Lindsey Martin - Learning and Teaching Fellowship Profile
I am an academic librarian within Learning Services whose remit has broadened to take in learning and teaching (both of the face to face and e-learning variety), research and scholarly activity.
I studied social sciences as an undergraduate, more recently, I obtained a PG Diploma in Information and Library Management and I am currently working towards a Masters in e-Learning here at Edge Hill.
I am committed to enabling others become informed users of information and have recently developed an information literacy framework for Edge Hill. This is essential as research has demonstrated that access to huge amounts of quality information online doesn't automatically equate with its actual use. Following on from information literacy and my experience of e-learning is an interest in the concept of e-literacy described as the “awarenesses, understandings, and reflective-evaluative approaches that are necessary for an individual to operate in information-rich and IT-supported environments”. (Allan Martin, 2003).
I am a confirmed convert to online learning and have developed some modules for Learning Services that have received national interest e.g. Times Higher/LTSN e-Tutor of the Year award runner up 2003 for EXPERTease, an online information skills tutorial. Our understanding of e-learning is still pretty much in its infancy but I have found that the blended modules I have completed so far as a student have transformed my approach to learning.
My Fellowship foci reflect the interests described above. In addition, I have undertaken research into tutor expectations and student behaviours in relation to reading lists. This work was done with Dr Peter Stokes, a former Edge Hill Learning and Teaching Fellow who now teaches at UCLAN. We are presently writing up our findings with a view to identifying principles for good practice that we hope to disseminate at the CLTR conference in June 2006 and publish in learning and teaching and library and information journals.
Outputs delivered during my Fellowship
Book review on 'Guidelines for FE College Libraries' published in the winter 2005 edition of SCONUL Focus.
Paper delivered at the 6th World Conference on CPD & Workplace Learning for the Library and Information Professions. OSLO August 10-13 2005 (a satellite of the IFLA conference). The paper is called 'The bespoke approach to developing and delivering online staff development', has been written in full, peer reviewed and accepted without amendment.
Presentation delivered at Edge Hill’s CLTR conference on 4th July 2005 and entitled 'Enabling e-literacy: providing non-technical support for online learners'.
Presentation delivered at Edge Hill’s CLTR conference on 21 January 2005. The result of a collaboration with Dr Peter Stokes and called 'Reading Lists: a study in tutor and student perceptions, expectations and realities'. Currently being written up as two full papers for publication which delivers the results of research and offers guidelines for staff and students.
Paper accepted for the CLTR Occasional Papers Series in December 04 entitled ‘Just in case’ or ‘Just in time’: developing an Information Literacy Framework for Edge Hill'. Peer reviewed.
Workshop delivered with Mark Roche at the 3rd WebCT User Conference 2004 Amsterdam, Holland 16th - 18th February 2004 entitled 'The right tools for the job: customising a WebCT' course.
Chaired a Round Table on the topic of e-Literacy at the 2nd CLTR Symposium, Edge Hill, February 2006. The discussion was informed by a paper written by me and made available to those attending and entitled 'Enabling e-literacy: providing non-technical support for online learners'.
I was a 2005 Institutional nomination for the NTFS.