Friday 16 March 2012

The FE Challenge!

Having successfully rolled out a series of information literacy sessions to HE students, it was more than time to pursue some of my more elusive FE tutors to get them to book their classes in.

One tutor had been particularly difficult to track down, had booked a session in the past and then cancelled...had exchanged emails with me, but all attempts to track him down for a meeting had proved fruitless.

When we did meet up it was a very positive encounter; he is a great advocate of independent learning and our IL sessions dovetail in with this nicely.  We've set up an internet session focusing on the module and assignment the students are working on at the moment (perfect!)

He was also keen on a 'research platform' or resources links page on our VLE, happily made some suggestions for links, and agreed to have an input.

Lots of boxes ticked here!
Relevance of session to students subject study, which increases their motivation
Collaboration with academic staff
Embedding IL into curriculum and scheme of work
Positive dialogue with academic staff

Now to make sure the session is a good one and my now on-board tutor tells all his colleagues!