With respect to studying with refreshments - last week we started a
Breakfast Club in our teaching room (adjacent to our Learning
Workshops). Running from 9-12, we are offering coffee, access to our
best resources plus the chance to talk about coursework with other
students - and with experienced tutors.
In the real politik of ever decreasing resources I am hoping that this
Club is a hybrid of taught/one-to-one provision: more learner-centred
than a taught course - but more resource effective than one-to-one...
Another take on HEA's 'Social Learning Spaces' in fact!
Best
Sandra
Martin Hampton wrote:
> With respect to Nicola's cafe idea - this is something which some Maths
> tutors have set up here at Portsmouth (Maths Cafe) to help
> self-referring students with numeracy issues. One of my Academic Skills
> Unit colleagues joins this drop-in once per week, and this is proving
> successful - possibly slightly more so than when we have done the same
> in the University Library in previous years.
>
> Martin Hampton
>
>
>
>>>>Nicola Jo Mellor <[log in to unmask]> 16/02/2007 15:01 >>>
>
> I have no personal expertise in this but I will chip in anyway and
> offer an idea that came up at a conference last month. The conference
> was on careers management skills and one institution (I wish I could
> remember which) had careers materials and a careers officer in a corner
> of a café. Perhaps this could work to some extent for learning support
> (though obviously not for confidential work). Outreach and coffee in
> reach?!
>
>
>
> Nicola.
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: learning development in higher education network
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pauline Ridley
> Sent: 16 February 2007 14:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Central or locally provided support
>
>
>
> Thanks Jane.
>
> We have five separate campuses here with a library on each site and
> only a partial fit between Schools and sites. I'm trying to find out
> optimum location for a potential new advisory service, given limited
> staffing and space available anywhere at any level. Does anyone have
> experience to add to what's been said here so far about relative merits
> of different locations?
>
> Pauline
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: learning development in higher education network
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jane Mullen
> Sent: 16 February 2007 12:46
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Central or locally provided support
>
> Dear Jo,
>
> When I first arrived at Huddersfield there was no room for me
> in the School and I had to use the library...... begrudgingly. There is
> some research on how students use libraries and the fact they enter them
> with a clear mission- surprisingly seeking advice with their work is
> often not high on the list. Hence, take up in the initial months was
> low, but when I moved into the School and was more visible to both
> lecturers and students things really took off. Numbers of students rose
> considerably and liaison with colleagues led to a range of new
> developments. We are fortunate at Huddersfield, due to a HEFCE funded
> project, to have then taken this School based model across the
> University and it has proved extremely successful, but that's not to say
> that it doesn't have some draw backs.However, my advice is stay where
> you are!
>
> Regards
>
> Jane
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: learning development in higher education network
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of JOCELYN DONACHIE
> Sent: 16 February 2007 09:26
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Central or locally provided support
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I am fairly sure this issue has been raised previously
> but it has now become an issue for me so I would welcome comments,
> invitations to visit, etc.
>
>
>
> At present I lead a Learning Development Unit based
> firmly in one faculty. Our work is a mix of one to one support and
> targetted lectures, much as Pat Hill describes.
>
>
>
> There is a suggestion that this support becomes
> centralised: ie placed within the uni library rather than in a faculty.
> Although I understand the rationale behind this, I would welcome
> comments from similar experience elsewhere.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jo
>
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