{"id":397,"date":"2015-05-11T14:49:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2015-05-11T14:49:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:49:47","slug":"partnerships-between-learning-teaching-library-and-it-theta2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/partnerships-between-learning-teaching-library-and-it-theta2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnerships between learning, teaching, library, and IT #theta2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forging productive partnerships between learning, teaching, library, and IT<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/theta.edu.au\/program\/chat-in-the-lounge\/forging-productive-partnerships-between-learning-teaching-and-it\/\">abstract<\/a>)<br \/>\nCaroline Steel and Elizabeth Coulter<\/p>\n<p>Current university context &#8211; slow response to rapid tech change, constrained budgets, etc &#8211; how can we afford not to collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>CAUDIT top issues survey found &#8220;Supporting and enabling teaching and learning&#8221; at top of list. So sent out own survey (15 L&#038;T respondents, 7 IT, 2 library)<\/p>\n<p>Asked about<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>perceptions of role of IT in supporting T&#038;L &#8211; plurality thought valued business partner (many still thought: IT expert; gatekeeper; administrator). <\/li>\n<li>Perception that IT and T&#038;L working collaboratively &#8211; &#8220;to a moderate extent&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Perception that library and T&#038;L working collaboratively &#8211; largely &#8220;to a moderate extent&#8221; but some &#8220;to a large extent&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enablers: need to trust each other; have clear roles; leaders that get along<\/p>\n<p>Barriers: territories; role ambiguities; funding models; lack of shared goals; different perspectives on institutional goals<\/p>\n<p>Strategies: need to &#8220;speak more than one language&#8221; and translate between different cultures.<\/p>\n<p>Ideal partnership: enabling leadership; shared goals; cross-functional working groups; valued\/rewarded partnerships; encourage risk\/innovation\/experimentation<\/p>\n<p>Panel discussion:<br \/>\nQ: Does a collaboration between these groups really matter?<br \/>\nA: (Mark Gregory) Services we&#8217;ve long offered are now being offered in different ways. Need to move on, work together so don&#8217;t overlap \/ get in each other&#8217;s ways.<br \/>\nA: (Wendy Abbott) Teaching has IT underpinning, library input; library has IT underpinning. Need to collaborate to avoid wasting effort\/time<br \/>\nA: (Caroline Steel) Often not aware of what each is doing. Often doing same things as each other.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What&#8217;s gone well?<br \/>\nA: (Wendy) Revamping curriculum &#8211; team involving academic lead, IT staff, library staff, T&#038;L staff. Everyone brought expertise in, worked as a team from beginning instead of pulling in people halfway through. Required broad experience so librarian had to know pedagogy\/IT skills etc: demonstrated much expertise that impressed the academic on the team. Builds trust and understanding of benefits.<br \/>\nA: (Caroline) A community of practice put together &#8211; recognised incredible schools at other universities. Started with teleconference then a get-together. Has grown to all Australasia and across sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Q: (audience) Many library spaces are more collaborative now &#8211; where does IT have most impact here?<br \/>\nA: (Wendy) Mostly behind scenes, working with library staff to meet requirements. Also customer service assisting students with basic enquiries. Core skills for all staff whether IT or library to support users.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What are most important aspects of change?<br \/>\nA: (Caroline) Leadership: acknowledge we have different cultures across institution(s). Needs to come from top that we value these all so can set combined goals. Students don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s behind a service, need fantastic experience regardless.<\/p>\n<p>Q: (audience) Do partnerships help academics create content or confuse them?<br \/>\nA: (Caroline) Very confusing. Get phone calls about how to install TurnItIn and don&#8217;t know who to put them onto. Want to make it easy for teachers.<br \/>\nQ: (audience) So need to set role definitions?<br \/>\nA: (Caroline) Work in progress<br \/>\nA: (Mark) If started with blank sheet of paper today wouldn&#8217;t create three separate organisations &#8211; instead a &#8220;blurry sort of service organisation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Q: (audience) As leaders how do you motivate a reluctant collaborator?<br \/>\nA: (Wendy) Organisations create silos. Once people see benefits, that&#8217;s what encourages them.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What do we need to do next?<br \/>\nA: (Caroline) Encourage risk &#8211; need culture and reward system to break free of current system.<br \/>\nA: (Mark) Anything innovative looks like play therefore not serious. Need to push past this. Treat risk as appropriate cost and appropriate action.<br \/>\nA: (Wendy) Need to get senior management to understand that sometimes things will fail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/o4uyv5f\">Take part in the survey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forging productive partnerships between learning, teaching, library, and IT (abstract) Caroline Steel and Elizabeth Coulter Current university context &#8211; slow response to rapid tech change, constrained budgets, etc &#8211; how can we afford not to collaborate. CAUDIT top issues survey found &#8220;Supporting and enabling teaching and learning&#8221; at top of list. 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