Hi Bryony,

We have a Study Advice Organisation on Blackboard rather than a course, so content and enrolment rolls over each year. It’s been a useful exercise for giving easy access to things like self-audit tools and slides from presentations, but we really see it as just that at present – not a major part of our self-access resources. There is a box to advertise it on School Blackboard portals which is a nice easy way to get a bit more dissemination.

We haven’t really used it for whole non-subject-specific study skills teaching modules – these are notoriously difficult to pitch so that they are suitable for students from all disciplines. However, I think there is scope for a ‘building block’ model with a suite of teaching activities located on Blackboard but liaising with Depts/module conveners to see which might be suitable for their students and create bespoke study skills modules. We are currently considering whether Blackboard would be the right place to create this sort of resources for taught postgraduate teaching.

I think we’d all agree that embedding skills teaching is the ideal, but (alas!) we don’t all live in an ideal world.

Best wishes,

Kim

Dr Kim Shahabudin, SFHEA, Study Adviser, Study Advice & Maths Support

University of Reading Library @ URS Building, Whiteknights, Reading

0118 378 4242/5222 : www.reading.ac.uk/library/study-advice twitter: @unirdg_study

Please note that I now work part-time and am not usually on campus on Mondays.

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From: learning development in higher education network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jayne Richards
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Hello Bryony,

At RBC we have been embedding skills into the models themselves and scaffolding them across levels. Our view is that they should not be seen as 'soft' and secondary to content but as important to learning as the subject matter itself. We Have several types - broadly divided into research, critical thinking/writing, communication and technical.

I hope this helps.

best

Jayne

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Dear All

Does anyone have experience of putting study skills modules on VLE, specifically blackboard? We are hoping to do just this, but any tips on what worked or what didn’t would be incredibly useful to us. Our study skills centre, KnowHow, is centralised and as such our modules would be stand-alone from any specific subjects.

Any advice or thoughts would be appreciated.

Bryony

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