Hello Laura

As Carina says, it’s often a slow drip branding and marketing process that raises the profile of a learning development service across its university and makes sure that resources are used. At Leeds all our students have regular Personal Tutorials which ensure they have access to academic, personal and pastoral support, which I guess happens in most universities. Our Personal Tutorial programme is underpinned by the ‘Leeds for Life’ initiative where tutors and students are encouraged to work through an online pro forma, with key questions which should be addressed at different stages of the student life cycle.  So, at the first personal tutorial meeting during an induction period students will be asked if they are aware of the Skills@Library online resources and if they say no, a hyperlink on the web forms takes them to our ‘For Students’ resources. This continues throughout each degree level, so students returning from work experience will be asked how they feel about returning to academic study, with a link to the Skills@Library resources if they suggest they are concerned about essay writing or referencing etc.

I think this link between the Personal Tutorial process and online academic skills resources is a really useful way of ensuring that both staff and student are continually made aware of the resources we produce and how to access them. It might be worth finding out if you have a similar approach to Personal Tutorials at Nottingham and making sure that your service is well represented at this point. Its a bit of joined up thinking which has certainly generated awareness of our workshop programme and online resources here at Leeds .

 

All the best

 

Julia

 

 

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Senior Academic Skills Adviser

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That looks like a great resource Carina – the question I have is how do you direct students to the site? We have study skills resources online here, but sometimes the biggest challenge is to  get the support of colleagues across the University to point students to them.

 

A question to the group also; how important do you think subject-specific study skills support is in regards to content which can be delivered centrally?

 

Best wishes,

 

Laura

 

 

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From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carina Buckley
Sent: 21 May 2013 15:00
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Subject: Re: Updating resources

 

You're welcome to look at ours! http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/succeed is open access and available under a creative commons license (for details of use I think it's on the FAQ page). It covers everything you mentioned and is being added to further over the summer.

best wishes,
Carina

Dr Carina Buckley
Learning Skills Tutor
Mountbatten Library (ML002)
Southampton Solent University

Vice Chair, ALDinHE
Chair of Research and Development, ALDinHE

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Date:        21/05/2013 14:56
Subject:        Updating resources
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Hi all,

UWS is currently updating its resource bank.  Instead of (please excuse cliché use) 'reinventing the wheel', I was wondering if any of you could recommend Creative Commons sites, which cover topics such as:

Critical thinking/writing/reading
Reflection/reflective writing
Academic writing, specifically lit reviews
Paraphrasing/synthesising
Research skills
Exam Technique

Thanks in advance,
Dickson.

Dickson Telfer
Effective Learning Tutor
University of the West of Scotland



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