Papers and presentations

Conference papers, reports, chapters and articles

Hastie, N. Porch, S and Brown, L (previous name). Doing it ourselves: promoting women’s health as feminist action in Gabrielle Griffin (ed.). Feminist activism in the 1990’s. Taylor and Francis, 1995.

McGill, L., Developing a Distance Learning Service. Paper presented at International Conference Thinking out of the box: library services for distance learners, British Council, University of Sunderland, 2000

McGill, L., Information skills. Paper presented at Seven Pillars of Wisdom? Good practice in information skills development, SCONUL, University of Warwick, 2000

McGill, L., Managing a self-contained Distance Learning Service. Paper presented at Library services for off-campus users: the future looks bright, University of Surrey and University of Lancaster, 2000 Published in proceedings, 2002.

McGill, L., Global chat: web-based enquiries at the University of Leicester. Paper presented at the International Conference – Libraries Without Walls 4, September 2001. Paper published in Conference proceedings, London, Facet Publishing, 2002

McGill, L., Any which way you can: providing information literacy support for distance learners. New Review of Libraries and Lifelong Learning, 2, 2001

McGill, L. Measure for measure: using statistics to monitor service take-up of the University of Leicester Library’s distance Learning Unit. in Library and Information Research News, 26 (2), Spring 2002

Aitkins, J. and McGill, L. An investigation of the use of an email semi-structured interview guide to establish the Learning Outcomes for an Information Skills session delivered to distance learning students. Report for Learning Impact Research Pilot Project, University of Leicester, January 2003

McGill, L. Deliverance: information literacy support for distance learners, Paper presented at Elit 2003 International Conference on Information and IT literacy, Glasgow June 2003

Keeble, H. and McGill, L. Guerrillas in the mist: breaking through boundaries to provide a first-class remote library service. Serials 17, 1, March 2004. Based on a paper given at the UKSG seminar ‘The Radical Library: taking up the challenge’, London, November 2003

McGill, L. Lost in translation: trying to decipher different perceptions of e-literacies. Paper presented at Elit 2004 Conference, New York, June 2004

Wodehouse, A.,  Grierson, H. and McGill, L. Efficacy of a digital repository for retrieval, storage and use of technical information in a student product development project, Paper presented at 4th International Conference of Advanced Engineering Design, Glasgow, Sept 2004

Littlejohn, A. and McGill, L., Report for JISC E-learning and Pedagogy Research Study: effective resources for e-learning.  June 2004

MacGregor, G. and McGill, L. Digital Libraries and Information Literacy Issues within Virtual Learning Environments: An e-Learning Impasse? LILAC (Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference). 2005, Imperial College London

McGill, L., Durkin, C. and Littlejohn, A., Not just the usual suspects: a strategic approach to developing literacies for learning in the higher education community, Elit 2005, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, June 2005

McDonald, D and McGill, L., The Emergence of eLiteracy: enhancing our understanding, Elit 2005, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, June 2005

McGill, L., Nicol, D., Littlejohn, A., Grierson, H. Juster, N.P. and Ion, W.J. Creating an information rich learning environment to enhance design student learning:  challenges and approaches, British Journal of Educational Technology,36 (4) Fall 2005

Wodehouse, A., Grierson, H., Ion, W.J., Juster, N.P. and McGill, L.,  Enhancing design learning using a digital repository. International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 05 Melbourne, August 2005

Littlejohn, A., I. Falconer & L. McGill  Characterising effective eLearning resources, Computers & Education (2006), doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2006.08.004

Rees, P. Mackay, L. Martin, D. and Durham, H. E-Learning for Geographers: Online Materials, Resources, and Repositories Foreward by Lou McGill, Information Science Reference (Nov 2008)

McGill, L and Currier, S and Duncan, C and Douglas, P (2008) Good intentions: improving the evidence base in support of sharing learning materials. Project Report. http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/265/

Beetham, H. and McGill, L. and Littlejohn, A. Thriving in the 21st century: Learning Literacies for the Digital Age (LLiDA project). Report June 2009 (pdf) Executive Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations. June 2009 (pdf)

McGill, L. Synthesis of JISC Curriculum Delivery projects interim reports April 2010
Portable Document Format (pdf) File [ 240 Kb ]

Beetham, H., L. McGill, and A. Littlejohn. 2010. Beyond competence: Digital literacies as
knowledge practices, and implications for learner development. A paper for the ESRC
Seminar Series Literacy in the Digital University, March 1. http://www.open.ac.uk/research
projects/lidu/pics/d125464.doc (accessed December 16, 2010).

McGill, L. and Beetham, H. and Falconer, I. and Littlejohn, A. JISC/HE Academy OER Programme: Pilot synthesis and evaluation report. August 2010 (online report) https://oersynth.pbworks.com/Pilot-Phase-Synthesis-and-Evaluation-Report

McGill, L Curriculum innovation – pragmatic approaches to transforming learning and teaching through technologies   JISC Transforming Curriculum Delivery Through Technology Programme synthesis report Portable Document Format (pdf) File [ 1 Mb ] March 2011

McGill, L Series of blog posts for JISC CETIS Other voices blog about the JISC Institutional Approaches to Curriculujm Design Programme
Curriculum Design: The Big Picture June 2011
Curriculum Design: X marks the spot? July 20
XCRI-CAP – now is the time August 2011

Littlejohn, A., Beetham, H., McGill, L. and Falconer, I. (2011) Factors affecting the release of Open Educational Resources,  TD-Tecnologie Didattiche, ISSN  1970-061X (August 2011) http://www.tdmagazine.itd.cnr.it/

Presentations and workshops

The Virtual Enquiry service: using chat software to provide an interactive web based enquiry Service,  YHUA Seminar Supporting learners at a distance, SheffieldHallamUniversity, Sheffield July 2001

Above paper also presented at UC&R East Midland Section Seminar Virtual or Managed Reality? The library and the e learning Environment, De Montfort University, Leicester

Supporting off-site students, at U&CR East Midlands Section Seminar Targeting Services, University College Northampton, October 2001

The distance learning service at Leicester, EMAlink Going the Distance seminar – Services for Distance Learners, University of Leicester Library, November 2001

What’s the difference, U&CR East Midlands Section Seminar Dealing with diversity, AstonUniversity, Birmingham, May 2003

Using a VLE to support Information Literacy work. EMAlink Seminar, University of Leicester Library, June 2003

Supporting student learning through the use of digital repositories, Workshop at ALT Spring Conference, Edinburgh, April 2004

Student’s use of digital repositories: issues and perspectives, Presentation and workshop with Dr Allison Littlejohn, Student autonomy: students’ creation and re-use of learning objects, Supporting Sustainable e-Learning SSelf 2004 Forum, LTSN and HEA, June 2004

We DIDET with TikiWiki: supporting student learning with a digital repository, Thinking outside the VLE box: innovative and creative ideas for improving the student experience, 4th National VLE Conference, Bristol June 2004

E-Literacy for E-Learning, Presentation and workshop at the JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme Meeting, Santa Barbara January 2005

The DIDET Project, Presentation to CETIS Metadata Workshop, Edinburgh, March 2005

Using knowledge structures to enhance reflective practice Presentation and workshop with Prof. Allison Littlejohn, ‘Reflective learning, future thinking’ ALT Spring Conference and Research Seminar,  DublinMarch2005

Approaches to designing informal learning activities for problem based learning, Presentation and workshop with Prof. Allison Littlejohn, Designing blended learning activities, Supporting Sustainable eLearning Forum, University of Southampton, 2005 July 21st

Learning Literacies for the Digital Age. Workshop at JISC Conference 2009 – Opening Digital Doors | Edinburgh 25 March 2009

Good Intentions: improving the evidence base in support of sharing learning materials Open Educational Repositories: Share, Improve, Reuse | Edinburgh 25-26 March 2009. Keynote

series of prezi presentations http://prezi.com/vv_ynswlwwkv/llida-study/