Download or read book Perceptions of Academic Librarians Regarding Supporting Distance Education Students and Meeting National Standards written by Theresa M. Mastrodonato and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how academic libraries are budgeting for services and staffing to support distance students is important because students are increasingly supplementing their face-to-face program with online classes or are enrolling in fully online programs. The Association of College and Research Libraries Distance Library Services division have had standards for supporting distance students since the 1960s. The purposes of this study were to determine if academic libraries are meeting the Standards for Distance Learning Library Services [Standards] with regard to having a separate budget and staff to support distance students and to compare the institutional characteristics and organizational effectiveness of libraries that meet and do not meet The Standards. A quantitative comparative design was used to electronically survey all types of academic librarians (n = 91). Descriptive, independent t-tests, chi-square, and MANOVA statistics were used to analyze results. The results indicate that institutional characteristics had no impact on whether or not an academic library met the Standards. Additionally, the results showed that academic libraries were just as organizationally effective whether or not they met The Standards. This research will provide the field of academic librarianship with data to make informed decisions on whether the Standards for Distance Learning Library Services need to be updated or changed as they relate to separate staff and budget.
Download or read book The Survey of Library Services for Distance Learning Programs 2014 Edition written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study examines how academic libraries are serving their institution’s distance and blended learning programs, including the impact of the rapid development of MOOCs and the increasing use of lecture capture in online courses. The study looks at staffing, budgets, salaries and other nuts and bolts aspects of college library programs to serve distance learners. It also probes how librarians communicate with distance learners – through online information literacy courses, online tutorials, instant messaging and a strong presence on course management systems, among many other ways. The study offers hard data on the percentage of distance learning librarians that archive and use lecture capture materials, their spending on licensed films and other intellectual property for distance learners, and the ways that librarians track contacts with distance learning students and much more.
Download or read book Library Services for Business Students in Distance Education written by Shari Buxbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give distance education students the library access they need to succeed! This important collection explores various approaches librarians have taken in their efforts to provide library services for distance education business students and discusses the problems they have encountered. It also examines the standards and guidelines that have been developed to measure these services and includes case studies from various types of institutions with an emphasis on collaboration with faculty. Library Services for Business Students in Distance Education: Issues and Trends examines: the issues facing libraries integrating the changes necessary for distance education copyright in relation to making materials available electronically the need for cataloging Web pages how librarians can ensure that distance educators understand the library¿s role the services that CMU librarians have developed to support distance learning business courses how librarians at Pace University fine-tuned their methods of collaboration with faculty and students in an off-campus MBA program how librarians at Royal Roads University helped to integrate information literacy into the syllabus ways to use videoconferencing technology to teach library research to business students how Drexel University¿s Lebow College of Business revamped its journal collection to meet the needs of distance learners and much, much more!
Download or read book A Continuing Challenge for Librarians written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the full text of an essay titled "A continuing challenge for librarians: meeting the needs of distance education students," by Carol Goodson. Discusses the development of distance education classes at the State University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia, and the library support for the students. Highlights the library services work.
Download or read book A Study of the Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding Library Services Available to Students Enrolled in Online Degree Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a diverse population of students who will benefit greatly from a convenient, time and place-independent learning environment. Distance education provides this type of environment and addresses the many needs of adult learners and the new generation of online learners. The problem is that this environment differs from a traditional institution of higher learning and continues to bring about questions from educators related to the issue of equivalency between online and traditional degree programs, especially in terms of student support services, such as the library. The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions and attitudes of students regarding traditional and distance library services, determine if the outcomes resulting from the library services provided in the online degree programs were equivalent to those outcomes for on-campus programs and provide information to enhance and improve the effectiveness of online degree programs. An online survey was conducted focusing on the perceptions and attitudes of students regarding traditional and distance library services. The results of the study indicated that overall the students were satisfied with the library resources and services available to them and the students did not perceive that the distance library services were different from the traditional library services. Possible reasons underlying this perception may be that approximately 85 percent of the students had prior college experience or had completed a degree. Therefore, students most likely were familiar with today's library services. However, institutions should remain proactive because distance education students will continue to demand and expect libraries to meet their needs. As these demands and expectations are explored new library services and resources will emerge. Also, institutions of higher learning must have a commitment to providing distance students with the same quality of education and equivalent support services as on-campus students if they expect those outside the educational arena to respect degrees obtained through this means of educational learning.
Download or read book Teaching and Learning at a Distance written by Michael Simonson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching and Learning at a Distance is written for introductory distance education courses for preservice or in-service teachers, and for training programs that discuss teaching distant learners or managing distance education systems. This text provides readers with the basic information needed to be knowledgeable distance educators and leaders of distance education programs. The teacher or trainer who uses this book will be able to design courses, evaluate programs, and identify issues and trends affecting the field. In this text we take the following themes: The first theme is the definition of distance education. Before we started writing the first edition of Teaching and Learning at a Distance we carefully reviewed the literature to determine the definition that would be at the foundation of our writing. This definition is based on the work of Desmond Keegan, but is unique to this book and has been adopted by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology and by the Encyclopedia Britannica. The second theme of the book is the importance of research to the development of effective courses and programs offered at a distance. The best practices presented in Teaching and Learning at a Distance are validated by scientific evidence. Certainly there are “rules of thumb,” but we have always attempted to only include recommendations that can be supported by research. The third theme of Teaching and Learning at a Distance is derived from Richard Clark’s famous quote published in the Review of Educational Research asserting that media are mere vehicles that do not directly influence achievement. Clark’s controversial work is discussed in the book, but is also fundamental to the book’s advocacy for distance education—in other words, we authors do not make the claim that education delivered at a distance is inherently better than other ways people learn. Distance delivered instruction is not a magical approach that makes learners achieve more. Equivalency theory is the fourth theme of the book. Here we present the concept that instruction should be provided to learners that is equivalent rather than identical to what might be delivered in a traditional environment. Equivalency theory helps the instructional designer approach the development of instruction for each learner without attempting to duplicate what happens in a face-to-face classroom. The final theme for Teaching and Learning at a Distance is the idea that the book should be comprehensive—that it should cover as much of the various ways instruction is made available to distant learners as is possible. It can serve as a stand-alone source of information.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Information Literacy Framework written by Heidi Julien and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps demystify how to incorporate ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into information literacy instruction in higher education as well as how to teach the new Framework to pre-service librarians as part of their professional preparation. This authoritative volume copublished by the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) demonstrates professional practice by bringing together current case studies from librarians in higher education who are implementing the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education as well as cases from educators in library and information science, who are working to prepare their pre-service students to practice in the new instructional environment. Instructional librarians, administrators, and educators will benefit from the experiences the people on the ground who are actively working to make the transition to the Framework in their professional practice.
Download or read book Oer written by Andrew Wesolek and published by Pacific University Press. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of us, the drive to affect positive change--however vague or idiosyncratic our sense of this might be--has guided our work in higher education. We champion the pursuit of a college degree because few endeavors can match it in terms of advancing a person's economic mobility (Chetty, Friedman, Saez, Turner, and Yagan; 2017). Despite recent debates about the value of a college degree (Pew Research Center, 2017), the opportunities and financial stability awarded to those with college degrees remain apparent when they are compared to peers who have only graduated high school (Pew Research Center, 2014). And while more Americans have a college degree than ever before (Ryan and Bauman, 2016), access to a formal, post-secondary education continues to be elusive for some. Indeed, over the last ten years, analysts have projected that the cost of attending college would keep 2.4 million low-to-moderate income, college-qualified high school graduates from completing a college degree (Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 2006). During that same period, college students in the United States saw expenses related to tuition and fees increase by 63 percent, school housing costs (excluding board) increase by 51 percent, textbook prices increase by 88 percent (Bureau of Labor, 2016). Because few students can afford a college education by salary alone, 44.2 million Americans have sought financial aid via student loans. As a result, total student loan debt is now topping $1.45 trillion in the United States (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2017), and student loan delinquency rates are averaging 11.2 percent (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2017). The burden of a student's financial decisions extends beyond the mere individual: society will inevitably carry the weight of this debt for years to come.
Download or read book Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age written by Tom J. van Weert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in Lifelong Learning supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). In this overview, the following issues are discussed: -Changing environments, -What is Lifelong Learning? -Who are the learners? -Characteristics of learning environments, -Sustainability of learning environments, -Learning communities, -Role of educational institutions, -Role of ICT. Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age contains reviewed papers by invited authors, as well as a comprehensive report with resource materials produced by a Focus Group of invited participants in the Lifelong Learning Working Track at the e-Train conference, "E-Training Practices for Professional Organizations". The conference was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Technical Committee 3 (Education), and was held in Pori, Finland in July 2003. Lifelong Learning in the Digital Age will help both decision makers and educational designers to deal with the issues connected with Lifelong Learning. Solutions will have to be unique for each culture and each country, but this book will certainly inform and should considerably assist decision-making and problem resolution.
Download or read book Metaliteracy Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners written by Thomas P. Mackey and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s learners communicate, create, and share information using a range of information technologies such as social media, blogs, microblogs, wikis, mobile devices and apps, virtual worlds, and MOOCs. In Metaliteracy, respected information literacy experts Mackey and Jacobson present a comprehensive structure for information literacy theory that builds on decades of practice while recognizing the knowledge required for an expansive and interactive information environment. The concept of metaliteracy expands the scope of traditional information skills (determine, access, locate, understand, produce, and use information) to include the collaborative production and sharing of information in participatory digital environments (collaborate, produce, and share) prevalent in today’s world. Combining theory and case studies, the authors Show why media literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy, and a host of other specific literacies are critical for informed citizens in the twenty-first centuryOffer a framework for engaging in today’s information environments as active, selfreflective, and critical contributors to these collaborative spacesConnect metaliteracy to such topics as metadata, the Semantic Web, metacognition, open education, distance learning, and digital storytellingThis cutting-edge approach to information literacy will help your students grasp an understanding of the critical thinking and reflection required to engage in technology spaces as savvy producers, collaborators, and sharers.
Download or read book Off campus Library Services written by Anne Marie Casey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet, distance learning, and remote access to central information banks used to be the stuff of science fiction. Nowadays, academic librarians reap the benefits, and face the practical consequences, of the staggering advances in information technology. This book presents the advice and suggestions of experienced librarians to help you develop effective, easy-to-use off-campus information services, including distance learning. The book reveals the secrets of planning and implementing off-campus services. It also helps veteran librarians add user-friendly features and solve common problems on their existing systems. Off-Campus Library Services explains the technology, addresses management issues, and offers usable suggestions for program development.
Download or read book Academic Library Impact written by Lynn Silipigni Connaway and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best practices developed by the profession in capturing and emphasizing academic libraries' contributions to student learning, success, and experience.
Download or read book Embedded Librarians written by Cassandra Kvenild and published by Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases strategies for successfully embedding librarians and library services across higher education. Chapters feature case studies and reports on projects from a wide variety of colleges and universities. --from publisher description.
Download or read book An Introduction To Staff Development In Academic Libraries written by Elizabeth Connor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensible resource for librarians of all roles, the case studies in An Introduction to Staff Development in Academic Libraries demonstrate the necessity and value of integrating the library's mission statement and strategic plan with bold approaches to staff orientation, training, mentoring, and development.
Download or read book University Futures Library Futures written by Constance Malpas and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OCLC Research and Ithaka S+R are examining the impact of increased institutional differentiation in universities on the organization of academic libraries and the services they provide. For decades, models of excellence in academic library service have been shaped by a collections-centric paradigm in which the size of local print inventory is considered a key indicator of quality. OCLC Research and Ithaka are joining forces to develop a new framework for understanding the fit between emerging library service paradigms and university types.
Download or read book Supporting Lifelong Learning Organising learning written by Roger Harrison and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at what types of learning environments promote lifelong learning, how they can be organized to support meaningful learning and what the implications of these shifts are for managers.
