OVERVIEW• INTRODUCING THE ILRB
•WHY THE OER APPROACH?
• BACKGROUND TO ILRB DEVELOPMENT
• ILRB HIGHLIGHTS & USAGE
• SHARING THE ILRB RESOURCES
INFORMATION LITERACY RESOURCE BANK
http://ilrb.cf.ac.uk
WHY THIS APPROACH?
•Support Schools & subject librarians in embedding IL
•Develop a central bank of learning resources which are:
•Bite-size
•Generic but re-purposable
• Interactive and interesting!!!
• Enhance our self-help resources for students
BACKGROUND• Initial funding from University in 2005
• Academic staff and subject librarians consulted
• Top topics: citing references & plagiarism
• In-house development
• No branding
• Re-usuable images
• External collaboration – OU, Birkbeck College, Washington University
BACKGROUNDContinued to develop content to
meet requirements
• Students’ Survival Guide to
Writing a Good Essay
• Tutorials on other referencing
styles
• Top Tips Videos
HOW ARE THEY BEING USED?• Classroom based-teaching
• Enhance handouts
• Practical activities
• Follow-up self-help
• Most popular resources:
• Citing references
• Avoiding plagiarism
• Re-used in subject based support pages, Distance Learner toolkits and referencing Support web site
• 363,000+ users visited the site in the past year
PEDAGOGICAL APPLICATIONSCheck prior knowledge
Practise skills
Formative assessment
Enhance lesson materials
Further help
SHARING THE ILRB RESOURCES• Resources on a publicly accessible
web site
• Creative Commons licence where
possible
• We can supply the source files for
resources created in-house
• Keen to promote sharing of expertise
and materials within the profession
EXAMPLES OF RE-USE
EXAMPLES OF RE-USE