Hi Richard
It's nice to see someone wishing to compare their LIS teaching with
others. Interestingly the LIMES project has facilitated 3 Communities of
Practice in:
* Research Methods
* Cat and Class
and
* Information Literacy.
We have paid for meeting costs and these have resulted in exchanges of
teaching material and joint bids for funding from the HEA-ICS to create
new LIS teaching material that various LIS staff felt could enhance
graduate employability and save LIS staff time by not have 3 or more
individual staff try and create their own materials. Thus saving time
and effort.
You may wish to consider this approach if you receive sufficient
interest. As the Director of LIMES I am prepared to pay for a single
face to face meeting and pay for travel and meeting costs if you find
sufficient interested colleagues. This would be aimed at facilitating
contacts, discussion of teaching material\needs for the future (ideally
based on real-life case studies in organisations as examples for
students) and preparing a bid for further funding from the HEA-ICS
Development Funds in August.
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/development-fund/index.php.
Please see LIMES web site for an idea of how this is working in the
other LIS subjects. Not all the LIMES teaching material is available and
online yet, but we will be completing the project by the beginning of
June this year.
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/limes/CONTENT/index.htm
and in particular the links to our LIMES Communities of Practice.
I have copied this to some Loughborough colleagues (including the Deputy
Director of HEA-ICS) who may be interested.
Regards
Derek
Dr Derek Stephens
Project Director LIMES (Library and Information Management Employability
Skills) Project
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
01509 223 080
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From: Information and/or Library Studies in the UK
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Sent: 09 May 2007 16:37
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Subject: Web Design in LIS
Hello all, you'll be glad to know I'm not selling either a course or
conference!
What I am doing is looking to make contact with those teaching web
design in
LIS departments. Why? Well primarily because I'm researching for a book
chapter in which I'd like to indicate which UK LIS courses cover
accessibility in their teaching of web design. But, also after teaching
this
stuff for ten years it would be nice to find out what others do and how
they
do it.
If you can help, or point me at someone you know could help, that would
be
great. As usual my timetable is yesterday!
I'd also be happy to hear from any commercial trainers listening in.
Cheers
Richard Eskins
Lecturer, MMU
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