This post from Diane Goldenberg-Hart on the Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) mailing list (CNI-ANNOUNCE: cni-announce-subscribe@cni.org) caught my eye It features James J. Duderstadt, who is (from the email): is President Emeritus at the University of Michigan, he chaired the National Academies committee that published the key 2002 report Preparing for the Revolution: Information Technology […] Lire la suite

MIT and Harvard announce the launch of a new online education platform called EdX : [From the press release] Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community […] Lire la suite

Here are a few Fair Use guides setup by institutions. Fair Use is a general exception to copyright applies in the USA – in Canada, we have fair dealings, which applies to private study, research, news reporting, criticism and review. These guides may be useful in devising our own fair dealings guides. “Best practices” from […] Lire la suite

An interesting attempt to rething journal rankings, with open access publishing in mind: March 2012 College & Research Libraries vol. 73 no. 2 134-145 Positioning Open Access Journals in a LIS Journal RankingJingfeng Xia Lire la suite

See these guidelines about tenure for librarians in universities: Standards for faculty status for academic librarians: Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, June 2007, revised October 2011 March 2012 College & Research Libraries News vol. 73 no. 3 160-161 Lire la suite

The Modern Languages Association just issued an updated “Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media” – see also a blog post from InsideHigherEd. See also this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Scholars Seek Better Ways to Track Impact Online (Jan 12 2012). Lire la suite

A recent blog post from Inside Higher Ed pointed me in the direction of this open course or MOOC: Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success / http://events.blackboard.com/open I could not resist the temptation to enroll despite the fact that I have a pretty full plate for the next few weeks. By the way, […] Lire la suite

These are some interesting reports that cover the video games industry in Canada. In addition, you may want to search for articles that cover this topic. Reports from Governments Federal Digital Media (Invest in Canada), see in particular “Digital Media – Canada’s Competitive Advantages” Small & Medium Enterprise Benchmarking (average income statement for firms with […] Lire la suite

We had a very interesting meeting today with Concordia’s Center for Teaching & Learning. The goal of the presentation was to explore partnership ideas, but we also discussed how the Library could contribute to a blended learning initiative at our institution. Here are some thoughts about the blended learning environment (I purposefully use the environment […] Lire la suite

CultureLibre.ca is my other blog – In French. Today marks its 7th anniversary… Over 1931 posts, 45000 unique visitors and 100000 page views. You may be interested to also follow my twitter feeds: @OutFindCA and @culturelibre Do you have a blog about librarianship? If you do, I’d like to know about it – please add […] Lire la suite