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

IL RESOURCE BANK HIGHLIGHTS

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