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Using Electronic Resources To Enhance Teaching And Learning, Wendy Abbott, Peta J. Hopkins
Using Electronic Resources To Enhance Teaching And Learning, Wendy Abbott, Peta J. Hopkins
Wendy Abbott
This is a powerpoint presentation from a Teaching and Learning Seminar for Bond University academic staff. The presentation covers the use of electronic resources provided by the Library and how to keep up to date using alerting services by email and rss feeds.
The Ethnographic Experience: Experiential Learning Via Ethnographic Practice, Rebecca Hovey
The Ethnographic Experience: Experiential Learning Via Ethnographic Practice, Rebecca Hovey
Rebecca Hovey
Ethnography and experiential learning share assumptions on the primacy of everyday lived experience for learning culture. This presentation offers perspectives on ethnography as pedagogy for cultural learning through demonstration of ethnographic inquiry, discussion of pre-departure preparation for field work, and faculty reflections on students’ experiential learning.
Institutional And International Community Development: World Learning/Sit Case Study, Rebecca Hovey
Institutional And International Community Development: World Learning/Sit Case Study, Rebecca Hovey
Rebecca Hovey
In this workshop we posed the question: How to engage with/build partnerships or solidarity with communities in Global Service-Learning? This case study describes SIT Study Abroad programs as a form of community-based education: integrating community members as mentors, educators and part of the local “faculty”. This has profound implications in terms of academic content, knowledge generation, who benefits from the projects and accumulated knowledge gained from field service, and the global citizen responsibilities of the home university in terms of fair intellectual property and labor.
Wrangling A Digital Collection Into Existence: The Boise State Western Writers Series Digital Editions, Rick A. Stoddart
Wrangling A Digital Collection Into Existence: The Boise State Western Writers Series Digital Editions, Rick A. Stoddart
Rick A Stoddart
Wrangling a Digital Collection into Existence: The Boise State Western Writers Series Digital Editions. The distance between identifying an opportunity to implement a digital collection and actually getting it off the ground and onto the web is about as wide as the Grand Canyon. Learn about the trials, tribulations, and tears experienced in willing the Western Writers Series Digital Editions into an online existence. Navigating a new digital collection between multiple departments, server upgrades, and quirks in online hosting platforms is a hair-pulling thrill-ride! The audience will come away with a sense of what obstacles to look for and anticipate …
Academic Librarian Integration Into Teacher Education Distance Learning Programs, Brenna Helmstutler
Academic Librarian Integration Into Teacher Education Distance Learning Programs, Brenna Helmstutler
Brenna Helmstutler
Having convenient, instant access to electronic library resources in academia is excellent as research can be conducted literally anywhere and at anytime; however, a level of user self-direction is required for optimal results, creating the need for librarian interaction to guide the user towards acquiring this self-direction most effectively. As more institutions add online degree programs, it is essential that librarians are integrated within so that participating students have access to the same (or at least, equivalent) library resources and services as those who are on campus, and also develop sound research skills for information literacy acquisition. Although librarians have …