From an announcement to irrodlsubscribe@athabascau.ca (02008 07 17): We would like to bring your attention to two very interesting texts that focus on online learning that have recently been released in both paper and online in PDF format. The first, published by Athabasca University Press, is the 2nd edition of “The Theory and Practice of [...]
Alice would be pleased and fit right in to “RezEd, the Hub for Learning and Virtual Worlds”. RezEd calls itself “your community for everything related to learning and virtual worlds! Each month we will feature inter-related podcasts, brief best practices, digital resources in the library, and featured blog posts and discussions.” In July RezEd is [...]
The Horizon Report 2008 Edition from the New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative is available as a PDF download. It was officially released on January 29, 02008 at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting. The report look at these six technologies: Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less: Grassroots Video Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less: Collaboration [...]
First there was Open Source software, then Open Access as promulgated through the Budapest Open Access Initiative, followed by the was Open Data movement, which I’m not sure has a city or a declaration behind its ideas, and now there’s the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. On the Web site be sure to review the [...]
The British Columbia Breeding Bird Atlas should excite a lot of birders who are looking for a way to share what they observe and know about the indigenous and migratory population of bird species throughout the province. This is great project. Some of the site functionality, however, hasn’t taken flight as of 02008 01 17.
Another little gem of a site from the Washington State Historical Society is its Washington History Online that’s designed for students. Among the interesting sub-sites that have repurposed some of their digitized content are The Treaty Trail: U.S.—Indian Treaty Councils in the Northwest and Leschi: Justice in Our Time.
The AHDS-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK list (02007 12 12) reports that Managing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Digital Learning Materials: A Development Pack for Institutional Repositories by John Casey, Jackie Proven and David Dripps, and released under a a Creative Commons License Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland, can be downloaded from http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/outputs.php. Further, “The TrustDR (Trust in Digital Repositories) [...]
Thanks to the latest issue of H.M. Glaney’s Digital Document Quarterly, I learned that the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Archives “presents digital copies of the entire collections of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein in downloadable form for research and academic purposes. Heinlein’s OPUS manuscripts is the first complete collection presented. These manuscript files include [...]
According to a media release dated 02007 08 13 on various mailing lists and elsewhere on the Internet, “Fedora Commons today announced the award of a four year, $4.9M grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop the organizational and technical frameworks necessary to effect revolutionary change in how scientists, scholars, museums, libraries, [...]
The Learning 2.0 Program looks like a a nifty and fun way for anyone to explore Web 2.0 and digital culture technlogies. Set up as a Blogspot.com (Blogger.com) blog, there are 22 things and activities you discover on your own at your own time. According to the About page, the program was “designed by Helene [...]
Quoting from the SOL*R front page, “BCcampus’ Shareable Online Learning Resources (SOL*R) provides the opportunity for British Columbia’s post-secondary educators to access and contribute free learning resources.” Source: Edtechpost About page, 02007 07 22
WebJunction.org has introduced its E-Learning Institute which offers “Courses and content supporting libraries at they create, implement and consume online learning. Resources are aimed at three general groups of people involved in e-learning: Online trainers and course creators wanting to learn how to create the most effective training possible. Library decision makers and administrators implementing [...]
The Horizon Report 2007 Edition from the New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative is available as a PDF download or online in HTML. The report look at these six technologies: Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less: User-Created Content Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less: Social Networking Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years: Mobile Phones Time-to-Adoption: Two to [...]
Launched the week of February 12, 02007 as part of Their Past Your Future, 1945-2005, an United Kingdom-wide e-learning site about World War Two, “‘Films from the Home Front‘ brings together a collection of unique moving images illustrating what life was like for ordinary people in Britain during the Second World War, as seen through [...]
eduSource Canada is the bilingual Canadian Network of Learning Object Repositories. I could be wrong, but there doesn’t yet appear to be an actual method of searching the various examples of learning object repositories listed on the site.
The eLearning Guild is giving anyone the opportunity to download the publication 339 Tips on the Implementation of an LMS or LCMS. Makes a nice digital stocking stuffer for elearning educators and technologists.
Issue 49 (October 02006) of the e-journal Ariadne out of the UK has some interesting articles from my perspective: “Wiki or Won’t He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis” by Marieke Guy, in which he critiques and assesses the true state of wikimania in the UK public sector based on the article “Public sector catches [...]
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) issued its Call for Proposals on October 17, 02006 for projects from public, non-profit Canadian museums (and some other institutional categories) that would see the creation of learning objects under its Agora Research Initiative as part of the Virtual Museum of Canada. I’m very pleased about this development because [...]
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries has made a free online video course available called Why Wiki?.
From the announcement to several mailing lists: “We [Meredith Farkas et al] are pleased to present Five Weeks to a Social Library (http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/), the first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and [...]
Although I don’t regularly announce new issues of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, because of a new multimeda format, I’m bringing this one to your attention, quoting from the announcement I received from the journal’s mailing list (02006 09 29): “The latest issue of the International Review of Research in [...]
OCLC’s WebJunction is hosting a free download of its report Trends in E-Learning for Library Staff: A Summary of Research Findings. It was posted on the site on August 7, 02006.
Update for 02006 09 04: The Electronic Resources & Libraries 2007 Conference is being held February 22 to 24, 02007, with pre-conference sessions on February 21. The conference location will be the Global Learning and Conference Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The proposal deadline is November 1, 02006. Using [...]
SLAINTE (Scottish Libraries across the Internet) through its Digital Library link offers a catalogue of online resources for continual learning by information professionals. If you conduct a Browse search of the catalogue, powered by Dynix’s Horizon Information Portal 3.04, under Subjects and type in Digital preservation, you’ll see various resources in this field.
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., USA, launched its Smithsonian Photography Initiative Web site in early 2006. The project itself was started in 2000 as a way to unify the 13 million photographic images held by the organization and its satellite cultural institutions. The Web site offers a tool for locating collections, online exhibits centered [...]
From the About page of AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository), “a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges – but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is being created by a team of [...]
A while back there was a thread on WEB4LIB about the next big thing in information delivery services. Maybe this is old news, but I happen to believe that e-learning is the next big thing for libraries and others involved in information delivery services. E-learning leverages what librarians and other information professonals already know and [...]
From the main page of the prototype TILE (The Inclusive Learning Exchange) site at the University of Toronto’s Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (visited 02006 07 24): “The Inclusive Learning Exchange is a revolutionary learning object repository service that responds to the individual needs of the learner. TILE provides the authoring tools, repository architecture, and preference [...]
The United States National Endowment for the Humanities has launched a Digital Humanities Intiative. The goal of this new initiative is to support “projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology.”
As announced on the Our Roots – Nos Racines, Canada’s Local Histories Online Web site, one of the two best digital library general collections in Canada (the other being Early Canadiana Online): “In May 2006, Our Roots launched its new web site, designed to be more accessible for all users. The Our Roots project is [...]
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