Category: Scholarship
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Learner Support Services in Distance Education System (A Case Study of Turkey)
This is nice to see. Any time I find an article that mentions support services for distance students the first thing I do is search through it for any mention of the importance of library services. It seems like more often than not, the library doesn’t even get mentioned, but here’s a report from Turkey…
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Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA)
I only found out I am of Croatian heritage about a year or two ago, so since then I’ve been looking for a way to get over there and explore my motherland. Earlier this year, about a week before it happened, I found out about the Libraries in the Digital Age conference that’s held in…
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Are we there yet?
Back in 1999, Judith Boettcher made a number of predictions for what the world of distance education would look like in 2007 (21st Century Teaching and Learning Patterns: What Will We See?). In the most recent issue of Campus Technology (formerly Syllabus), she takes a look at those predictions in an article called, "Are We…
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Best Practices for Helping Students Complete Online Degree Programs
Found this article as a result of one of my EBSCO Alerts: Best Practices for Helping Students Complete Online Degree Programs. By: Gaide, Susan. DistanceEducation Report, 10/15/2004, Vol. 8 Issue 20, p8, 1p; (AN 14742493) If you have a subscription to Academic Search Premier, that link should take you right in. Basically it’s a one-pager…
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A list of websites for electronic resource reviews
On RefCan-L there was recently a call for a list of sites that reviewed electronic resources, and I have just received permission to reproduce that list here. The Gale Group at http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/reference/peter/index.htm Online ISSN: 0146-5422 Publisher Information: Information Today Inc. http://www.onlineinc.com/ Research Buzz – (http://www.researchbuzz.com) Charleston Advisor — peer reviewed, subscription-based. http://www.charlestonco.com Technology Electronic Reviews…
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Go to Hawaii (or not)
The Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference is produced by University of Hawai’i Kapi`olani Community College, but it’s an online conference, so you wouldn’t actually get to go. Though I suppose there’s no reason you couldn’t go, as I’m sure they have Internet access in Hawaii and you could attend from there as easily…
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International Journal of eLiteracy
Just received an announcement about the International Journal of eLiteracy, a new peer-reviewed publication. From the Editorial of the inaugural issue: We can define “eLiteracy” simply as referring to the awarenesses, skills, understandings, and reflective approaches necessary for an individual to operate comfortably in information-rich and IT-enabled environments. Sounds right up the alley of our…
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Distance Education Clearinghouse Conference Database
Just added a link over on the right side of the page under “websites” for the Distance Education Clearinghouse Conference Database, which, well, here’s the description from the site: The Conference Database of the Distance Education Clearinghouse identifies worldwide conferences, seminars, workshops, and other events of interest to distance education and related fields. Events may…
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Survey of Library Services Offered to Walk-in Distance Users
My old boss at Nova Southeastern University is running a survey of library services and Librarian attitudes towards walk-in distance users. Would you take the time to fill it out? It needs to be completed by November 3. The increasing numbers of distance students using local public and unaffiliated academic libraries is creating staffing, budgeting,…
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2006 OCLS Conference
This was, of course, recently announced on the OFFCAMP list, but I thought a post here might make it easier to find when you (or I) go looking for the announcement in a couple months 🙂 The 2006 Off Campus Library Services Conference (12th) will be held in Savannah, Georgia. The dates of the conference…