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This article traces the evolution of the concept of portfolio from the Renaissance to the present day. Over time the meaning of portfolio has evolved from its origins as a case for holding loose papers to other contexts such as finance, government and education. Portfolios have evolved from paper to electronic, from local networks to the world wide web. The decade from 2000-2010 was a period when technology became part of mainstream society and educational technology become part of mainstream higher education, and portfolios spread around the world. A shift in focus has occurred in eportfolio research and practice in the last decade, there has been more emphasis on pedagogy and student learning and less focus on digital technology as it has become ubiquitous. One of the key takeaways from the story of eportfolio adoption is that educators and institutions should adopt a critical perspective to new educational technologies and approaches. Finally, the history of portfolio in higher education shows that the higher education system will continue to gradually evolve, incorporating concepts, technology and approaches that are compatible rather than transformative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The library is not only a storehouse of knowledge; it is also an essential component of the teaching and learning process of an academic Institute. It is a well-established truth that the Library is the center of any educational setting. While classroom teaching offers a glimpse of knowledge, the libraries disseminate a vast variety of knowledge, which is required to attain mental heights. Libraries supplement the educational work of classrooms and lift forward the ideals of education. The use of existing knowledge is as important as the discovery of new knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the various services provided by the B. C. Roy Memorial Library of IIM Calcutta, Kolkata, W.B. Library as the learning resource centre and occupies a unique place in the academic and research activities of the Institute. Over time, due to the impact of Information Technology, drastic changes have been taken place in terms of collection, organization, and the way and nature of service it provides. It is seen the usage of library resources has been increased manifolds after implementing ITbased services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the American Optometric Association's first Department of Education and the launch of its first distance learning program. This article traces the evolution of the AOA's distance continuing education strategy over the last century, highlighting three generations of educational technology and modes of delivery the association has employed: textual materials by mail, audiovisual media through library loan, and interactive digital modules over the world wide web. The author also explores the relationship between warfare and the development of educational technology and pedagogy at each stage of development and introduces the reader to the AOA's newest iteration of its distance learning web portal, EyeLearn.™ [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Having launched a pilot program of embedding librarians in faculty Blackboard courses, a team of university regional campus librarians reviewed their library services to faculty teaching online, off-campus, and traditional courses, and returned for Round 2. Just as the library services offered in this collaborative effort were taking off, conditions worsened. A storm of staff reductions, budget cuts, and administrative reorganization hit. Despite the climate of uncertainty and challenges, the embedded librarians persevered as they are convinced of the value of collaborating with faculty in Blackboard as active academic research consultants to further students' information literacy skills. Project Information Literacy's findings validate this strategic solution. Consequently, the embedded librarians assessed users and implemented sustaining practices to the program to maximize its impact. Moving in the right direction is essential and doable, no matter the difficulties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rather than create a collection solely to support distance learners, libraries should consider the needs of all customers when developing a digital library. The acceptance of digital libraries is dependant upon the conversion of resources to an electronic format that is easy to use and is fully searchable. While electronic journals are widely accepted by most academic library customers, the delivery of online books has had a very different acceptance rate. Rather than support the sequential reading of books, electronic books are commonly used to find information and can be particularly well-suited for reference purposes. This article will provide insight into the history of e-book models and evaluate the usage statistics of a large electronic book collection in an academic library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper aims to investigate the generation and management of scholarly content at universities in Nigeria using quantitative and qualitative approaches with a total of 120 academic staff from the three universities randomly selected for the study. The study found that the majority of the academic departments had no academic journals, while the academics generated just two out of 12 scholarly contents in their scholarly activities. It was discovered that neither the universities nor the academic departments had digital archives for the effective preservation and management of scholarly content. The study revealed the challenges of scholarly content generation and management to include the absence of institutional repositories and reliable institutional websites owing to poor infrastructure. The contribution of this paper is that it investigated the generation and management of scholarly content at universities in Kano State, Nigeria, and no such study exists in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose Technologies for teaching abound, but many of them are proprietary systems and software that require institutional and individual subscriptions for use. Instructors and librarians in higher education have open source and free options for many types of teaching technologies. While some of these technologies are free to users, open source goes beyond that and makes the source code that runs it available as well. These provide more options to enhance teaching.Design/methodology/approach This paper will provide an overview of the open source landscape and evaluate free and open source technologies of potential use in the college or university classroom.Findings The paper found a number of free and open source tools appropriate for teaching and learning in higher education. These tools may possibly generate savings over proprietary tools, but could have other costs such as additional learning investment or require hosting. Additionally, free and open source technologies provide students with knowledge about tools that they can continue to access after graduation. Libraries have a role in connecting their constituencies to these tools.Originality/value The paper provides descriptive information about a variety of tools for teaching and learning in higher education, as well as examples from the literature of how the tools might be integrated into the classroom and into library instruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher education is confronting a fundamental change. The transition from print on paper to digital and electronic technologies is transforming instruction, scholarly communication, and the storage and preservation of knowledge. What is required is not the automation of old systems, but the restructuring of institutions. The drive for autonomy, needed for effective scholarship, and the push for standardization, needed to assure easy and open access to information, will create conflicts difficult to resolve. Universities must find new ways of funding and financing information services and new staffing patterns if they are to continue as effective learning and research centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – This paper aims to extend the use of the technology acceptance model (TAM) to faculty acceptance of e-books at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in the Sultanate of Oman. Electronic books (e-books) are becoming increasingly important in society in general and among academic faculty, concomitant with the growth of portable electronic devices that facilitate the reading of e-books. Design/methodology/approach – The effects of language and personal characteristics (gender, age and field of study) in relation to perceived usefulness, perceived ease-of-use and usage of e-books for academic work among respondents are examined using data derived from a survey of 332 faculty members at SQU. Findings – Findings were that participants who perceived that electronic books were easier to use also tended to be those who used them more; younger male faculty whose first language was Arabic tended to have higher levels of usage than females, older faculty or faculty whose first language was not Arabic. Faculty in the social sciences and the life and health sciences tended to have lower levels of usage behaviour than those in the arts and humanities, business or law or physical sciences or engineering. Practical implications – Implications are that e-book acceptance among faculty at SQU is similar to that of faculty in Western universities and that the TAM is a relatively good predictor of e-book usage regardless of geographical location. Originality/value – The value of the present study is that identification of factors affecting scholars’ e-book usage behaviours may provide library managers with a better understanding of the way in which they can support faculty. Further, by focusing on e-book adoption by faculty in a non-Western country, results of the research help to fill a gap on an under-researched population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we examine the changing status of the course reader as an instructional technology in higher education. We assess the advantages of simply providing students bibliographic entries for assigned readings instead of readers, and we evaluate this alternative in regards to intellectual property and fair use issues focusing on Cambridge University Press v. Becker (). A study of 110 course readers showed that 45 % of the readings are freely available either through the university library or open access sources. Finally, we review a number of pedagogical benefits to having students work directly with scholarship within a dynamically hyperlinked environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New technology allows for and supports new workflow methodologies in academia and, more specifically, the Library world, from the digitization of analog materials for remote patron access to social media and the tagging of resources in the Library catalog. Data visualization and mobile media add an interesting wrinkle to this environment. But can these means and tools revolutionize the way that professionals provide intellectual access to, in this case, archival collections? We are introducing 20 undergraduate students to an unprocessed Congressional collection and asking them to create a finding aid for it. Employing a tablet, we want them to track and represent relationships graphically as part on an interdisciplinary class taught by a Political Scientist and a Librarian. Will the Archival finding aid of the future not be an EAD-encoded electronic document, but an interactive "picture" generated by Open Source software? And, more importantly, will these students not only make and depict connections within the collection, but will they draw from these connections a well reasoned research paper linking the raw material to broader issues, stories, and people in American social and political history? Beats me. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides responses to five copyright scenarios—institutional pricing, the face-to-face classroom, video copying and replacement, film clips and streaming video—that are frequently faced by librarians who manage and acquire media. Copyright is a particularly complex area for librarians who work with media. Frequently, librarians are confused about the legality of certain uses of media. This confusion is magnified when vendors sell licenses to librarians when they are not necessary. The Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002 is a convoluted law that many view as a restriction of fair use rights. Fair use is a copyright exception that can be applied to all of the exclusive rights of copyright including public performances and digital transmissions. This article also suggests that behavior affects how we interpret the law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the challenges facing Nigerian university libraries in meeting users' service demands in the 21st century and the role of university administrators in assisting them in this regard. It identifies these challenges as non-application of technology to service delivery, increase in student intake with its attendant effect on the available limited resources, inefficient reference service, and competition from other service providers. The article recommends amongst others that knowledge and application of technology in service delivery in libraries is unavoidable in this century, quality service delivery in terms of selection and acquisition of appropriate materials should not be taken lightly, knowledge of human beings and human relationship is important, especially in reference service, library user education should be undertaken by library staff staff training should be a continuous exercise, and university libraries should transform themselves into one-stop shopping centres for all in formation retrievals in the face of competition. The article concludes with lessons for Nigerian university administrators and advises that the administrators should fund the university libraries adequately and allow the university librarians to administer the fund without undue interference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Libraries will never have comprehensive collections in today's publishing and media landscape. While the ability of searchers to discover content via metadata continues to improve by leaps and bounds, retrieval is rapidly losing ground. Libraries are collecting less, interlibrary loan is less effective today than in the 20th century, and searchers are looking for things that have never been collected by libraries. Reference services need to address the direct-to-consumer download market emerging outside their traditional sphere of influence. Sometimes the best answer to a reference question is "you can buy it here." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While much has been written on individual digital project planning, little has been discussed in the area of collaborative digital projects, especially at the college library level. The aim of this article is to examine a variety of collaborative solutions that have been implemented by Franklin and Marshall College at the institutional, local, regional, and national levels. With the assistance of an analytical questionnaire, readers will learn to evaluate their college library collections for successful digitization and identify collaborative opportunities at various levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose - To identify levels of awareness and patterns of usage of electronic books by scholars in the humanities. Design/methodology/approach - A survey of the University of Denver community assessed knowledge about and usage of electronic books. The results for humanists are presented here. Findings - Scholars in the humanities have a higher level of awareness of e-books than their colleagues across campus but use e-books at the same rate. Their patterns of use are different, with humanists using less of the e-book than do other groups. Humanists still prefer printed books to electronic texts at a higher rate than do other groups and care less about added features, such as searchability, than they do about content. Originality/value - Humanists conduct research differently than do most other scholars, using the library catalog and browsing as primary means of finding information, and valuing the book more than other resources. No previous research has assessed whether humanists have similarly unique patterns of usage for electronic books. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the electronic book usage in public libraries of Great Britain. The author reports on one aspect of a Laser Foundation-funded research project that tested different models of e-book delivery and offered guide- lines for developing e-book collections in public libraries. Public library provision of e-book software and hardware devices has not become widespread, although there has been a degree of experimentation in e-book collection development. One of the most important challenges when implementing any new service or collection, especially one as fraught as e-books with technical and cultural issues, is creating an enthusiastic staff base. The staff involved with e-book collections proved to be enthusiastic and willing to negotiate the challenges of new technology, and proved especially creative in seeking out opportunities for including different types of users in the project. The questionnaire results demonstrate that most enjoyed trialing e-books even where users noted serious concerns about the hardware being used, generally in regard to screen size and battery life.

The objectives of this paper are: (i) to illustrate the use of e-books by health studies students at a college of higher education; (ii) to provide a demonstration of how e-books may be facilitated by library and information services staff working across the health and academic sectors; (iii) to comment upon the experiences of health studies students, in using e-books. A focus group of 10 student midwives was used to gain insight into how e-books may be used in an academic context for health professionals. The findings of the student midwives’ focus group are reported and discussed. In this instance, the student midwives were encouraged to use e-books as part of a structured information skills programme. The paper concentrates on how the e-books were used within this context and addresses the potential benefits and disadvantages from a student perspective. The results provide evidence of a largely positive experience of using e-books as an electronic information resource. The focus group reveals many benefits and advantages in the facilitation and use of e-books, as well as addressing areas for development. It is concluded that e-books have a place in health library and information resources, but further development of e-books and e-book collections is required and subsequent investigation into their most effective use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the effectiveness of the teaching and learning at the Open University in Great Britain. Teaching methods used; Diversity of the courses offered; Integration of business, education, and health, and social welfare in the courses; Need to continue to be in vanguard of pedagogical thinking and practice.

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This article analyses the required content and strategies of information and communications technology (ICT) training for teachers in terms of learning to know, learning to do, learning to live with each other and with others, and learning to be. We conclude that the fast-changing role and nature of ICT in education, combined with the low level of penetration of ICT into present educational practices, requires a strategy that includes three aspects. These aspects are the training of students within teacher training institutions, the high-level implementation of ICT in schools as a joint effort by students, schools and teacher training institutions, and the formation of cooperating communities of practice to ensure the continued flow of emerging knowledge and practices to the educational field. Special attention should be given to unwanted and unforeseen side effects that may affect pupils' lives today and in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Schools of education are increasingly experiencing a demand to infuse technology into social studies methods courses to meet both national and state technology standards. However, since most preservice teachers' coursework is taken in the arts and sciences, it is particularly important that these students experience effective teaching using technology in courses outside of the college of education (Cooper & Bull, 1997). Evidence suggests that one of the greatest challenges for college and university faculty is integrating technology into their instruction (Green, 1999). If preservice teachers only see technology utilized in their education courses, they are less likely to integrate technology in their future classrooms. This paper reports the results of a qualitative research study about the innovative and effective use of technology in an undergraduate history course. In addition, the paper provides a discussion of the implications of the strategies utilized in the course for social studies teacher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an interview with Paul Kraft, media specialist for Celebration School at the 1996 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Summer Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida. Offering of best practices seminars to teachers; Creation of personalized learning plan for student. INSETS: How's that again? (glossary).;DNA2=Diverse domains, nurturing neighborhoods...

This article presents the report of the Division of Multimedia Production of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) at the 2004 AECT Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Video production professionals, teachers and professors, business trainers and private consultants met to formalize the division and elect its first set of officers. With a lengthy mission statement, the group set out to provide support and create programs that will have an important impact on, as well as high interest for, the AECT convention in Orlando, Florida, in 2005.

The article announces winners of the 1st Annual Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards, jointly sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing and the European Foundation for Management Development. The idea behind the awards was to encourage, celebrate and reward excellence in international management research. Winners received €1,500 and a number have had the opportunity to meet and discuss their research with a relevant journal editor. Some of the winners for 2005 are Victoria Little, University of Auckland, New Zealand in the Business-to-Business Marketing Management category; Mamata Jenamani, Indian Institute of Technology, in the Enterprise Applications of Internet Technology category; Leanne Cutcher, University of Sydney, Australia, in the Human Resource Management category; Christian Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, in the Interdisciplinary Accounting Research category; and Tracey Dagger, University of Western Australia, in the International Service Management category.

This article presents information related to youngsters in Australia. Information about youth suicide prevention is provided by the Australian Institute of Family Studies web site, and can also be accessed by contacting the AIFS at 300 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Ph 03 9214 7888. The proceedings of the 1996 Third Global Conference on National Youth Service, held in Papua New Guinea, are now online on the NCYS web site. The International Digital Electronic Access Library is an online library that includes the full text of all the 175 journals published by Academic Press, and is available by license to college and university libraries worldwide. Writer Lynnette R. Porter's book covers the many issues surrounding the design and management of distance learning programs, gives in-depth coverage of communications technology, the Web, training, newsgroups and mailing lists, Web sites, and online resources for grants and proposals.

This article presents the report of the School and Media Technology Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) at the 2004 AECT Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The AECT Media Specialist of the Year Award went to Monica Deutsch at Mills Elementary, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Her library media program provides a collaborative environment that ranges from blocks of time devoted to serious research to creative endeavors in the Poetry Club. There are even opportunities for students to engage one another is a game of chess.

The article talks about the two ERIC Clearinghouse digests in the area of transition. The first digest, entitled "Role of Vocational Education in Transition Services for Handicapped Youth", explores various topics such as the role of vocational education and gaps in or duplication of services. The second digest, entitled "Parents' Role in Transition for Handicapped Youth", discusses parents' roles in their children's career exploration and independent living skills, among others. More information on the subject matter is given in the article

The article talks about the latest ERIC bulletin, a four-page collection of resources from the Center for Special Education Technology, Project RETOOL and CEC/ERIC. More details about the technology can be found at their HOT-LINE 1-800-873-TALK. To request for free copies, the requirement is just to send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, located at 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Vancouver. More information on the subject matter is given in the article.