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An Initiative to Share Digital Repository Services for Liberal Arts Colleges

drupal — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:04:18 -0600

In January 2007, 13 geographically separated liberal arts colleges joined with the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and the Longsight Group on an initiative for shared, managed, institutional repository services. The resulting collaboration promises to dramatically lower the barrier for entry into an emerging technology for smaller colleges.

Course Views: A Scalable Project to Connect Students to Library Resources

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:40 -0500

Libraries provide access to a wealth of information resources for students to learn outside the classroom. Unfortunately, these resources are not typically organized around student needs. We will describe a project in development to support student learning by providing course-centric views of library resources for all courses taught at North Carolina State University.

Interactive Services on Mobile Devices for Higher Education

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:40 -0500

UNCW has begun a new initiative to develop and test a wide range of information services accessible through mobile devices. This session will compare the relative costs and advantages of applications based on SMS text messaging, WAP browsers, and Java MIDlets as well as the structuring of the relationship between the faculty start-up and the institution to develop and pursue the resulting initiatives.

Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:39 -0500

The structure of the traditional term paper can limit its educational value. To make the assignment more meaningful, students published their papers in Wikipedia. This session will examine how publishing for a large online community motivated students to do better work and deal with issues of voice, knowledge, and community.

Building a Distributed Knowledge Network: National and International Perspectives

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:48 -0500

During the past seven years, in partnership with various organizations and institutions, the Carnegie Foundation has helped document and share knowledge in effective educational practices at many levels. This presentation will discuss what it takes to create a large-scale distributed knowledge network to further expand and advance this collective effort.

Content Catastrophe: The Gap Between Textbooks and Global Real-Time Knowledge Acquisition

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:51 -0500

Teaching from a textbook is based on the premises that course materials are static and learning experiences can be standardized. In learner-centered environments in an ever-changing world, content needs to be dynamically controlled by instructors and students. The presenters will use case studies to demonstrate how this has been accomplished in courses on globalization, contemporary media, and international security.

Finding Scholarship: Google Scholar on College and University Library Web Sites

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:44 -0500

This study examined the incidence and visibility of Google Scholar on ARL and Oberlin Group college library Web sites to see if, where, and how it appeared. Results will reveal the level of integration of Google Scholar in university and college library Web sites, including any differences between them and effective representations.

The Real At-Risk E-Content: University Web Resources

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:51 -0500

OCLC has developed open-source software to efficiently manage the process of archiving Web documents, Web pages, and entire Web sites in support of an institution's work to record its history as represented on the Web. This presentation will provide an overview of the tools and a case study on their use at UIUC.

Time, Space, and History

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:41 -0500

In everything from stock market reports to brain scans, we increasingly use computers to see patterns that would otherwise remain invisible. But history, and the humanities in general, have been little touched by this widespread change in perception--and are the poorer for it. This lecture will suggest how we might begin to change that situation.

Making the Most of What We've Got: Managing Digital Content from Online Courses

drupal — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:16:01 -0500

A college initiative to enrich 400 online courses with digital library articles, graphics, multimedia learning objects, and Web links created reusability and maintenance challenges. This presentation will describe the database system and processes developed by faculty, librarians, and instructional technologists to manage content and support reusability across courses.