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Proposals for action to Opening the Book

To construct a follow-up email that is automatically delivered to Trainees some time after they have completed the course. This short questionnaire would ask them what impact the course had on their work and what progress they made with the one thing they said that they would do as a result of taking it. It might also seek the Trainee’s view of the most important memory or impact of the course on them in retrospect. Such a question might be: If there’s one thing I learned… or ‘One thing a borrower noticed/said to me… or one thing that’s changed…. This might allow co-ordinators to collect evidence of change in a library as a direct result of the course.
That OTB collects from co-ordinators their own anecdotal evidence of trainee satisfaction and the general impact of the course and post this on the Branching Out site so everyone can refer to it.
That OTB consider whether devising another borrower interview task for Module 7 would allow the trainee to collect some evidence of change or effect or alternatively to strengthen the way that the evidence from an observation in module 7 is recorded by the Trainee.
That OTB organise a series of regional meetings for co-ordinators to share specific work in order to maintain the quality of learning and supervision.