September 4, 2009 – 2:49 pm
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The rigorous 2009 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities puts Melbourne at No. 51 in the world (up from 58 in 2008 and 64 in 2007) and No. 4 in the Asia–Pacific region (No. 5 in 2008).
This ranking, by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), evaluates and ranks the [...]
September 4, 2009 – 2:09 pm
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An academic revolution has taken place in higher education in the past half century
marked by transformations unprecedented in scope and diversity. Comprehending
this ongoing and dynamic process while being in the midst of it is not an easy task.
Arguably, the developments of the recent past are at least as dramatic as those in the
19th century when [...]
August 18, 2009 – 11:06 am
http://library.nyu.edu/about/Video_Use_in_Higher_Education.pdf
New York University Libraries, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) and Intelligent Television embarked on a study to investigate video use across university departments and disciplines. The Video Use and Higher Education Project interviewed 45 faculty in 18 disciplines and departments across 20 institutions about the ways they use video now; where their video use is [...]
August 11, 2009 – 2:55 pm
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The final report from the Eduserv-funded ‘Investigation into the management of web content in Higher Education Institutions’ by the Social Issues Research Centre is now available for download.
Some of the key findings from the report include:
Increasing demands upon web teams are not always matched by the necessary resources – there was a strong feeling [...]
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Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released a new guide on outreach to scholarly society leaders to assist libraries in developing positive, supportive relationships with leaders, editors, and members of academic scholarly societies affiliated with their institutions. It will support development of faculty outreach programs at ARL member libraries by offering strategy and [...]
nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/rolesandresponsibilitiesreport.aspx
This project undertook a landscape study to identify, map and classify roles, competencies and relationships of major actors in each of the high level domain areas identified as part of the JISC-funded High Level Domain Architectures2 project. This study supplemented the data held within this emerging domain tool and contributes to the future development of [...]
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This study was commissioned to assess current awareness, practice and issues relating to the integration of technology into institutional strategies in UK higher education.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/slrmfinalreport.aspx
This study investigated the ways in which institutions manage their relationships with students, to provide a picture of the current landscape of the different strands of activities, approaches and use of ICT systems throughout the full student lifecycle. The report explores both UK further (FE) and higher education (HE) sectors and international experiences in this [...]
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Learning Literacies for the Digital Age was a research study aiming to find out what literacies learners require and what UK HE and FE institutions are doing to support them. The study informs JISC and the wider UK FE and HE communities by providing a better understanding of learning literacies, how they are evolving, how [...]
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The overall aim of this project was to gather up to date information on changing staff roles, relationships and associated skills brought about by the impact of the adoption of new technologies within UK FE and HE. The focus was not on information skills or skills for harnessing technology per se, but on the impact [...]
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