Enabling widening participation students to acquire effective information handling skills

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Enabling widening participation students to
acquire effective information handling skills

• Penny Dale
• Bournemouth University

CoFHE and UCR Conference April 2004 E is
for Education also for Effectiveness
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Session outline

• The Alison Northover Bursary
• Libraries Without Walls 5
• The Conference Paper
• ( edited version ! )
• Group work and discussion
• Summary

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Alison Northover Bursary

• Awarded annually by UCR
• Staff development
• Full details on UCR website and flyer in your
  conference pack.
• www.ucrg.org.uk

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Libraries Without Walls 5

• Hosted by CERLIM
• Developed from EU funded project
• Remote users no longer unusual
• International
• Proceedings published

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Libraries Without Walls 5

• Widening Participation
• What the student does
• Biggs 1999
• Student perspective
• Prosser and Trigwell 1999

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The Challenge

• Can you make them think HE?
• They really must move on from the Diploma level
  in terms of the information they access and the
  way they set about it.

Tutor Foundation Degree
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The Barriers

• Dependent learners
• Reluctant to engage with the learning process
• Practical work based approach
• Reluctant to identify with Bournemouth University

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Breaking down the barriers 1The Mexican Hat
3. Students who are unlikely to achieve success
due to their lack of engagement. (not yet
participating and not yet achieving)
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2. Students who need extra support to achieve
success (participating and not yet achieving)
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1. Students who achieve success (participating
and achieving)
Robinson, A. Uddall, M. Southampton Institute
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Equine Studies - example web pages
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Breaking Down the Barriers 2The bespoke
serviceLynne Rutter Student Support Lecturer
Social workers to be retrained and registered
Violence is now part of the job for social
workers
Social Workers perspective We dont want to
be academics
Damned if they do and damned if they don't
Social workers, courage and the lessons of the
Victoria Climbié case
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The Bespoke Service Lynne Rutter Student
Support Lecturer

• Dedicated post
• Perspectives needs
• research
• Embedded support

• Tailoring support
• Professional approaches
• to information
• Practice-based sources

• Building Intrinsic Motivation
• Inclusion and involvement
• Value and use of experiential knowledge

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Conclusions

• Students perceptions as starting point
• Lead to more appropriate methods and innovative
  approaches
• Result is deeper engagement in the learning
  experience

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Over to you...

• What barriers to learning do widening
  participation students experience?
• How can a student perspective approach help to
  overcome these barriers?
• Examples of any ideas, methods, research etc.
  now?