Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference
Teaching, Learning, & Technology
The Connected Classroom
April 7-9, 2002
E-Books and the Classroom: New Opportunities for the Convergence of the Library, Content and Curriculum
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By: Marcia Deddens |
Abstract
Libraries are being challenged to redefine their services to fit smoothly into college and university development of E-Learning curriculum. This presentation will examine the characteristics of e-books and other full content electronic and network available library resources. It will demonstrate that such characteristics based analysis can be used to design and deliver an effective library centered E-Learning environment for students and faculty. An implementation model currently underway at Drake University will be used to demonstrate the challenges and opportunities presented by this approach.
Description
This presentation will provide a new service model for the digital library that maximizes the potential of full content and multimedia online resources in the instructional agenda of the university.
By comparing the characteristics of traditional print library materials with those of new electronic content resources, libraries can define and deliver services for and collaborative associations with faculty, students and other campus service providers. Libraries can facilitate a new mentoring curriculum model, which utilizes traditional library facilities and networked full content. Key to this environment is an understanding of electronic books as collections of learning objects, which can be used directly in the classrooms and as components of distance learning courses.
Those who attend the session will be provided with both analytic content and a new characteristics based planning model to be applied topically to developing various service agendas within a digital library.
The characteristics based planning model has been used to develop new service agendas and technology enabled learning experiences at Drake University. The planning model is designed to enhance curriculum planning at any college or university where increasing proportions of library collections come from access to networked, full content, multimedia resources. The exercise also defines new relationships for librarians with faculty, students, and other campus information services providers, and challenges teaching faculty to integrate digital content into the curriculum.