blended learning

It’s a Wrap! Review and Feedback from our SupportDM Course

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Receiving his supportDM certificate

Receiving his supportDM certificate

 

Receiving her supportDM certificate from Sarah jones (DCC)

Receiving her supportDM certificate from Sarah jones (DCC)

The supportDM course at UEL is now complete and it’s time for us to assess how well it’s gone and to ask out librarians for their views (and to present their graduation certificates).

With a free lunch on offer (in order to entice our busy librarians away) and with the help of Sarah Jones from the DCC we sat down to ask some serious questions of the course. However, what made our task more difficult was the lapse in time since last meeting and also the large gaps in between meetings for the modules. As a reminder therefore Stephen provided a quick overview of the course modules, the tasks that had been carried out in the meetings as well as the homework that was set.

Graduates of SupportDM receiving their certificates.

Graduates of SupportDM receiving their certificates.

We then asked the following questions about the supportDM Course:

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Reviewing Module 5 of SupportDM – Cataloguing and Sharing Data

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Sharing pollen!

We met with our subject librarians on Monday June 3 to review Module 5 (on Cataloguing and Sharing Data) of the supportDM data training course for support staff at UEL.

Xerte module

A chunk of the blended learning course is the online module produced in Xerte and imported into our Moodle VLE. The module was designed to take no more than 60 minutes. It explained ways to share data, to licence them for reuse, and the metadata needed for finding and understanding datasets in repositories. It also covered developments in data registries and data repositories.

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Psychology Research Data Management: The Results

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On 7 June the TraD team carried out a feedback session on the training we’ve carried out for the professional doctorate students in educational psychology. The training consisted of introductory presentations and offering the MANTRA course material via the newly launched Moodle virtual learning environment at UEL. We wanted to find out their views on how well it went but also on the future design of the course: we’re building for the long term.

Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA Image by Adam Fagan http://www.flickr.com/photos/afagen/2730921504

Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Image by Adam Fagan http://www.flickr.com/photos/afagen/2730921504

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Reviewing Module 3 of SupportDM – Data Management Plans

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We met with our subject librarians on Monday to review Module 3 (on Data Management Plans) and to introduce Module 4.

A chunk of the blended learning course is the online module produced in Xerte and imported into our Moodle VLE.

Despite Stephen’s best efforts to create a thrilling online module covering DMPs it wasn’t fully appreciated by all of our librarians, however.

“Online learning isn’t really my thing.”

“I speed read through the online  modules”

“I get more out of these [face-to-face] sessions than I do from reading online”

“I’d rather do everything in one session, like today”

But…

It seems to reinforce what we’ve done in the meeting.

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Launching SupportDM

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Stephen Grace and Our Survey Says….

Yesterday saw the start of  the training strand of the TraD project which is developing skills appropriate to those planning a library-led RDM support service.

“SupportDM” is being run as a “blended learning” programme which combines presentations, online learning modules, activities and group reflection. The 5 modules of the course are as follows:

  1. About RDM
  2. Guidance and support for researchers
  3. Data management planning
  4. What to keep and why
  5. Cataloguing and sharing data

Yesterday’s first meeting brought together seven subject librarians at UEL in addition to the Academic Services & Skills Manager, an Assistant Librarian and two Commonwealth Fellows from Ghana and India.

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