Category Archives for Education & Learning
Breakout Session: How Networking on Campus Can Increase Copyright Education. Presented by Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Director of Center for the Advancement of the Digital Scholarship (CADS), Kansas State University Library and Rachel Miles, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Kansas State University Library.
As online academic interactions continue to become more complex in the digital age, interaction with online copyrighted content inevitably increases. As a result, university faculty, researchers, students, and staff have a responsibility to understand how to legally reuse content to … Continue reading
What does a library accessibility specialist do? How a new role advances accessibility through education and advocacy
Across North America, academic librarians are quietly converting print materials into accessible files, testing databases for usability, and applying principles of universal design to services, spaces, and instruction. Most of us do this work under unassuming job titles like director … Continue reading
Library self-disruption: The key to surviving and thriving
Disruption and change, especially in the area of technology, continue to have a major impact on society. The higher education community is certainly not immune to these trends. In this article, the authors, the library dean and a professor of … Continue reading
NTU Singapore launches new learning hub with 56 smart classrooms
The ARC is equipped with the latest technologies to support the flipped classroom pedagogy, wherein students learn the course content online before class and the face time with professors and classmates is devoted to collaborative learning. Read More
The smart campus: a future for our universities?
What is the ‘smart campus’? What might it be like to study, teach, research or work in one? How might learning spaces research, educational data, estate management practices, smart devices and artificial intelligence converge to shape the direction of our … Continue reading
Going digital: Challenges and opportunities in transforming face to face ALL workshops into online versions
This paper reports on the experience of transforming the face-to-face workshop ‘Writing a Literature Review’ (WLR) into an online version. This genrebased pedagogy workshop guides HDR students through the process of finding, synthesising and evaluating sources and structuring this content … Continue reading
Virtual reality content for higher education curriculum
Virtual Reality content has quickly become embedded into popular culture and everyday purposes. Interaction within a virtual environment has enormous possibilities for a number of different industries such as business, healthcare, entertainment, architecture, engineering and all levels of education. This … Continue reading
Collaboration in the Midst of Change: Growing Librarian-Archivist Partnerships for Engaging New Students and Faculty
This article identifies common themes in library and archive instruction and key elements of engaging first-year faculty and their students in becoming long-term patrons, in the midst of Georgia Tech’s Library Next initiative, a re-imagining of the twenty-first century library … Continue reading
Desire to Listen: One Learning Management System-Based Solution to Providing Copyright Compliant Streaming Audio Reserves
In 2008, the Performing Arts Librarian and the Bierce Library Course Reserves Manager at the Bierce Library at the University of Akron were charged by library administration to explore possible solutions for providing online media reserves in a manner compliant … Continue reading
Information Literacy in the Digital Age: Myths and Principles of Digital Literacy
Librarians have traditionally served as the champions of information literacy, adopting it as a core principle of the profession and creating a movement that tries to facilitate fair, equal access to knowledge and its creation. There are plenty of publications … Continue reading