I was recently asked to review a few submitted articles for scholarly journals and I found myself wondering about what topics to include. A colleague shared the following insight: Your evaluation, which does not need to be very long, should assess the submission based on 1) The importance of its contribution to the field (originality); […] Lire la suite

UNESCO annonces the launch of an online course in Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue : The course will focus on the following subjects: Intercultural dialogue and citizenship; Freedom of expression, freedom of information and understanding the news; Representation and languages in media and information; Advertising and citizenship; Information literacy and library skills; Communication; MIL […] Lire la suite

I’ve just compiled my information diet on y other blog CultureLibre.ca. I hppe I have a balanced information diet or no information bubbles… Lire la suite

You may already know that I have been working on a series of training videos for undergraduate business students – essentially an information literacy program for the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. These videos aim to present research skills and eventually a reflective model on information seeking and use behavior. To assist […] Lire la suite

Educause Review presents an interesting project: a class about digital distractions focussed around a “concentration lab”. Also of interest, the results of a class survey about digital habits. What a great theme to engage students about their learning habits! Lire la suite

UNESCO announced that an OER workshop was held last week – sorry for not highlighting this on time! Most of the material seems to be online, from the WikiEducator.org website. Also of interest is the UNESCO OER Declaration, dating back to June 2012. Also, there are many groups active on this front: OER Foundation, WikiEducator, […] Lire la suite

ACFAS publishes an essay/interview with Normand Baillargeon on critical thinking On the French Canadian scientific community association’s website: « Les vertus épistémiques : l’honnêteté intellectuelle, l’intégrité, la capacité de soumettre à la critique d’autrui ce qu’on avance, une certaine et indispensable méfiance à l’endroit de nos sens et de notre mémoire, la capacité d’envisager des hypothèses autres, […] Lire la suite

Librarians and a student at Kansas State Salina U. (USA) have launched a graphic novel (comic book really) about library use called Legends of the Library Ninjas: A Quest for Knowledge. Hat tip to Sheila Webber for the link. Lire la suite

From a Chronicle of Higher Education blog, see Reacting to the Past: An Open Game Based Pedagogy Workshop at Duke, January 19-20: I was not in a time machine. I was at the Reacting to the Past Institute at Barnard College, one of the most exhilarating new methods of revolutionizing higher education that I have […] Lire la suite

In its Schumpeter colums, The Economist this weeks presents Gamificatiln, through a new book published on the subject: As video games have grown from an obscure hobby to a $67 billion industry, management theorists have begun to return the favour. Video games now have the dubious honour of having inspired their own management craze. Called […] Lire la suite