Category Archives: online

Towards an integrated ‘knowledge environment’

10 July 2008 – 6:39 am

Staff at Cornell and Bates (both in the US) are in the early stages of a collaborative project, looking into how they might provide a seamlessly integrated knowledge environment (IKE) for their students, alumni, academic and professional staff, and other constituencies of their respective institutions.
In particular, the project aims to:
“Envision, identify, and promote integrated online [...]

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The future according to…

12 June 2008 – 6:40 am

Some of our leading suppliers of technology and books visited the Melbourne University campus last month to share their thoughts about the next 10 years.
Videos are now available on the Information Futures web site — follow the links below. Each presentation is 20-30 minutes long.
Blackboard’s Regional Manager, Tony Macguire, talked about the changing expectations and [...]

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Learning new information literacy skills

24 April 2008 – 6:44 am

Henry Jenkins (MIT) and Howard Gardner (Harvard) are each leading projects investigating how to teach information literacy skills to the current generation of university students.
The New Media Literacies project at MIT takes what we might call an ‘embedded’ approach to teaching information literacy:
“How does digital copying relate to legacy notions of property? What do [...]

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Open Access and the privacy tradeoff

23 February 2008 – 6:45 am

Writing for Inside Higher Ed, librarian and professor Barbara Fister examines the trade-offs we make when signing up for that new Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn account.
When you participate in such online communities, you give up some of your right to privacy and some aspects of control over the intellectual property you create in that environment. [...]

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Literacy, old and new

16 February 2008 – 6:54 am

Last year the USA’s National Endowment for the Arts released a study called To Read or Not To Read: a question of national consequence. NEA chair Dana Gioia said, “This study shows the startling declines, in how much and how well Americans read, that are adversely affecting this country’s culture, economy, and civic life as [...]

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