2012
Inspiration Research Social media
Tools for the digital scholar
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-11-16
A colleague passed on this nifty project – it aims to survey the digital authorship tools out there… Bamboo DiRT From the Bamboo DiRT “about” page: Bamboo DiRT is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT is an evolution of Lisa Spiro’s DiRT […] Lire la suite
Open education
HÉC Montréal launches 3 open courses
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-10-29
According to Radio-Canada, local business university HÉC Montréal launches three open courses on the SAKAI platform. The courses are, in French, Intro to Marketing, Understanding Financial Statements and Economic Policy Analysis. Lire la suite
Open access Research
CISTI’s DataCite program
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-10-25
I’m attending a WebCast of DataCite, CISTI’s research data management program. I like this slide to answer “why manage data?”: The goal is to assign a DOI to datasets used in research. Lire la suite
Blended Learning Librarianship
ARL “brief” on MOOCs
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-10-24
The Association of Research Libraries has issued a brief discussing legal and policy issues of MOOCs. Legal issues focus on copyright. The conclusion summarizes the issues at had for research libraries: It should be clear from the preceding discussion that libraries have a significant stake in the way their parent and partner institutions approach the […] Lire la suite
Guidelines - recommendations Librarianship Read Me Universities
Dalhousie Library Council
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-10-22
A colleague mentioned that librarians at Dalhousie U. have been working towards a Library Council, including interim terms of reference. You can visit all their documents on Dalhousie U’s institutional repository. Lire la suite
Concordia University Information literacy
Soft launch: my business research training videos
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-10-09
I will be launching about 30 library training vidoes about doimg business research from a Canadian University context sometime in the next few days… But you can check them out during this “soft launch” on my YouTube channel, in particular the two playlists (industry research and searching for business articles). Lire la suite
Blended Learning Open education
Quebec Ed Ministry launches Higher Ed Prize
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-10-04
From the ProfWeb blog (Profweb : Lancement du concours des prix du ministre : une invitation aux pédagogues de l’enseignement supérieur), we leard that the Guebec government is launching a prize for innovative practices in Higher Ed. Works have to be in French and the deadline is in November for colleges/Cegeps and january for Universities. Lire la suite
Critical Thinking Videos
The BBC on making better decisions
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-10-01
Caught this on the Open Culture blog, a link to this documentary from the BBC How to Make Better Decisions. Lire la suite
Guidelines - recommendations
How not to lecture in a classroom
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-09-26
I stumbled on this interesting document from McGill University, called “Tips for Engaging Students in Learning: Alternatives to Lecture”. The table of contents seems promising: Ground Rules Wait Time Give Me Five Provide Positive Reinforcement The Rule of Ten and Two Think, Pair, Share Snowballing The 60 Second Buzz 60-60, 30-30 Something I Have Learned […] Lire la suite
Blended Learning Open education
Google goes MOOC
Olivier Charbonneau 2012-09-25
In addition to the news of the Gates Foundation giving 9 million dollars for “inovative education practices (see: Wired Campus blog post on June 19th), Google has joined the fray for Massively Open Online Courses (see this other post on Wired Campus, a tech blog of the Chronicle of higher education). The search Internet giant […] Lire la suite