Dundee College's Skills for Learning, Life and Work Course
Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 1:16PM The Learner Resources team at Dundee College have successfully launched a pilot course called Skills for Learning, Life and Work. The 'press release' information we provided:
A key part of the College’s role is to help students prepare for obtaining and retaining employment. In addition to the academic qualifications, it is important we provide them with the skills required for their future careers. The aim of this course is to provide students with a certificated qualification which demonstrates to employers that the students have the essential soft skills and personal qualities required to be successful employees through a range of ‘learning by doing’ activities.
In addition, it aims to help students make the connection between the knowledge, skills and experience gained at College and how they can demonstrate these when applying for jobs. For example, gaining the knowledge and understanding behind learning how to research a subject topic can be transferred into the workplace setting in key areas such as professional communication and IT skills.
The Skills for Learning, Life and Work course will cover the following subject areas at level SCQF 6:
- Induction to library, Hub services and resources and College systems
- Using IT Successfully
- Study Skills
- Research Skills
- Writing Styles (for business, for scientific reports, for essay writing, for communications reports)
- Referencing
- Presentation Skills
- Reflexive Writing / Personal statements
- Searching and Applying for Jobs
- Time Management and Stress Reduction
The key element of the course is information literacy supporting all academic literacies. Students must complete 10 hours of the subjects listed and then must pass a summative test for that topic. Once all ten hours are completed, a College certificate is issued.
We have been overwhelemed by uptake for the pilot groups, with 11 streams currently undertaking the course. All the materials are available under a CC licence and we are working with JISC to make this widely known.
An overview of the materials can be accessed here.
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