Lynne Rutter

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Lynne Rutter Penny Dale

• Ways to Engage
• Widening Participation Students

Bournemouth University
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Libraries Without Walls 5

• Hosted by CERLIM
• Developed from EU funded project
• Remote users no longer unusual
• International
• Proceedings published

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Libraries Without Walls 5

• Widening Participation
• What the student does
• Biggs 1999
• Student perspective
• Prosser and Trigwell 1999

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The Challenge

• Can you make them think HE?
• They really must move on from the Diploma level
  in terms of the information they access and the
  way they set about it.

Tutor Foundation Degree
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The Barriers

• Dependent learners
• Reluctant to engage with the learning process
• Practical work based approach
• Reluctant to identify with Bournemouth University

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The Mexican Hat
3. Students who are unlikely to achieve success
due to their lack of engagement. (not yet
participating and not yet achieving)
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2. Students who need extra support to achieve
success (participating and not yet achieving)
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1. Students who achieve success (participating
and achieving)
Robinson, A. Uddall, M. Southampton Institute
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Breaking Down the Barriers 1
Little participation
Examine perceptions
Beginning to participate
Provide interventions
Participating and engaging
On-going support available
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Equine Studies - example web pages
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Breaking Down the Barriers 2
Social workers to be retrained and registered
Violence is now part of the job for social
workers
Social Workers perspective We dont want to
be academics
Damned if they do and damned if they don't
Social workers, courage and the lessons of the
Victoria Climbié case
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The Bespoke Service

• Dedicated post
• Identify needs embed support
• Adult learning approaches met
• Inclusivity, use of experience, active methods
• Tailored support mechanisms produced
• Professional approaches and language
• Equality - practice-based bibliographic sources

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PQSW Information Skills portal
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Conclusions

• Students perceptions as starting point
• Lead to more appropriate methods and innovative
  approaches
• Result is deeper engagement in the learning
  experience

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Over to you...

• What barriers to learning are being experienced
  already for non-traditional students?
• Ideas on using a student perspective approach
  to address these?
• Examples of any ideas, methods, research etc.
  now?