Thanks to Kathrine Jensen for pointing me to The Tidy Librarian’s blog, in particular her post reflecting on the recent LILAC conference (http://thetidylibrarian.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/lilac-conference-25th-27th-march-2013.html). Reading this has made me think about my own practice and what it is I really want to achieve through TEL. Central to this is the importance of active learning – I was reminded of this looking through the slides of Emily Shields, Rosie Jones and Karen Peters’ presentation. According to Dale’s 1969 Cone of Learning model, two weeks after being taught something, we retain only 10% of what we have read, but 90% of what we have said and done. My main objective for myself at present is to incorporate more active learning into my teaching sessions so my 2nd big question is
“How can TEL help me to incorporate more active learning into my sessions?”
Behavioural and Social Sciences Subject Librarian at the University of Huddersfield.