG programmes
• Additional staffing required
• Recognition of teaching role for professional
  librarians

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Delivery at FE Level 3

• Make relevant for pre-UG learners
• Motivation
• Adapt language activities
• Reduce assessment criteria
• Ultimately redesign??
• Now being delivered to c.400 students at Reading

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Issues

• Delivered as formal teaching within FE programmes
  subject to Ofsted
• Staff support training required
• Class management
• Motivation promotion
• Structured lesson plans
• Overcommitment
• Review content

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Qualified Success

• Strong commitment from Librarians
• Support from FE HE academics
• One-year LSC funding for trial
• Raising student awareness ability
• Await results from first cohort

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Key TVU Contacts

• David McGrath
• Kanwal Virdee
• Barbara Moye
• Alison Owen
• mike.sharrocks_at_tvu.ac.uk
• 0118 9675082