Designing and Delivering Information Skills Training Courses (InfoSkills)

 

About InfoSkills...

 

Welcome to the Designing and Delivering Information Skills Training Courses (InfoSkills) web pages. InfoSkills is an online interactive course on information skills training that is being delivered by email and Web pages. The course was commissioned by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) as a pilot FOLIOz course for Australian librarians during March-May 2007 and due to its popularity is being re-run. The aim of the course is to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to design and deliver successful information skills training courses.

 

The InfoSkills course begins on Monday 6th June and will end on Thursday 21st July 2011. To keep track of the course so far, see the InfoSkills archive. To see an outline of upcoming course materials and exercises, see the InfoSkills course timetable

 

 

 

 

InfoSkills Course Materials...

 

Key materials:

 

• The group portfolio template for the course is available to download here: groupportfolio, or the self directed portfolio here: selfdirected.

 

• Assessment criteria for the group portfolio, or self directed assessment criteria.

 

 

Reading:

 

• InfoSkills Course Introduction
• InfoSkills FAQs
• Further Reading 

 

 

 

Got a question to ask the FOLIO Team?

 

Email us at efolio@sheffield.ac.uk ensuring InfoSkills is included in your subject heading.

 

As the course goes on, Frequently Asked Questions and their answers will be compiled so don't forget to visit the Q & A wiki to see if your question has already been answered.

 

 

 

Briefings

 

An introduction to information skills and information skills training

 

Carrying Out Training Needs Assessment

 

Designing information skills training courses

 

Choosing the individual course components

 

Creating training course schedules

 

Promoting information skills training courses

 

Delivering information skills training courses

 

Evaluating information skills training courses

 

 

Individual assignment

 

Part 1.

Part 2.

 

 

 

Other Materials

 

‘Developing aims, objectives and learning outcomes’ PowerPoint presentation

 

Day 10 exercise

 

Andrew Booth's Guest Lecture: The Training Half-Life and Transcript or view the video

 

Quiz

 

 

Benchmarking information skills training courses PowerPoint

 

Bibliography

 

Course summary

 

Quiz answers

 

 

 

Further materials will be added throughout the course

 

 

 

 

Course aim...

 

This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills to design and deliver successful information skills training courses

 

Course objectives...

 

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

 

 

Understand and define the concepts of ‘information skills’ and 'information literacy'.

Assess and evaluate training needs

Develop aims, objectives and learning outcomes

Promote information skills training courses

Deliver information skills training courses

Evaluate information skills training courses

Engage with fellow course participants in discussing issues arising from information skills training

 

Useful references

 

For more information about information skills training, see the following references:

 

 

 

Ian Forsyth, Alan Jolliffe and David Stevens. Planning a Course: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Lecturers and Trainers (Part 1). London, Kogan Page Ltd; 1995

Ian Forsyth, Alan Jolliffe and David Stevens. Preparing a Course: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Lecturers and Trainers (Part 2). London, Kogan Page Ltd; 1995

Ian Forsyth, Alan Jolliffe and David Stevens. Delivering a Course: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Lecturers and Trainers (Part 3). London, Kogan Page Ltd; 1999

Ian Forsyth, Alan Jolliffe and David Stevens. Evaluating a Course: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Lecturers and Trainers (Part 4). London, Kogan Page Ltd; 1995

Alison Hicks. Training the Users. Chapter 14. In: (eds) Andrew Booth and Graham Walton, Managing Knowledge in Health Services. London, Library Association publishing; 2000 Online: Accessed February 2005

Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Leeds. 2004. The Big Blue Information Skills Toolkit. Online: Accessed February 2005

Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Leeds. 2004. The Big Blue Project. Online: Accessed February 2005

NHS Information Authority. 2001. Health Informatics Competency Profiles for the NHS. Online: Accessed February 2005

SCONUL. 2004. Information Literacy pages. Online: Accessed February 2005

Jo Webb and Chris Powis. Teaching Information Skills: Theory and practice. London: Facet Publishing; 2004