Aussi en français: http://www.culturelibre.ca/tag/knight/ Follow the evolution of this project here: http://outfind.ca/tag/knight/ Last year’s Arcade 11 brought an interesting mix of librarians, indie games developers as well as games scholars. Through conversations and exchanges of views, it quickly emerged that libraries required alternative models to make independent games available through their digital collections. Purchasing born-digital […] Lire la suite

I am listening to a podcast of a 2005 EDUCAUSE session at their annual conference entitled How E-Learning Policies Can Reduce Faculty Workloads and Keep E-Learning Courses Running Smoothly. The speaker is Shirley Waterhouse, the Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Their website also showcases many projects and initiatives […] Lire la suite

I like to think that this blog is read by a steady and eager group of colleagues… but really, I blog for myself. I use it to keep track of ideas, tidbits and interesting stuff. If you find it useful, great, else, well… see you around. I liked this study from British colleagues about why […] Lire la suite

Mark Weiler had an awesome idea. As a member of the UWO Student Chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL), he posted a message to our mailing list (I am a member of CAPAL) and asked us to send him the list of conferences we attend. A few weeks later, the list […] Lire la suite

Interesting press release from the FemTechNet Commons about a new approach to open education: do it in a network! From their press release: FemTechNet, a network of feminist scholars and educators, is launching a new model for online learning at 15 higher education institutions this fall. The DOCC, or Distributed Open Collaborative Course, is a […] Lire la suite

This is a vision I had a few weeks ago, that I shared with colleagues at the Technoculture Art and Games (TAG) research group at Concordia University. It also fits with a conversation I’ve had with Marius Buliga on his blog chorasimilarity about data visualization, apps and open data (and much more). It is a […] Lire la suite

I’ve always wanted to learn a few more languages, and I am going to add a new one to my “must earn before I die” list: econometrics. I sense that this is the analytical tool that I will eventually have to use to really dig deep into the problems I want to research. The problem […] Lire la suite

Here is the poster for a debate I am participating in tomorrow from 6PM to 8PM at Concordia University’s Bronfman Center: Concordia University School of Community and Public Affairs Concordia to Hold Panel Discussion on Open Access to Intellectual Property and Collective Rights Management in Canada MONTREAL, March 12th, 2013, 18h00-20h00. The School of Community […] Lire la suite

Here is my proposed lecture for the e-Scape Conference at Concordia University: 1. Presentation Title: The unexpected journey from a 60 minute lecture to a MOOC: a librarian’s mid-way report 2. A 100-word description of the session Information Literacy can be understood as the curriculum Librarians must curate without a classroom. Traditionally, this has meant […] Lire la suite

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