Talk on IBL & learning space

This is a week of "sharing practice" in learning and teaching at Sheffield Uni and I was giving a talk in an internal seminar called Advocating Inquiry Based Learning, specifically focusing on the use of the learning space refurbished using CILASS money.

My talk was called Collaboratory in practice: Department of Information Studies: a case study and I was talking about what we had used this space for, which modules, plus some detailed examples of activities. A couple of the activities were in a Human Resources Management module, some others in a Business Information module and a new module called Inquiry in Information Management. Here is the presentation in a pdf format: http://dis.shef.ac.uk/sheila/webber-barthouse2007.pdf
If you want to see what the room we were discussing lookes like, there is a video A technology-rich space for inquiry-based learning: CILASS – University of Sheffield on the JISC website (scroll down the page to find the link). Also the photo above was taken in the room at the poster presentation which was the culmination of the Inquiry in Information Management class. I avoid putting photos of students on my blog because it doesn't seem fair to them, but this seemed OK as it is mostly backs, and mostly my colleagues' backs, at that (they were helping to assess the posters).

Other presentations today were from Bill Hutchings of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry Based Learning at Manchester Uni (see http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/ceebl/resources/ where there are a number of papers by him) and two colleagues in English, Duco van Ostrum and Richard Steadman Jones: here is a posting on the CILASS blog about their class. You can also see them in the above JISC video.