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SARAH
CROSSLAND
Sarah Crossland is the Site
Librarian at University Centre
Doncaster, and has recently
completed the MA in Education
Innovation and Enterprise at the
University Centre Doncaster.
I chose the course as I thought it
would be really interesting. It was
looking at innovation and
enterprise within education and
how Learning Resource Centres
can use new and emerging
technologies to greater effect to
support teaching and learning
activities. From very early on I
thought it would be something I’d
like to do.
The course is designed so that
regardless of your background,
you can apply the modules to your
own area of professional practice.
We were able to tailor it to our
own work and focus in on the
areas which were of particular
interest.
We all had such varied
backgrounds, we learnt a lot from
each other.
THE BENEFITS TO MY EMPLOYER
I think from my perspective, it
helped me to look at the role of
learning resources; how we
support learners, but also how we
support our academic colleagues
in their teaching practices.
The course helped me develop
resources such as an electronic
plagiarism tool, which is now
used in the University Centre.
As part of my dissertation I
surveyed 50 students to find out
how well, or otherwise, they were
supported by the University
Centre’s distance learning. I’m
now using that information to
implement changes, which will
improve the support and
guidance that we are providing.
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