A weekend in Singapore Michelle Mahoney

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A weekend in SingaporeMichelle Mahoney
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Offshore programs run by the UWA Graduate School
of Management
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• Singapore DBA, MBA, Bachelor of Commerce
• Manila MBA
• Jakarta - MBA

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The Singapore partnership the GSM and PSB
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The course Doctorate of Business Administration
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• GSM staff regularly travel to
• Singapore
• The Library began presenting the weekend seminar
  in 2000
• GSM pays for costs of travel and the library
  staff members time.

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Team teaching
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• Teaching with GSM staff member
• Long established relationship
• Adds credibility

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Outcomes of the session

• Students are aware of services available in
  Singapore
• Have a basic knowledge of electronic databases in
  the area of business and how to search them

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Outcomes

• Understand the importance of good searching
• Have a working knowledge of managing references
  using Endnote

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Teaching for an hour versus teaching for a day
and a half

• Maintaining interest is important
• Need to consciously give tasks where they self
  instruct
• Need plenty of interesting exercises and
  activities

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Creating independent researchers

• Singapore students will need to display
  resourcefulness and a capacity to handle research
  problems on their own
• The seminar gives the opportunity for real world
  issues and mistakes to occur and be
  troubleshooted.

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Topics and Resources covered

• The Big Picture
• The Reference Service
• Getting journal articles and book chapters
• Document Delivery
• Starting a Literature Review
• Advanced searching on a variety of databases
• Finding Theses

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Nature of the students
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• Paying fee for course
• Highly motivated
• Curious about the differences of doing the course
  in Singapore to Perth
• Extensive commercial experience
• Good computer skills
• Like Crawley campus students Singapore students
  will be accessing resources from home and office

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Preparation, preparation, preparation
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• Go over lesson plan
• Organise folders, notes and publications for
  travel to Singapore
• Back up copies of your presentations on CD-ROM

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Course notes and handouts need to be
comprehensive and professional - this takes time
and care
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Challenges IT and others
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Computer lab facilities

• In the past you were your own IT support
• Strange room, strange set up
• Today excellent rooms
• Everything installed, logins organised, IT person
  available

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More challenges

• Students use CygNET online remotely
• Use this approach when teaching them
• Using unfamiliar equipment and setup
• Events out of your control

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This is the only shot you get and it is
expensive
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The ongoing relationship and how to maintain it
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• Students need support from Perth
• A relationship is established over the weekend
• Important to maintain this relationship via email
  and phone.
• These are research students treat them as you
  would Crawley Campus students

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Types of follow-up

• Answering emails how to use databases, remote
  access
• Accessing our collection providing copies of
  articles
• Importance of full text databases for providing
  access to resources

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