I participated in the FOLIOZ course on ‘Designing and Delivering Information Skills Training Courses’ (InfoSkills) from March to May 2007 and was among fifty librarians in Australia contributing to this eight week course comissioned by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and delivered by a team based at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield in the UK.
About Infoskills
Infoskills is an online interactive course delivered by email and Web pages. The aim of the course was to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to design and deliver successful information skills training courses. It was a wonderful opportunity to interact with a wide cross section of information professionals and share our learning experience through Web 2.0 technologies.
The course was delivered through a number of tried and tested techniques including brief e-mail interactions (with the facilitator and assigned buddies) and was supplemented by quizzes and web-based materials (generally about one or two briefings per week) and readings. The Infoskills course was supported by a website which is available at http://foliozinfoskills.pbwiki.com/. The site provided access to key materials, resources and communication tools.
All our learning was captured in a portfolio that we had to complete on a weekly basis and was assessed at the end of the course. There was a major assignment and a number of brief tasks and exercises during the entire training course.
The Infoskills archive has the outline of the entire course and hosts all of the briefings and exercises which are disseminated during the course.
The course covered everything from: what information skills training is, to training needs analysis, to designing, delivering, promoting, evaluating and benchmarking information skills training courses.
What you will find useful if you are designing and delivering information skills courses ...
- How to develop your course aims, objectives and learning outcomes
- Training methods and techniques
- Evaluation methods
- Bibliography and guided readings
- Course summary
Information Skills Training Courses Gallery contains training courses categorised by their topic that were created by the InfoSkills participants as part of their individual assignment. These courses will give you lots of hints, ideas and examples when you are designing your own course.
Or you could customise the existing one to suit your training need.
During the course I interacted with course facilitators, buddies, completed quizzes, read briefings, and listened to a guest lectures to name a few... in between completing my daily tasks and keeping on track with the project. And doing it online was a useful skill to acquire.
Hope all the links will work and you will find this resource useful.
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