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Evaluation

Evaluation which should include:-

• A discussion and justification of the pedagogical principles applied to the materials.
• A judgement of the effectiveness of materials
• Justification of chosen technology to the dilivery of the materials.
• Critically appraise the suitability of these materials for the chosen educational setting.

The elevation form is in the format of microsoft word. With this evaluation form the users could know what are they learning and a feedback for the facilitator in future.

Assessment

The assessment for the Information Skills Session is in the Hot Potatoes JQuiz. There are 10 question that should be answer by the students. The have to link to the above databases to get the answers :-

• PENDETA WEBPAC
• PERDETA WEBPAC iMALAYSIANA
• UML Databases with the user metric card barcod X01497134 and then go to databases access.

Search Strategies

This Session is in power point presentation where students will be introduce with:-

• Identifying search strategies
• PENDETA WEBPAC (Library Catalog)
• PENDETA WEBPAC (iMalaysiana)
• UML Databases for the databases users have to log in under users metric card barcode (X01497134) and then go to databases or e-journals or e-books

Introduction to the Library Services

Library Services:-

• Loan for postgraduate students is 20 items fo 30 days loans and can be renewed three (3) times unless they have been reserved by other users. Renewals can be done by telephone, email or on-line. The fines is 10 cents per day.
• Membership is open to all registered students of the University of Malaya.
• Interlibrary Loan service is available from the Main Library and Branch Libraries to all local universities, government and semi-government libraries and no fee is imposed by the Library to all postgraduate students that needs to locate meterials that is not in the university collection.
• Document Delivery is a service provided by the library for which journal articles not available in its collection are obtained from external sources. For Master students could get hold of 10 articles free and for PhD for 20 articles free in a years.

Introduction to the Library

The University of Malaya Library (UML) was established in 1959 and has a total collection of more than a million titles up to date. The University Library consists of a Main Library which provides library facilities for the whole campus and a network of branch and special libraries to meet the specific and special needs of some faculties.

The collection comprises of books, journals, conference proceedings, audio video, microform, theses and dissertations. UML also offers access to electronic resources such as e-journals, databases, citation indexes, and bibliographic management software.

Learning Materials

Content of Session

LEARNING MATERIALS

• Introduction to library through the University of Malaya Library Website
• Introduction to library and its services for postgraduate students eg. borrowing rights, interlibrary loan and document delivery services
• Identifying search strategies and basics of library research
• Library information sources
  a. Pendeta WebPAC (Online Catalog)
  b. iMalaysiana
  c. UML Databases

Learning Objectives

AT THE END OF THE SESSION YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO :

• To use/know method of searching
• Identify various type of information sources / library source
• Able to locate items in the library

Target Learner

Definitions:-

According to the Collins English Dictionary postgraduate student is 'a person who is studying for a more advanced qualification after obtaining a degree'.

Cambridge Learner's Dictionarary identified postgraduate student is 'a student who has a one degree and now studies at a university for a more advanced degree'.

The target learner for this blog is postgraduate students in University of Malaya, Malaysia. The postgraduate students in University of Malaya consists of programmes by coursework and mixed mode (dissertation) for Master and research programmes for PhD. These programmes can be 2 years for Master and 3 years for PhD. The Institute of Gaduate Studies (IGS) coordinates all postgraduate studies in the University of Malaya. Drawing on the strengths of the Faculties and Research Centres, as well as on the individual expertise available in the University, IGS hopes to help postgraduate students achieve excellence in multidisciplinary research, postgraduate education and training to meet the growing demands of the worlds of academic, economics, politics, science and technology and the arts.

Needs for Information Skills Session :

• To manage and well organize students research


• To find and locate of information in students research

Setting The Blog

As to start my learning materials should be accessing my blog at informationskillsession.blogspot.com

I'm setting this blog up as part of course work for Design Online Learning as "Communication and Collaboration for Online Learning".

Aim :

To design teaching and learning materials and to deliver them using an appropriate technology.

This assessment is in partial fullfilment of the following unit learning outcomes:

1. Critically appraise current trends in the private and public educational settings.
2. Apply the major principles of pedagogy to the design of teaching and learning using an appropriate technology
3. Evaluate on-line learning materials and reseources.

The following must be included:-

1. Description of target learner.
2. The learning objectives for the materials have produced.
3. The learning materials.
4. An assessment for the materials developed.
5. An evaluation of work should include :-

• A discussion and justification of the pedagogical have applied to the materials.
• A judgement of the effectiveness of materials.
• Justification of the chosen technology have used for the delivery of the materials.
• Critically appraise the suitability of these materials for chosen educational setting.