Learner Independence SIG
e-newsletter
2006/3

News

ILC Visit
On May 3, we are organising our 5th ILC Visit. Previous visits have been to Mezyad School (Al Ain), ZU (Abu Dhabi), ZU (Dubai) and HCT-SMC. This time the visit will be to the new ILCs on the Men's and Women's Campuses of UGRU, UAEU, Al Ain. LI-SIG Co-Chair, Mairi Thomas (ILC Coordinator, UAEU) is organising the event in conjunction with Dan Blackman and Karen Campbell (ILC Coordinators, UAEU).
Participants will meet at the Men's Campus at 2pm for a tour, and then transfer to the Women's Campus for an investigation of the ILC there. This is a unique opportunity to access the Women's ILC due to prevailing security restrictions
Heather is looking forward to the visit enormously as in a previous life she was the ILC Chair on the Women's Campus in the days before independent learning gained its rightful place as central to the learning process - so she can't wait to see the new facilities!
Please pre-register soonest for this event.

LI-SIG Publication

We got our SIG Publication printed in time for the Conference! It arrived at Heather's apartment at 8pm on the night before the Conference! The volume, a TESOL Arabia Special Edition, is entitled Independent Learning Schemes: A Practical Approach. It contains 8 articles covering a range of fundamental issues and practicalities related to the establishment of ILCs, and 4 case studies describing the work involved in planning and implementing IL schemes and facilities. The third section is an A - Z of 200 ILC features, activities, tips and considerations from Access/Retrieval to Jigsaws to Organisation to Zones … Contributors to this volume are ILC practitioners from Europe, the Middle East, Far East and Australasia.
If you are interested in purchasing this publication, the cost is 40 DHS (+ postage). Please contact tailearn@yahoo.com for more information.