The American Library Association just published a report by Canadian librarian Carmen Kazakoff-Lane called “Environmental Scan of OERs, MOOCs, and Libraries: What Effectiveness and Sustainability Means for Libraries’ Impact on Open Education” (pdf). Of particular interest is the 6-page bibliography (which I will reproduce in the comments section of this post). Lire la suite

Sometimes, all one needs is a name to get started on researching a topic. Here is one: Michael Power. I stumbled on his e-learning diary published in open access from Athabasca University Press in both French & English, called: A Designer’s Log: Case Studies in Instructional Design. Already there are great insights in this book, […] Lire la suite

I found this post from the Impact of the social sciences blog from the London school of Economics very interesting. It covers various threads stemming from the emergence of algorithmic practices in the social sciences. I’ve added a few sites to my RSS feeds! Lire la suite

I just read this interesting article from C&R Libraries about a flipped infolit class. The flipped classroom: Assessing an innovative teaching model for effective and engaging library instruction Sara Arnold-Garza January 2014 College & Research Libraries News vol. 75 no. 1 10-13 Also of interest: Four quick flips: Activities for the information literacy classroom Ilka […] Lire la suite

I just gave a lecture about copyright called: What’s up with Canadian Copyright? Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation. It uses the excellent NFB documentary by Brett Gaylor called: RIP! A remix manifesto. See also the movie’s page here. This is a similar lecture to the one I delivered in February 2013 in prof. […] Lire la suite

I am happy to announce the launch of a new batch of tutorials on YouTube, the first of which is on PMB, the print measurement bureau: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce2dYzFYowE&w=560&h=315] This video follows a new template I have devised for my blended learning initiative to bring information literacy to my students. I want to replace my in-class […] Lire la suite

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has published a useful guide to altmetrics (pdf). Altmetrics are alternative metrics to measure the impact of research. Also of interest, the Summer 2013 (vol. 25 issue 2) issue of Information Standards Quarterly from NISO covers altmetrics (direct link to the PDF of the full issue). In the […] Lire la suite

Two researchers from the Université de Montréal just released a 50+ page report on the use of iPads in schools (K-12). At tip to Antoine Robitaille from the Montréal newspaper Le Devoir on highlighting its publication. Lire la suite