CREDO Reference: the College perspective

Virginia PowerResources & eLearning

ManagerBridgwater FE College

2013

Joseph Brodsky

Point of departure for the information journey……

Credo Use

• Introduced into Bridgwater College in September 2012

• Integrated into information skills sessions

• Integrated into subject guides• Clearly signposted on the VLE• Making use of different language

options, especially French

Why we like it….the staff view

Link to the LMSSupport Materials

Usage statisticsTopic Pages

Referencing support

Why we like it….the student view

Link with College stuffConcept Maps

The Internet linksTopic Pages

Images

What is not so good…

• Not sure of the value of the BBC News Feed• Students can find it a bit American• Students can sometimes go round in circles with

Concept Maps• Occasionally ‘page not found’ comes up in a

reference search

What we want to do next….

• Develop our own Topic Pages to support the curriculum

• Incorporating the Credo Reference videos into our VLE

• More work on marketing and promotion of the resource

• Support students with using citation export• Consider Literati