student - library - lecturer collaboration to foster information literacy
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Philomena Aziakpono's presentation at the first CPUT Teaching with Technology DayTRANSCRIPT
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Faculty – Librarian collaboration on
Blackboard
By Zanele Mathe – Senior Librarian
and Philomina Aziakpono - Lecturer
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Why this collaboration……
Response to CPUT e-learning policy requirement
Framework for the second cycle of Quality Assurance 2012 – 2017
Generally seeks to respond to the changing needs of our users
Increase collaboration with the Faculty & e-learning department
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Blackboard collaboration trial : Aim
Develop and test CPUT libraries position in the area of Blackboard as e-learning platform
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Trial project team…. 3 Librarians
- Siviwe Bangani (Communication105)- Nomambulu Dolo (Communication 101)- Nyameka Mila (Consumer Behaviour)
3 Lecturers- Philomina Aziakpono- Ken Barris- Kevin Ncube
E-learning coordinator - Sheila Kumalo Library IT technician - Claude Meyer
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Developments on Blackboard…
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Ask your librarian page…..
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Ask your librarian page cont….
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Searching the library catalogue…
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Library catalogue search results…..
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Some of the challenges….
Time consuming exercise
Technical support
Crossing traditional boundaries
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Successes - Few highlights…From the library side: - Relationships strengthened between the
library and the Faculty of Engineering Library invited to the Faculty of engineering
sharing of practices, Regularly attend Departmental meetings,
Faculty Board meetings Faculty – Librarian collaboration visible at
Senate library Committee level Dialogue improved
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Lecturer’s view point….Why interest in the collaboration?
When students have to do the search for information on their own they sometimes encounter difficulties , hence, they use Google to search for materials
They copy from only wikipedia or other sources that are not good academic materials
The good materials on Google - not be free (students’ complaint – only abstract)
Few sessions of library orientation are not enough◦ Post-library orientation struggles
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What we did…. Active involvement in all the stages of
my students’ information literacy and research essay assignments
◦ Regular discussions with students and librarian
◦ Checked first drafts of assignments
◦ Identified the challenges students faced
◦ Felt the need for a self explanatory guide which will assist the students to search for information more effectively
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What we did (continued)……
◦ Discussions with librarian for more support
◦ Initially direct support was given to each student
The demand from students was overwhelming
◦ This gave rise to the design of the “How to search for information guide”
Available on Blackboard and N-Drive
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Benefits……. Effective use of library tools instead of just
copying from wikipedia because of the support they received from the librarian
There was great improvement in the quality of the essays written by students this semester
The information they obtained from books and journals helped them to do accurate in-text referencing – author’s surname, date and page numbers
Improved understanding of the topics they wrote on, compared to the previous year where many of them copied from only one source
Helped to reduce plagiarism
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Way forward…. Need to strengthen this collaboration at
CPUT
Every lecturer should be encouraged to work closely with the librarian
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Thank You!
Questions?