2008: head and Senior Learning and Librarian Staff. Trends in E-Learning for Library Staff: a summary of research findings. The e-learning library: only a warehouse of learning resources ? The Electronic Library 2004, 22, (5), 408-415ĩ.
Sixth World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning for the Library and Information Professions – Muchen: Saur, 2005ħ. pp99-114Ħ.Ĝontinuing Professional Development – Preparing for new roles in libraries: a voyage of discovery. La formation à distance dans un context sud-sud: défis et enjeux. Critical issues related to Internet teaching. Paper presented at the IFLA Satellite Meeting, Section Management & Marketing, Management &Marketing Section, Geneva, Switzerland, July 28-30, 2003Ĥ. ATutor is an acronym coined from the place of development. ATutor is an open source, online learning environment used to develop web-based courses, author e-learning content, and present instructional materials on the internet.
In this Seminar I heard for the first time to speak about TV and computer use for distance learning.ģ.Ğ-Learning for Management and Marketing in Libraries=e-Formation pour le marketing et le management des bibliothèques. learning processes which is better managed when compared with lecture method. «Leadership Roles for Librarians in the New Learning and Information Environments » MLA Satellite Seminar. Libraries and the Enhancement of E-Learning. OCLC E-Learning Task Force (October 2003).
Training.Ĭheck full metadata for this record Referencesġ. User training, promotion, activities, education. In this context, it has been a real struggle to develop new professional attitudes based on effective communication skills. Moreover, technical aspects regarding barriers of access to e-learning content in hospital/university context will be analysed.
The critical aspects of this initiative within traditional Italian Universities will be highlighted: the transition to a digital library-oriented profession is made difficult by national and local norms and behaviours. This experience was an interesting approach not only to a virtual environment, but also to the basics of pedagogical requirements of a good training course.Īs a second example of this re-skilling perspective, the experience of a course, delivered in 2008, for hospital librarians as e-tutors on the Moodle platform is also be presented. Librarians were involved in a course of “training for trainers” and in the production of Learning Objects/Tutorials for Students and Teachers. The University of Bologna launched an Information Literacy Project in 2003 to improve information skills at all levels. Such ideas are public and have been practiced for centuries they are not the result of research and development.In the Universities, Research and Health Institutions the need has become evident for high quality information literacy in order to develop and support high-level research, teaching and other services. These volunteers collaborated to make a Wikipedia article on the History of virtual learning environments, which documents several examples of prior art.Īdditionally, Greg Gay, project lead of ATutor asserted in support of the re- examination request: "A patent on an educational concept - namely the relationship among students, instructors, and administrators - makes no sense. In support of the challenge to the Blackboard patent, volunteers across the Internet found examples of older programs that used ideas claimed by the patent. If successful, the request will ultimately lead to the cancellation of all 44 claims of the Blackboard patent. In early 2007 the re-examination request was granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
The Software Freedom Law Center filed a re-examination request on behalf of ATutor, and two other clients in late 2006. ATutor is one of three open source learning management systems named in a formal challenge to an e-learning patent issued to Blackboard Inc.