Staff Information skills : strategies to influence

up-take

Alison Mackenzie

Session outline• Introduction

• background• what do we mean by

information skills for staff

• Your starter for 10• Assessing your

institution• Drivers for change• Handouts to help

• Questions

2002 Big Blue

2003 Big Blue connect

2004 Where

next? Raising awareness

Writing

2005 Publication& Seminars

Content development

“There are three reasons why information literacy needs to be owned by the whole ….. community.

The first is because information literacy is about learning information literacy is about learning how to learnhow to learn ……

The second is the lifelong learning agendalifelong learning agenda.

The third is the rapid obsolescence of content …., rapid obsolescence of content …., making knowledge of how to learn, how to find, evaluate making knowledge of how to learn, how to find, evaluate and apply newand apply new information that more important for information that more important for professionalsprofessionals and their professions.

Bundy (2004)

Why?

All Employees for example:

Teaching staff Researchers

Managers Administrators

Student support services IT staff

Staff Developers Customer services

External Relations Estates & Planning

HR staff Learning Resource staff

Workplace information skills : Stakeholder communities

StudentsProfessional Partners

•Other Education institutions

•Development agencies

•Industry

External Funding agencies

•Research

•L&T developments

•Projects

Employers

Local businesses

Government

•DFESQuality Assurance

Agencies e.g.

•Ofsted; QAA

Local community

Defining Staff i-skills “What do you mean by information skills?”

“It’s a library thing”

“If you don’t know what they are, how do you recognise that you need to improve them?”

“That’s for students isn’t it?”

Definition of i-skills

What is being used

StrategiesTwo approaches : two publications

Investing in Staff i-Skills :Investing in Staff i-Skills :A A strategy for institutional strategy for institutional developmentdevelopment

– Provide evidence to support the argument for investment in staff i-skills

– Examine the potential risk little or no action is likely to have on the effectiveness of an institution

– Provide an example of an institution-wide framework to progress i-skills

Improving Staff i-skillsImproving Staff i-skills: : An An introductory guideintroductory guide.

It will help you to:– Define i-skills

– Understand why they are important for individuals and institutions

– Recognise i-skills in context

– Make a start on an i-skills staff development plan

– Develop ideas to help you deliver i-skills provision for your own institution

Further Education - Key players

ILT Champions

Learning Resource Centres

Regional Support Centres

Teaching staff

Institutional Strategies

Drivers

Your turn• Need to align with

drivers for change

• They can all be applied in i-skills context (but not all of equal weighting)

• Which are most relevant for your institution?

Adding up the benefits

Ways forward

• Identify those drivers which you can capitalise on

• Where can you invest your energies to achieve greatest impact?

• Look at our ‘Starter for 10’ for inspiration

• Share your successes• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/cpdresources

And finally….

‘’It is as absurd to try and solve the problems of education by giving people access to information, as it would be to solve the housing problem by giving people access to bricks’Diana Laudrillard, 2002

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/cpdresources