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Library Skills: live online training guide

Guidance, best practices and suggestions on how to design and deliver live online library skills training.

Lesson design: Introduction

This guidance, and the accompanying lesson plan templates, should be used when designing a teaching session in order to support effective, engaging teaching, consistency in approach across Library Services and to facilitate easy sharing and replicable delivery of sessions.

In 2022 / 2023 UCL's education operating model promotes in person, on campus teaching as the default for all programmes. We therefore anticipate the majority of teaching in support of academic programmes to take place face to face, although space requirements may be a barrier. Face to face teaching is to be supplemented and enriched by asynchronous materials and activities. The UCL Connected Learning Baseline provides guidance on the minimum expectations for structuring and designing asynchronous resources and activities in Moodle to support in-person teaching. 

For our scheduled programme of bookable sessions, most of which are also offered as part of UCL's Researcher Development Programme, we aim to offer a blended programme with approximately 70% of training sessions delivered online and 30% face to face.

The guidance on the following pages was put together to support live online teaching delivery, but many of the principles are also relevant to face to face teaching.