#10 with Graham Walton, Assistant Director (Academic and User Services), Loughborough University Library
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What’s featured in this episode?
- Loughborough University topped the The Times Higher Education student satisfaction survey in 2016, at a time time when education in the East Midlands has received a grilling by Sir Michael Wilshaw. This episode features:
- Getting the user-experience right for students
- How universities can learn from the challenges in the content publishing sector
- Reclaiming the word ‘library’ as learning spaces evolve
- 24/7 learning accessibility vs. work/life balance
- Academic investment in light of free resources like Google Scholar
- How social media is used in the entire research process and what this means for peer-review
- Loughborough’s new campus in London
Tags:
UX, Times Higher Education, Students, University, Higher Education, Library, Learning Spaces, Academia, Academics, Google Scholar, LTHEchat, ALT, Peer-review, VLE, Virtual Learning Environments, Start-ups, Content Publishing, Ethnography
Reading and resources:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/student-experience-survey-2016-results
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ofsted-issues-warning-about-education-in-the-east-midlands
