Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Academic writing (1)
- CanIStreamIt? (1)
- Culture (1)
- Education, Higher (1)
- Ethics (1)
-
- Information literacy (1)
- Library & Information Science (1)
- Library orientation (1)
- Mobile Devices and Applications (1)
- MovieClips (1)
- Multimedia (1)
- Multimedia Search (1)
- Plagiarism (1)
- Popular Culture and Research (1)
- Qatar (1)
- Research (1)
- Search (1)
- TEDEd (1)
- Teaching (1)
- Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts in Qatar (1)
- Web Tools and Technologies (1)
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Information Literacy
Addressing Academic Integrity: Perspectives From Virginia Commonwealth University In Qatar, Nancy E. Fawley
Addressing Academic Integrity: Perspectives From Virginia Commonwealth University In Qatar, Nancy E. Fawley
Nancy Fawley
Understanding the cultural aspects that affect a student’s ability to appropriately use resources is important in developing outreach and instruction in multicultural settings. Differences in educational philosophies, students’ previous scholastic training and cultural differences in individual motivation are all factors that may affect a freshman’s ability to understand an American university’s idea of academic integrity and can inadvertently cause problems where independent work and critical thinking are required. At Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCU Qatar), a branch campus of the American university in the Middle East, a special class on academic integrity and ethical behavior was integrated into the …
Search, Share, & Embed: Multimedia Resources For Popular Culture Research, Julie A. Decesare
Search, Share, & Embed: Multimedia Resources For Popular Culture Research, Julie A. Decesare
Julie A DeCesare
The Internet has provided a wealth of multimedia and video content to teachers, students, and researchers. It is saturated by user-created materials (YouTube, Vimeo), digitized or born digital special collections by non-profit institutions (ArtBabble, Arkive, Duke AdViews), educational distributors and producers (Learner.org, WGBH), for-fee providers of on-demand streaming media (NetFlix, HuluPlus, Amazon Instant), and library database vendors (Swank Digital, Alexander St. Press) -- and more. Educators are often challenged by searching for and access to digitized feature film content. Copyright is always a consideration, but also just the ability to find the materials in the format they need, can be …
Digital Leisure For Development: Rethinking New Media Practices From The Global South, Payal Arora, N. Rangaswamy
Digital Leisure For Development: Rethinking New Media Practices From The Global South, Payal Arora, N. Rangaswamy
Payal Arora
No abstract provided.
Situating The Customer: The Genealogy Of Customer Language In Libraries, Susan Maret, Ben Eagle
Situating The Customer: The Genealogy Of Customer Language In Libraries, Susan Maret, Ben Eagle
Susan Maret
By way of Michel Foucault’s genealogical method, in this article we hope to advance discussion within Library and Information Science (LIS) of customer language and “customer-driven librarianship,” or those themes and practices “that both responds to and reinforces an economic vision of librarianship at its base, culminating in the ‘customer’ concept” (Buschman, 2003, p. 110).