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Need some current stats on distance education in the US?
As reported in the Chronicle, the Sloan Consortium has just released a report titled Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning. The study addresses the following questions: How Many Students are Learning Online? Where has the Growth in Online Learning Occurred? Why do Institutions Provide Online Offerings? What are the Prospects for Future…
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Jon Udell on remixing the library
Abstract: In an online world of small pieces loosely joined, librarians are among the most well qualified and highly motivated joiners of those pieces. Library patrons, meanwhile, are in transition. Once mainly consumers of information, they are now, on the two-way web, becoming producers too. Can libraries function not only as centers of consumption, but…
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E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
I’ve had this one sitting in my to-read for too long – time to pass it on – E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship v8 no2 includes a couple of interesting-sounding articles – Reaching Students with Facebook: Data and Best Practices and Reaching Out to Off-Campus Students via BlackboardTM: A Consortial Library’s…
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2007 Virtual Reference Symposium presentations available
Sarah points out that the presentations from the 2007 Virtual Reference Symposium are now available. Lots of stuff on the big fee services, and on IM as well. Technorati Tags: IM, VR
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Meebo Alert for Firefox
Yet another reason to use Firefox – Aaron just pointed out that there’s a new plug-in for Firefox and Meebo that will really help with the alerts – you still have to have Meebo open in a tab, or a sidebar, but you no longer have to have that tab in the foreground for fear…