THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE SUBJECT LIBRARIANNOWAL ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS GROUP

15TH MAY 2014, UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON

HELEN MILLER & MICHELLE O’CONNELL

EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY

WHO ARE WE?

• Michelle O’Connell

Academic Liaison Librarian: International & Partnerships

michelle.oconnell@edgehill.ac.uk

• Helen Miller

Academic Liaison Librarian: Faculty of Health & Social Care

helen.miller@edgehill.ac.uk

#FoHSCLibrarian

LESSONS IN ENHANCING ACCESSIBLE DISTANCE SUPPORT

• shared whiteboard

• application sharing

• web sharing• interactive tools • breakout rooms• session

recording

WHERE ARE YOU UP TO WITH THIS TECHNOLOGY?

a) No prior experience

b) I have attended a webinar

c) I have delivered a presentation via webinar

d) I have led or delivered an interactive webinar

e) Better still…

Improve equity of access to expertise

Increase staff and student engagement

Introduce service efficiencies

Development and Evaluation Project

POTENTIAL OF BB COLLABORATE TO ENHANCE ACCESSIBLE DISTANCE SUPPORT:

Strand 1

Outreach

Strand 2

Steps to Academic Success

Strand 3

Digital Excellence

OUTREACH

“Your students have changed. Change with them.” Blackboard’s marketing line for Collaborate.

The University has a growing number of outreach, distance learning and partner institution students throughout the UK – and beyond.

METHOD

• Flipped Classroom model – materials provided in advance

• 5 presenters: 2 Learning Technologists and 3 Learning Services

• 40 minute session: PowerPoint presentation, application sharing, voting tool and Q&A via chat box.

STEPS TO ACADEMIC SUCCESS

• ‘Finding Information for your Dissertation’

• Engage FoHSC Academic and embed pilot into a current programme

• Steps to Academic Success : pilot sessions in Routemaster program.

• Transnational Midwives

•Team members

•Training

•Face 2 Face to Online

•Timing

•Engagement with participants

•Feedback

WHAT WE LEARNED

• You will need to know your material inside-out

• You need to be comfortable within Collaborate – this only comes with experience

•Managing the group – gauging their understanding and interest plus answering questions and permitting/encouraging interaction.

For what areas of your work would/do you use a webinar tool like Blackboard Collaborate?

RESPONSES

• 1 Distance learners

• 2 Literature Search sessions

• 3 Academics enjoyed using it

• 4 Partner Colleges

WE ARE ONLY AT THE START OF THIS JOURNEY!

•Planning

•Practice

•Support

•Enjoy!

• We booked an IT room with no phone.

• We didn’t ‘flip’ the classroom.

• Used web share instead of application share – typing in boxes couldn’t be seen.

• Forgot to switch off microphone so the video we were all watching echoed.

• Student participating via mobile phone – mic picked up dog barking.

• Chat set to ‘private’ so all went to one moderator’s chat box.

• Moderator unable to hear despite successfully running audio wizard – volume slider was down.

• Tutor was automatically a moderator but was not aware of this – switched off the recording halfway through the session (and later deleted the recording) plus took over application sharing…

• Confusion over who should answer the question and whether verbal or typed.