© Imperial College London The Library, learning and your students Ruth Harrison, Team Leader: Learning Development

Learning Development team? Plus the FSS liaison teams and Help Desk staff at all campuses

Why another team? FSS subject teams have strong relationships with departments, including those established by teaching, but... Our online programmes have expanded beyond the UG level common to most university libraries Need central strategic leadership Beyond information literacy skills

What has the Library done to date? Olivia, PILOT, PILS Teaching in departments Training in the library, across all campuses Designed teaching session to address issue of plagiarism (test pages May 2008)

What do I (the Library) want to do? Develop Olivia, PILOT and PILS; extend coverage to all PGT students, and staff New content for our courses in consultation with you, students and library staff  Assignment Survival Kit Focus on our teaching delivery, including moving from the concentrated 1 st year courses Continue to address plagiarism, in conjunction with departments Examine how students evaluate information, and work with them on developing their critical and analytical skills when doing study and research

How? Partnerships with:  Departments  Learning technologists  CED  Careers Service  ICT  The Graduate Schools  FSS subject teams  SDU

How? Focus on students’ needs Different teaching and research areas have different information needs Type of assessment varies:  i.e. essay, report, project, case study, presentation, oral, poster Different educational backgrounds  for example, wide variation in understanding of plagiarism Academic and language skills

And how will you know how your students are doing? We need your input: students respond to assessment (marks) The work they do should incorporate all the practical and analytical skills we are teaching