Libraries And E Learning (2010 02 28)

Libraries and E-Learning: what have they got to offer

each other? Alice Keller, Oxford University

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What is e-learning?

E-Learning as

“Learning with Technology”

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Learning with Technology

• ‘Learning’:– Accumulate knowledge.– The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge.– A change in behaviour as a result of experience.

• ‘Technology’: – The practical application of science to commerce or

industry.– The application of scientific advances to benefit humanity.– The body of tools and other implements produced by a

given society.

Learning and Libraries

• Do libraries determine or influence how and what we learn?

Learning and Libraries

Approaches to E-Learning

• By hardware type• By software/system type• By learning theory• By facilitator• By type of learner

Approaches to E-Learning• By hardware type

– Voting eggs, laptop, mobile phone, whiteboard• By software/system type

– Internet, VLEs, videos, podcasts, spreadsheets• By content

– Existing published content, newly created content, significant copyright issues

• By provider– Lecturer/teacher, library, publisher, computer dept

• By type of learner– Full-time students, part-time students, distance learners, public

Example WebLearn PodCasts YouTube Shake-speare

Online short courses

Hardware

Software / system

Content

Provided by

Type of learner

Some examples of e-learning at Oxford University

1. WebLearn2. PodCasts3. Videos on YouTube 4. Shakespeare Quartos Archive 5. Oxford's Online Short Courses

I have chosen examples that focus on managing and delivering information, as this is where I see most overlap with the mission of libraries.

WebLearn

• WebLearn is Oxford’s VLE (Virtual Learning Environment)

• Operates on Sakai (open source system), hosted by OUCS

• Content management system for course materials (reading lists)

• Contains social and interactive functions• Admin and essay submission tools• Secure and personalised

Podcasts

• Two ways in which you can listen/view the podcasts:– The University has its own site in iTunes U

http://itunes.ox.ac.uk (requires iTunes software). – Podcasts can also be used on a web browser or

MP3 player, http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/. – Total 1,433 media items.

http://itunes.ox.ac.uk/

http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/

Using podcasts via browser or mobile phone

• “A romp through the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the present day” by Marianne Talbot

• MP3 file, 84MB • (see short-cut “Talbot” in

folder)

Oxford University on YouTube

• Did you know? YouTube is the second largest search engine outside Google

• A lot of scholarly content– Lectures– Conference papers

• Other relevant material– Student experiences– Library user training

Examples of Oxford on YouTube• "Has Science Buried God?" - Richard Dawkins

vs John Lennox debate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxD-HPMpTto

• Oxford University MBA - Student Interview: Vaibhav Puri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MVqx--S2xQ&feature=PlayList&p=4F7F8549E741F72A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1

• JISC: Libraries of the Future, event in Oxford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjoJd_uN-7M&feature=PlayList&p=3FB056AEEF512032&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4

• Social Science Library, Oxford: Video Tour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8POQ9YB7V0

• ... also a limited number of Chemistry lectures on webcasts http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/webcast/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxD-HPMpTto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MVqx--S2xQ&feature=PlayList&p=4F7F8549E741F72A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1

Oxford's Online Short Courses• Uses Moodle as VLE• Example: Brontës, Charlotte Brontë II

http://openmoodle.conted.ox.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=134

• Uses open educational resources (open access material)

• Restricted access to licensed material for part-time, evening class students, or distant learners

• Forums as an opportunity for online interactions http://openmoodle.conted.ox.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=2302

Shakespeare Quartos Archive:Hamlet Prototype

• View cover-to-cover digital reproductions and transcriptions of 32 copies of the 5 earliest editions of the play Hamlet.

• View them separately, or alongside any number of copies.

• Search, annotate, make public or private sets of annotations.

• Funded by NEH (US) and JISC.• http://www.quartos.org/index.html

Comparing the Bodleian 1611 edition with the British Library 1637 edition

• This video demonstrates the advanced features of the Annotation and Exhibit tools in the Shakespeare Quartos Archive. http://www.quartos.org/info/videos.html

Example WebLearn PodCasts YouTube Online short courses

Shake-speare

Hardware Computer, laptop, web browser

iPod, MP3 player or web browser

Computer, laptop, web browser, speakers

Computer, laptop, web browser


Software / system

VLE, Sakai iTunes, MP3 files

YouTube Moodle Quartos org

Content Licensed and other content

Mainly audio, some video. Self-created.

Videos, recorded events.

No access to licensed content

Shakespeare plays

Provided by OUCS (centralised)

OUCS Various dept Continuing Ed Dept

Quartos, NEH, JISC

Type of learner

Oxford student

Wide public Wide public or specific audience

Distant learner, registered

Scholarly public


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Software / system







Shakespeare plays



Quartos, NEH, JISC

Type of learner

Oxford student

Wide public Wide public or specific audience


Scholarly public

Where does the library fit in?


Shake-speare






Software / system







Shakespeare plays



Quartos, NEH, JISC

Type of learner

Oxford student

Wider public Wider public or specific audience


Scholarly public

Where does the library fit in?

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