TCLC 2007 Presentation

Tri-State College Library Cooperative Spring Conference, American College, Bryn Mawr, PA, April 24th 2007 The Virtual Learning Commons Moving Towards a ‘ Grand Good Place’ by Mark D. Puterbaugh Information Services Librarian Eastern University, Warner Memorial Library, St. Davids, PA

A Place where everyone know your name!

Distance Education/Reference and Life on the Internet
Lack of interaction
Social process
Social presence
Quality of instruction
Quality of reference services support

“ The bigger the new world that the Net opens up, the lonelier it is.” Park Sang-woo, The World of Internet Games, Koreana 16 no4 38-41 Wint 2002

The Case of Eastern University
Nearly half of the student population are either distance learners or commuters
Student and faculty found in varied locations within the United States
Growing population of students found in international sites.

The Case of Eastern University
Our students are found in:
South Africa,
Brazil,
Thailand,
Romania
China
Ghana,
Ecuador,
Peru,
Costa Rica, and the
Philippines
India
South Korea
Austria

A Global Community
How do we provide services?
How do we do academic support?
How do we do research instruction?
How do we do reference?

Web 2.0 The Social Web
Wikis
Blogs
Social Search Engines
RSS feeds
Instant Messaging
Meetups /social networking
Online social gaming

The Virtual Learning Commons
A place in cyber space to bring together all the University’s online resources
Blackboard
E-journals
E-books
Distance learning
Distance reference

The Virtual Learning Commons A place in cyberspace to build a community

A Place for On-line Classes

A Place for Library Services

A Place to Access E-Resources

A Place to Meet Friends and Colleagues

A Place to Grow Community

“ Increased user contribution leads to the growth of “collective intelligence” and reusable dynamic content. Such engagement with content promotes a sense of community, empowerment, and ownership for users”
Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Steve Wheeler (2007)
The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education 1
Health Information and Libraries Journal 24 (1), 2–23.
doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00701.x

VBI Phase IV
A year long experiment that opened VBI to the community!
Student workers
Volunteers
Alumnae
Librarians
Faculty
International Friends

Mandi’s Place

Fred’s Place

Kristin’s Place

Matt’s Place

Teresa’s Place

Ted’s Place

Mi Young’s Place

Fran’s Place

Main Street

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