ANLTC - Academic and National Library Training Co-operative (Ireland): 2005 feedback forms

Course Title:

Designing and Delivering Information Skills Sessions

Presenter:

Terry Barrett

Venue:

DCU Library

Date:

21 January 2005

There were 11 participants on the course.

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree			Strongly Agree
Content and Design
The objectives for the course were clearly identified	o	o	6	5
The course was relevant to my needs	o	o	4	7
The pace of the course was appropriate	o	o	5	6
Handouts/materials were appropriate and useful	o	o	9	2
Practical sessions were well organized	o	o	4		5
Subject matter was covered to an appropriate level	o	o	6	4


Presentation
Presenter demonstrated good knowledge of subject	o	o	1		10
The material was presented clearly	o	o	6		5
The pace of the presenter was appropriate	o	o	5		6
The presenter was responsive to questions	o	o	2		9
Audio-visual aids were high quality and effective	o	o	8		2


Venue and Administration
Pre course administration was satisfactory	o	o	6		5
The training room was comfortable	o	o	6		5
Equipment for sessions was satisfactory	o	o	7		4
The catering was good	o	o	2		9


Overall Course Satisfaction
Overall the course met my objectives	o	o	6		5
Overall I was satisfied with this course	o	o	6		5

Open Questions

§ Interactive, participative, the more activities the better

§ Practical sessions

§ Writing learning outcomes

§ Collaborative group work

§ User education session

§ Using real situations to work on during sessions

§ Teaching and learning methodologies

§ Planning sessions/module writing

§ Structuring information skills

§ Being enables to create a plan and take it away

2. Which part of the course did you find least useful?

§ The pure theory at the beginning

§ All was useful

§ Each participant outlining their needs – a little daunting for some!

§ Thought we were left to our own devices a lot – some more direct intervention would have been helpful

3. Have you any other suggestions for improvements to the course?

§ Maybe a 2 day seminar

§ Timeframe quite tight

§ Excellent course

§ Would have liked some more time to discuss how other libraries are doing

§ More of them! Follow on.

§ Could be longer – allow for greater development of courses

4. What other activities would you like ANLTC to offer?

§ Presentation skills

§ Internet searching and evaluation

§ Teaching and learning and how it fits into librarianship

§ More in depth training on principles of teaching and learning

§ Session on problem-based learning

§ Same course offered by a librarian – with more focus on specific content/databases