Presentation at the HEA workshop 'Teaching research skills to Law Students: a workshop on best practice '. This event brought together university law teachers and law librarians to discuss legal information literacy and current best practice in teaching research skills on the LLB, the role of law librarians, how research skills are taught (including on-line methods), progression through the undergraduate curriculum, whether for credit or not, and collaborations between law librarians and academic staff. This presentation is part of a related blog post that provides an overview of the event: http://bit.ly/1bIvVhh For further details of the HEA's work on teaching research methods in the Social Sciences, please see: http://bit.ly/15go0mh

1. Collaboration and flipping training:
Experiences at the University of Salford
Nicola Sales (Academic Support Librarian)
University of Salford

4. The problems
Engagement
Motivation
Achievement

5. Flipping the classroom
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http://news.icschool.co.uk

6. Participants observe
Demonstrations
Follow guided instruction
Participants perform
training activity
Feedback discussion
Flipped training
Traditional training
Trainer led
Training content studied
prior to attending training
Training session is
participant led
Problem based learning
activities
Discussion
Participants receive
support and guidance

8. Research skills delivered
Session
Topic
Contents
Lecture 2
Planning a
search
Defining topic Search
strategies
Where to
search
Seminar 1
Finding
resources in
the library
Using law
reports
Finding
legislation
Locating
textbooks
Seminar 2
Finding
resources
online
Finding legal
materials
online
Google v
databases
Evaluation of
resources
Seminar 4
OSCOLA
Referencing
Referencing
key legal
documents
Secondary
resources
International,
European,
other sources

10. Research skills delivered
Session
Topic
Contents
Lecture 2
Planning a
search
Defining topic Search
strategies
Where to
search
Seminar 1
Finding
resources in
the library
Using law
reports
Finding
legislation
Locating
textbooks
Seminar 2
Finding
resources
online
Finding legal
materials
online
Google v
databases
Evaluation of
resources
Seminar 4
OSCOLA
Referencing
Referencing
key legal
documents
Secondary
resources
International,
European,
other sources

11. Successfulness?
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12. Why was it a
success?

14. Problems

15. Future

16. Nicola Sales
n.sales@salford.ac.uk
@nicolasales
Flipping the Classroom:
Revolutionising Legal
Research Training - Legal
Information Management
Voll13 Issue 4, December
2013, 231-235