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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Web2.0 and authorship: suggested reading

9 May 2008 – 9:20 am

Posted on behalf of Dr Celia Thompson (Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts):
Given the Information Futures Commission’s focus on teaching and learning in the Digital Age, I would like to propose that the Project Team include the paper entitled “Web 2.0 authorship: Issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity” as a recommended resource for [...]

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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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More than words

29 March 2008 – 6:10 am

When we talk about scholarly information, it’s easy to assume we mean words, lots of words, published in books and articles.
In fact, the Information Futures Commission is interested in much more than text-based materials.
For example, let’s consider the image as a piece of scholarly information. In this post, I will describe two types of ’scholarly [...]

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