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Jeff Steely

Learning Environments: Where Space, Technology, and Culture Converge - 0 views

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    The introduction of information technologies into higher education added new dimensions to the educational enterprise and led to investigations into how the design of learning spaces affects teaching and learning. The time has come to broaden the scope of that inquiry and consider factors beyond space, including learning culture and the changing roles of instructors, students, and other people involved in teaching and learning. The effort to understand and develop effective learning environments includes more individuals and more roles than have generally been involved in the discussion about teaching and learning, and the factors at issue include, but go beyond, technology.
Jeff Steely

Mobile Learning: Context and Prospects - 0 views

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    Abstract: On March 3 and 4, 2010, the ELI community gathered for an online focus session on mobile learning. This white paper is a synthesis of the key ideas, themes, and concepts that emerged from those sessions. The white paper also includes links to relevant focus session materials, recordings, and archives. It represents a harvesting of the key elements that we as a teaching and learning community need to keep in mind as we work to integrate mobile technology into teaching and learning in higher education. It is clear that while the application of mobile technology to learning is just now getting under way, the potential is enormous and we can expect that the rate of development will be very rapid indeed.
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Organizing the liaison role: a concept map (Judith E. Pasek) - 0 views

  • Building relationships with STEM faculty and students therefore requires an active outreach approach rather than simply waiting for individuals to contact librarians.
  • meeting faculty informally and face-to-face at departmental functions is a key outreach strategy, and that outreach techniques need to be tailored to fit the local academic community, adapted for departmental variation.
  • Being visible means creating opportunities for communication by being present where your “customers” (i.e., faculty and students) are located
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  • variety of options for initiating interactions with potential customers
  • Being relevant requires currency and an understanding of the subject matter of interest to the customer.
  • keeping current with rapid changes in technology, research directions, curriculum offerings, and scholarly trends
  • For student engagement, it means making an effort to connect to their experiences and interests to add meaning and put learning processes into context.
  • Being useful means matching resources and information to the purpose (e.g., research, coursework) and needs of the customer
  • High-quality service also involves anticipating needs and being proactive in providing services
  • Faculty are pressed for time, so offering services that can save them time can win their respect and support.
  • Timeliness means being responsive and prompt in answering questions and scheduling consultations. It also means providing services at the point of need, timing delivery to when information and services are most needed or effective.
  • The four elements of proactive customer service—visibility, relevance, usefulness, and timeliness—are interrelated and of equal importance in the implementation of liaison services.
  • The liaison concept map is meant to be a starting point for organizing and planning activities that facilitate greater connections with academic faculty and students.
  • Becoming an effective liaison librarian in today’s environment involves moving from a role peripheral to academic research and teaching, to a more integral and integrated presence within departments and programs
  • Faculty satisfaction with library liaisons increases when they have recent and direct communication, they know the name of their assigned liaison librarian, and they receive more types of services.4
  • Engaging faculty and building long-term relationships can be enhanced by shifting focus to showing interest in their research, offering newer research services (e.g., data management and repository support), and identifying opportunities for partnership.
  • While developing relationships with individual faculty members is essential, the process of making initial contacts can be orchestrated at the departmental level.
  • Building awareness of library services is a necessary first step to engagement, as faculty tend not to view librarians as instructors or research consultants
  • Keeping up with trends and adding to the liaison librarian toolkit are essential to remaining relevant and effective
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    concept map for thinking about the various pieces of the liaison librarian role, focusing on visibility, relevance, usefulness, and timeliness. used for conversation with team of librarians to take a higher altitude view of what we're trying to accomplish and then specifically how we go about doing that
Jeff Steely

Studio Classroom: Designing Collaborative Learning Spaces -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    "What does the "classroom of the future" look like? In contrast to the traditional lecture-oriented room, this increasingly popular kind of space, known as a "studio classroom," emphasizes group learning and collaboration. But designers might not always get it right. AV expert Michael Leiboff shares 14 distinct characteristics of a successful studio classroom design."
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    Nothing earth-shatteringly original here, but a good summary of basic ideas for a studio learning environment.
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This article relates to… - chroniclevitae.com - 1 views

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    "It's also not the only way to build institutional unity. What if instead of devoting time and resources to making analogies about customer service, we put learning first? What if the conversations, the trainings, the memos, and even the job descriptions emphasized this simple question: How does what I do make this a better place for students to learn and develop?"
Jeff Steely

Academic Commons - 0 views

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    "a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals interested in two interlocking questions: how do creative uses of new technology and networked information support the current project of liberal education, and, perhaps more interestingly, how do they force us to re-think what it means to be liberally educated?"
Jeff Steely

Understanding Library Impacts on student learning | In the Library with the Lead Pipe - 0 views

  • We should focus on the ‘high-impact’ activities in which faculty expect students to demonstrate their best work. Capstone experiences and upper level coursework within the academic major seem to fit the bill for four year institutions.
  • information behaviors vary by academic major as well? Our assessment tools should be sensitive to these differences.
Jeff Steely

Critical Assets: Academic Libraries, a View from the Administration Building - 5/1/2010... - 0 views

  • libraries should support learning that involves collaboration—i.e., getting students to spend time talking to one another in spaces in the library."
  • reinvest in a traditional position, the subject librarian
  • help scholars in the prepublication phase
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  • not particularly concerned about the expense of maintaining libraries. Funding libraries was perceived as the cost of being part of higher education. CAOs were more interested in outcomes—how much were the libraries being used? How central were they to the mission of the institution? In what ways did they enhance the reputation of the college or university?
Jeff Steely

http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/files/2010/01/sca_dcquarterly_01_dec09-final.pdf - 0 views

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    Interesting new publication - see the article on augmented reality, for example
Jeff Steely

Humanizing Academic Citation - Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Practical approach!
Jeff Steely

CURQuarterly : Scaffolding the Development of Students' Research Skills for Capstone Ex... - 0 views

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    Interesting article. UNLV Libraries are engaged in similar curricular mapping work.
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