The Association of College & Research Libraries has just released an updated bersion of its Characteristics of programs of information literacy that illustrate best practices: A guideline. Lire la suite

Worth a read: this survey of open education resources from C&RL News. It lists course initiatives, curriculum sources, databases of objects, etc. Lire la suite

This is a quick search on the topic of open access books. See this panel on publishing your academic book in 2009 from University Affairs (not strictly speaking about open access). Trade association: SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition of the ARL) It seems this association is moving into exploring models for books or […] Lire la suite

Stephen Laster, Chief Information Officer, Harvard Business School, delivers his Viewpoint in the most receny Educause Review. Insisting on the dire financial situation of students and Universities alike, he stresses that technology offers an opportunity to solve these issues. The Learning Management Systems (LMS) as a plat-form or in the cloud…. Other articles present the […] Lire la suite

A colleague of mine told me about Eric Mazur‘s Peer Instruction (PI) technique, recently presented at Dawson College in Montréal. Professor Mazur teaches physics at Harvard and is also keenly interested in the effectiveness of teaching methods, such as peer instruction or just in time learning. Lire la suite

Here are short bibliographies generated from Library sources. EBSCO’s Business Source Complete from peer-reviewed journals. The search query was simply for the terms “video games” industry. I picked the most interesting that touched upon “indie games” or labour issues for the past 5 years, 7 articles from about the first 40 hits. Title: Under the […] Lire la suite

The Guardian’s Higher Ed blog has an interesting piece on “digital literacy” in the university classroom. Beyond skills, the post covers specific ideas from engaged faculty. For example, Sue Thomas, professor of new media, De Montfort University has this to say about transliteracy: Digital literacy as an important part of transliteracy: Transliteracy is the ability […] Lire la suite

On April 27 2012, Concordia University Libraries hosted its 10th annual Librarian’s Forum. I like to think of this venue as an opportunity for colleagues to expose their ongoing research projects to get feedback or pointers before the completion of their research cycle. At least, that is how I approach this event with regards to […] Lire la suite

This post from The Guardian Higher Ed presents a recent study: This week saw the first publication of a new ranking of national HE systems, based on research at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (University of Melbourne) into data from 48 countries with a developed HE offering. The ranking is organised […] Lire la suite

Concordia’s Centre for Teaching and Learning Services has a great article on using PowerPoint in the classroom (and many other topics dealing with technology in Education for that matter). Of note are the “additional readings” at the bottom, including 2 posts from Wired with David Byrne, a musician, speaking for and Edward Tufte, a design […] Lire la suite