Philomena Aziakpono's presentation at the first CPUT Teaching with Technology Day

1. By
Zanele Mathe – Senior Librarian
and
Philomina Aziakpono - Lecturer

2.  Response to CPUT e-learning policy
requirement
 Framework for the second cycle of Quality
Assurance 2012 – 2017
 Generally seeks to respond to the changing
needs of our users
 Increase collaboration with the Faculty & e-
learning department

3.  Develop and test CPUT libraries position in
the area of Blackboard as e-learning platform

4.  3 Librarians
- Siviwe Bangani (Communication105)
- Nomambulu Dolo (Communication 101)
- Nyameka Mila (Consumer Behaviour)
 3 Lecturers
- Philomina Aziakpono
- Ken Barris
- Kevin Ncube
 E-learning coordinator - Sheila Kumalo
 Library IT technician - Claude Meyer

10.  Time consuming exercise
 Technical support
 Crossing traditional boundaries

11. From the library side: -
 Relationships strengthened between the
library and the Faculty of Engineering
 Library invited to the Faculty of engineering
sharing of practices,
 Regularly attend Departmental meetings,
Faculty Board meetings
 Faculty – Librarian collaboration visible at
Senate library Committee level
 Dialogue improved

12. Why interest in the collaboration?
 When students have to do the search for
information on their own they sometimes
encounter difficulties , hence, they use
Google to search for materials
 They copy from only wikipedia or other
sources that are not good academic materials
 The good materials on Google - not be free
(students’ complaint – only abstract)
 Few sessions of library orientation are not
enough
◦ Post-library orientation struggles

13.  Active involvement in all the stages of my
students’ information literacy and research
essay assignments
◦ Regular discussions with students and librarian
◦ Checked first drafts of assignments
◦ Identified the challenges students faced
◦ Felt the need for a self explanatory guide which
will assist the students to search for information
more effectively

14. ◦ Discussions with librarian for more support
◦ Initially direct support was given to each student
 The demand from students was overwhelming
◦ This gave rise to the design of the “How to search
for information guide”
 Available on Blackboard and N-Drive

15.  Effective use of library tools instead of just
copying from wikipedia because of the support
they received from the librarian
 There was great improvement in the quality of the
essays written by students this semester
 The information they obtained from books and
journals helped them to do accurate in-text
referencing – author’s surname, date and page
numbers
 Improved understanding of the topics they wrote
on, compared to the previous year where many of
them copied from only one source
 Helped to reduce plagiarism

16.  Need to strengthen this collaboration at CPUT
 Every lecturer should be encouraged to work
closely with the librarian

17. Thank You!
Questions?