The library & teaching & learning: reading list systems. Reading lists appear to be the new 'must have' for UK academic libraries and a raft of new systems has entered the market. Ken's presentation at a seminar at the University of Staffordshire in December 2012 looked at some of the underlying trends in Higher Education and the current reading list offerings
Are you a visionary ‘early adopter’ or a laggard in terms of ‘next generation’ Library Services Platforms? Ken is presenting at the 2014 UKSG conference on 14th and 15th April. There has been much interest and some hype about a new generation of ‘Library Services Platforms’ that are replacing library management systems (LMS) (or, in US parlance, ILS). Ken looks at library systems in terms of the technology adoption life cycle described and analysed by Geoffrey Moore in his book ‘Crossing the chasm’.
The evolution of digital libraries as socio-technical systemsKaren S Calhoun
Introduces and orients participants to digital libraries as socio-technical systems--that is, systems based on the interplay of technology, information, and people. The objective is to expose thematic connections between digital library infrastructure, cultural heritage and scholarly collections, social forces, and online community building. Key challenges of the current environment include interoperability, community engagement, intellectual property rights, and sustainability. Invited presentation for the Nimitiz Library staff, US Naval Academy.
Exploring Digital Libraries: Chapter by Chapter Summary by Facet PublishingKaren S Calhoun
From Facet Publishing, on the new book by Karen Calhoun. From book cover: "thought-provoking and practical, [the text] not only weaves an enormous amount of content into a manageable resource for teaching and learning, but also covers new topics in the field, including digital library roles on the social web and in libraries' digital future."
Explores how library collections have been, are and will be built in the context of changing information-seeking behavior, changes in the nature of collections, the social web, and new enabling technology.
Library Process Redesign: Renewing Services, Changing Workflows Karen S Calhoun
Invited presentation for Cambridge University Library, 10 February 2011. Reviews trends in research library collections including e-resources and special collections; discusses principles and practice of library process redesign to free up time for new initiatives.
Are you a visionary ‘early adopter’ or a laggard in terms of ‘next generation’ Library Services Platforms? Ken is presenting at the 2014 UKSG conference on 14th and 15th April. There has been much interest and some hype about a new generation of ‘Library Services Platforms’ that are replacing library management systems (LMS) (or, in US parlance, ILS). Ken looks at library systems in terms of the technology adoption life cycle described and analysed by Geoffrey Moore in his book ‘Crossing the chasm’.
The evolution of digital libraries as socio-technical systemsKaren S Calhoun
Introduces and orients participants to digital libraries as socio-technical systems--that is, systems based on the interplay of technology, information, and people. The objective is to expose thematic connections between digital library infrastructure, cultural heritage and scholarly collections, social forces, and online community building. Key challenges of the current environment include interoperability, community engagement, intellectual property rights, and sustainability. Invited presentation for the Nimitiz Library staff, US Naval Academy.
Exploring Digital Libraries: Chapter by Chapter Summary by Facet PublishingKaren S Calhoun
From Facet Publishing, on the new book by Karen Calhoun. From book cover: "thought-provoking and practical, [the text] not only weaves an enormous amount of content into a manageable resource for teaching and learning, but also covers new topics in the field, including digital library roles on the social web and in libraries' digital future."
Explores how library collections have been, are and will be built in the context of changing information-seeking behavior, changes in the nature of collections, the social web, and new enabling technology.
Library Process Redesign: Renewing Services, Changing Workflows Karen S Calhoun
Invited presentation for Cambridge University Library, 10 February 2011. Reviews trends in research library collections including e-resources and special collections; discusses principles and practice of library process redesign to free up time for new initiatives.
Engaging Your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries Karen S Calhoun
Based on the book Exploring Digital Libraries, this ALA Techsource webinar examines cultural heritage collections in the context of the social web and online communities. Calhoun and Brenner explore the possibilities and provide examples of digital libraries' shift toward social platforms, along the way discussing how to increase discoverability and community engagement, for instance through crowdsourcing.
Rightscaling, engagement, learning: reconfiguring the library for a network e...lisld
The edge of the world. Theta 2013: the Higher Education Technology Agenda. Hobart, Tasmania, 7-10 April, 2013.
The network continues to reconfigure personal and organizational relationships. Libraries face three important challenges in this environment.
1. Rightscaling infrastructure.
Libraries were predominantly ‘institution-scale’ – they provided services at the level of the institution for their local users. However, their users now look to the network for information services (e.g. Google Scholar, Wikipedia, …). And libraries now look to the network to collaborate or to externalize services (e.g. HathiTrust, cloud-based discovery or systems, shared systems infrastructure, …). In this environment the need for local infrastructure declines (e.g. extensive print collections, redundantly deployed local systems which provide necessary but not distinctive services). The scale advantage manifests itself in both impact and efficiency.
2. The shift to engagement.
Users used to build their workflows around libraries. Now the library needs to build services around user workflows, as those workflows form around network services. Libraries used to acquire and organize ‘published’ materials. Now they are engaged with the full range of creation, management and disclosure of learning and scholarly resources. Library spaces were configured around print collections; now they are configured around experiences, expertise, and specialist facilities. These are all examples of how libraries are reallocating resource and effort to engage more strongly with the learning and research lives of their users, improving the learning experience and making research more productive and research outputs more visible.
3. Institutional innovation
Innovation is important, especially to support greater engagement. But in many ways the most important form of innovation is institutional. Libraries have to develop new and routine ways of collaborating to achieve their goals. At the same time they have to negotiate internal boundaries and forge new structures within institutions. In each case, they are developing new ‘relationship architectures’. Think for example of the institutional innovation required to move to shared systems and collections in the Orbis Cascade Alliance or 2CUL for example. Or think of the innovative approach which makes new relationships within institutions (with Learning and Teaching Support, with the Office of Research, the University Press, emerging e-research infrastructure, IT, etc, for example, or with various educational or social services in a public setting). Evolving such relationships requires an enterprising approach and ensures continual learning.
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
Challenges facing Academic Librarians with Examples from LebanonHoueida Kammourié
This is a presentation given during Elsevier LibraryConnect Seminar held on April 17, 2012 at Riyad Nassar Library, Lebanese American University, Beirut - Lebanon
Rethinking Library Cooperatives: Prepared for the Program for Cooperative Cat...Karen S Calhoun
In the context of current initiatives around linked data and cloud-based service frameworks, the presentation invites exploration of future directions that library cooperatives might take to significantly improve the visibility and recognition of library collections on the web.
Twist is an Open World Information Sharing Network which provides a platform to the users searching information on the same project that directly publishes the new updates for a desired category or group of categories to the people who had enrolled as that category for their Personal interest.
Presentation for Librarian/Archivists/Technology Conference held at the Academy in St. Charles on April 17, 2010 for the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
Additional challenges added by the group (slide 5):
*Collaboration
*Communication
*Speed of Change
*Time
*Technology
*Misunderstood
*Money
*Skill Sets
*Obsolescence
Transformation of library and information science: Resources, services and pr...Nabi Hasan
Transformation of Libraries
Role of Librarian: Traditional Vs in eEnvironment
Emerging and Innovative Library Resources, Services and Products
Upgrading Professional competencies
Importance of Five Laws in eReading environment
Is there a need of Libraries and Librarians in the current digital era?
How to be a Smart Librarian by Smart Involvements
Summing up
THRIVING ON DISRUPTION The reinvention of the public library Liz McGettigan
DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED
THE RESPONSIVE, ACTIVE LIBRARY,THE PEOPLE, SPACES, TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES OF THE FUTURE. - examples of library transformations, an exploration of the future for libraries
Integrating library services more closely with the student’s learning environment has long been a goal. A recent report on course reading from a Canadian university probably sums up the attitude of most UK academic libraries. ‘The Library has long placed a strong emphasis on working directly with faculty to tailor its services and resources to academic programs and integrate them at the point of need’. For over a decade the library/learning system space has been contested by a variety of approaches. It remains imperfectly resolved.
Ken spoke at the University College London (UCL) and Ciber research event ‘Digital textbooks: where are we?’ in May 2018. He outlined some of the drivers and themes that are influencing the future of e-textbooks and digital learning resources. He focused on the student as consumer, the user experience, digital platforms and the importance of data and analytics.
Pedagogy and School Libraries: Developing agile approaches in a digital ageJudy O'Connell
Libraries for future learners: one day conference to inspire, connect and inform teacher librarians and school leaders thinking about future learning needs. This presentation was a keynote conversation starter to open up a wide range of topics for other presentations and workshop activities sharing examplars, tools and strategies related to future learning. Held at Rydges World Square, Sydney.
Emerging technologies and the future of libraries (and library systems). Keyn...Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Global technology trends and new directions in Higher Education will clearly affect the future of academic libraries and the nature of library technology. A common thread is the increasing focus on the user/consumer in an increasingly digital economy. For example a leading information technology research and advisory company, Gartner states ('Top 10 strategic predictions for 2015') that: "Renovating the customer experience is a digital priority." What should libraries and library tech companies do? Ken argues that the first step is looking again at user needs and suggests an innovative and practical methodology to help
Engaging Your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries Karen S Calhoun
Based on the book Exploring Digital Libraries, this ALA Techsource webinar examines cultural heritage collections in the context of the social web and online communities. Calhoun and Brenner explore the possibilities and provide examples of digital libraries' shift toward social platforms, along the way discussing how to increase discoverability and community engagement, for instance through crowdsourcing.
Rightscaling, engagement, learning: reconfiguring the library for a network e...lisld
The edge of the world. Theta 2013: the Higher Education Technology Agenda. Hobart, Tasmania, 7-10 April, 2013.
The network continues to reconfigure personal and organizational relationships. Libraries face three important challenges in this environment.
1. Rightscaling infrastructure.
Libraries were predominantly ‘institution-scale’ – they provided services at the level of the institution for their local users. However, their users now look to the network for information services (e.g. Google Scholar, Wikipedia, …). And libraries now look to the network to collaborate or to externalize services (e.g. HathiTrust, cloud-based discovery or systems, shared systems infrastructure, …). In this environment the need for local infrastructure declines (e.g. extensive print collections, redundantly deployed local systems which provide necessary but not distinctive services). The scale advantage manifests itself in both impact and efficiency.
2. The shift to engagement.
Users used to build their workflows around libraries. Now the library needs to build services around user workflows, as those workflows form around network services. Libraries used to acquire and organize ‘published’ materials. Now they are engaged with the full range of creation, management and disclosure of learning and scholarly resources. Library spaces were configured around print collections; now they are configured around experiences, expertise, and specialist facilities. These are all examples of how libraries are reallocating resource and effort to engage more strongly with the learning and research lives of their users, improving the learning experience and making research more productive and research outputs more visible.
3. Institutional innovation
Innovation is important, especially to support greater engagement. But in many ways the most important form of innovation is institutional. Libraries have to develop new and routine ways of collaborating to achieve their goals. At the same time they have to negotiate internal boundaries and forge new structures within institutions. In each case, they are developing new ‘relationship architectures’. Think for example of the institutional innovation required to move to shared systems and collections in the Orbis Cascade Alliance or 2CUL for example. Or think of the innovative approach which makes new relationships within institutions (with Learning and Teaching Support, with the Office of Research, the University Press, emerging e-research infrastructure, IT, etc, for example, or with various educational or social services in a public setting). Evolving such relationships requires an enterprising approach and ensures continual learning.
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
Challenges facing Academic Librarians with Examples from LebanonHoueida Kammourié
This is a presentation given during Elsevier LibraryConnect Seminar held on April 17, 2012 at Riyad Nassar Library, Lebanese American University, Beirut - Lebanon
Rethinking Library Cooperatives: Prepared for the Program for Cooperative Cat...Karen S Calhoun
In the context of current initiatives around linked data and cloud-based service frameworks, the presentation invites exploration of future directions that library cooperatives might take to significantly improve the visibility and recognition of library collections on the web.
Twist is an Open World Information Sharing Network which provides a platform to the users searching information on the same project that directly publishes the new updates for a desired category or group of categories to the people who had enrolled as that category for their Personal interest.
Presentation for Librarian/Archivists/Technology Conference held at the Academy in St. Charles on April 17, 2010 for the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
Additional challenges added by the group (slide 5):
*Collaboration
*Communication
*Speed of Change
*Time
*Technology
*Misunderstood
*Money
*Skill Sets
*Obsolescence
Transformation of library and information science: Resources, services and pr...Nabi Hasan
Transformation of Libraries
Role of Librarian: Traditional Vs in eEnvironment
Emerging and Innovative Library Resources, Services and Products
Upgrading Professional competencies
Importance of Five Laws in eReading environment
Is there a need of Libraries and Librarians in the current digital era?
How to be a Smart Librarian by Smart Involvements
Summing up
THRIVING ON DISRUPTION The reinvention of the public library Liz McGettigan
DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED
THE RESPONSIVE, ACTIVE LIBRARY,THE PEOPLE, SPACES, TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES OF THE FUTURE. - examples of library transformations, an exploration of the future for libraries
Integrating library services more closely with the student’s learning environment has long been a goal. A recent report on course reading from a Canadian university probably sums up the attitude of most UK academic libraries. ‘The Library has long placed a strong emphasis on working directly with faculty to tailor its services and resources to academic programs and integrate them at the point of need’. For over a decade the library/learning system space has been contested by a variety of approaches. It remains imperfectly resolved.
Ken spoke at the University College London (UCL) and Ciber research event ‘Digital textbooks: where are we?’ in May 2018. He outlined some of the drivers and themes that are influencing the future of e-textbooks and digital learning resources. He focused on the student as consumer, the user experience, digital platforms and the importance of data and analytics.
Pedagogy and School Libraries: Developing agile approaches in a digital ageJudy O'Connell
Libraries for future learners: one day conference to inspire, connect and inform teacher librarians and school leaders thinking about future learning needs. This presentation was a keynote conversation starter to open up a wide range of topics for other presentations and workshop activities sharing examplars, tools and strategies related to future learning. Held at Rydges World Square, Sydney.
Emerging technologies and the future of libraries (and library systems). Keyn...Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Global technology trends and new directions in Higher Education will clearly affect the future of academic libraries and the nature of library technology. A common thread is the increasing focus on the user/consumer in an increasingly digital economy. For example a leading information technology research and advisory company, Gartner states ('Top 10 strategic predictions for 2015') that: "Renovating the customer experience is a digital priority." What should libraries and library tech companies do? Ken argues that the first step is looking again at user needs and suggests an innovative and practical methodology to help
A focus on measurement and assessment of teaching and
learning outcomes has become entrenched in policy and the
strategies of academic institutions. In the UK this trend has
crystallised in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
Librarians are increasingly managing course-specific resources
that up to now had been the province of the Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) or digital textbook platforms. This session
looks at the impacts on content and licensing, e-textbooks and the potential merging of library and educational technology
Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Challenges for Online Learning and Teaching: A Subjective Academic Narrative ....................................................... 1
Dr Josie Arnold
Mapping Preservice Teachers’ Metaphors of Teaching and Learning........................................................................... 13
Daniel Casebeer
The Comparison of Mediating Models for Stimulating Imagination with Psychological and Environmental
Factors ................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Yuling Hsu
Using Mobile Devices to Improve Educational Outcomes: An Analysis in Primary Education................................ 28
Dr. Fang-Chun Ou
Implementation of Peer Reviews: Online Learning ........................................................................................................ 46
Julia Colella-Sandercock, Orrin-Porter Morrison, Jill Singleton-Jackson and Antonio Robert Verbora
Application of Conditional Means for Diagnostic Scoring.............................................................................................. 61
Hollis Lai, Mark J. Gierl and Oksana Babenko
Institutional Strategies and Practices for Integrating Learning Technologies in the Inner, Outer and Virtual Spaces
................................................................................................................................................................................................. 80
Rogerio L. Roth
Funding and Spending for Mainstreaming Support for OVC in Public Nursery Schools in Nyeri Country, Kenya:
Practice, Constraints and Policy.......................................................................................................................................... 98
Grace Githae, Paul Amolo Odundo, Boniface Ngaruiya, Ganira Khavugwi Lilian and Inda A. Nancy
This presentation was provided by Joan Lippincott of The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), during Session Eight of the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics in a 21st Century Pandemic," held on November 6, 2020.
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
Presentation for the 2010 Virtual Academic Library Environment (VALE) Annual Conference. Discusses the issues in teaching information literacy to this new generation of college students.
A focus on the themes especially relevant to libraries - Data; Curation, Ethics.Collections, Research Teaching and Learning/ Student Success & Student Wellbeing
Presented at Internet Librarian International on 15th October 2019
In 2017 the Economist magazine, in a much quoted article said, ‘the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. Smartphones and the internet have made data abundant, ubiquitous and far more valuable”. While data may be abundant, in the world of libraries, publishers and intermediaries it is typically siloed and the value and potential to improve services has barely begun to be realised. On their own, data from libraries, publishers or conventional intermediaries will not be enough to deliver the kinds of predictive analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that emerging. Commercial companies and sector bodies like Jisc have begun to develop platforms that make use of data from a variety of sources. This will be an intensely competitive environment and it is not yet clear who the winners will be for, as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the world economic
Ken Chad presented the keynote at the EDS (Ebsco Discovery Services) conference at Regents University, London in July 2016. He reviewed future trends for Google and enterprise search including factors such as voice (‘conversational’) search, the ‘ultimate assistant’, entities (‘things not strings’), visual search and the role of big data, context and intention. He then looked and some trends in library discovery services. There will continue to be a multiplicity of approaches open to users and Ken recommended that libraries do more to focus on the needs of users– the ‘jobs’ they were trying to do– in order to acquire and/or innovate new approaches to library discovery services.
Entrepreneurial library article_emerging_trends_conference_ken_chad_december2014Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Writing in Library Journal in August 2010, Eric Hellman noted: “Libraries are so valuable that they attract voracious new competition with every technological advance.” The failure of libraries and library vendors to successfully create systems that meet the full range of legitimate user needs is a major concern. Ken Chad reviews the competitive and strategic imperatives that should lead libraries to a more user focussed approach. Fortunately there are some pragmatic and useful tools that libraries, working with vendors and/or developers, can use to help them develop or acquire better products services. Ken Chad briefly outlines the 'Jobs-To-Be-Done' (JTBD) method which is widely used in business and he has adapted for use in libraries
Re-awakening the 'Peoples University' - the learning agenda opportunity to reinvigorate public libraries. Community, informal (outside formal academic institutions) and online learning is a growing, disruptive opportunity. Learning happens best where there is a ‘community’ of support and good learning spaces. Public libraries have an opportunity to thrive if they develop the right capabilities to deliver a compelling learning offer. Presented at the CILIP "Re-imaging Learning" Executive Briefing on 13th November 2014
The public library and the 21st century ‘People’s University’
Back in 1938 Alvin Johnson argued that we should: “develop the public library into a permanent centre of adult education, informally a people's university” . In the 21st century new winds of change are blowing through learning. Social economic and technology factors combine to create new challenges and opportunities. Public libraries have a huge opportunity to revitalise their long standing commitment to learning and reinvigorate themselves at the heart of the process. Access to Research, CORE and others initiatives now provide public libraries with free access to millions of journal articles. The question is how, in the 21st century, public libraries will galvanise these resources and develop communities of learners.
Research process and research data management. Many universities are looking at how they can better serve the needs of researchers. Ken Chad Consulting worked with the University of Westminster to look the needs and attitudes of researchers and admin staff in terms of research data management (RDM). The result led the University to look first at the whole lifecycle and workflows of research administration. This in turn led to the innovative, rapid development of a system to support researchers and admin staff. Presented by Suzanne Enright (University of Westminster) and Ken Chad at the annual UKSG conference in April 2014
What are ebooks for? As libraries struggle with issues around ebook platforms, digital rights management (DRM), business models, and ebook formats it is worth stepping back and revisiting the fundamental issue of what ebooks are for. Keynote Presentation at the “Ebooks 2014: Are we nearly there yet?” Conference. University of the West of England 7 April 2014 #ebooksuwe2014
In increasingly complex information landscapes, is it time to stop thinking in terms of the library management system (LMS) or integrated library system (ILS), or even a ‘library services platform’ – and instead start talking about an ‘ecosystem’.
Library infrastructure: value for money? Ken gave a short presentation at the Jisc Library System Programme Workshop on 15th July 2013. It looked at the value and business case for making changes to library technology infrastructure. The workshop was a chance for the projects that made up the programme to talk about the work they had done and the tools and resources they have created, and a chance for the community to discuss some of the issues and challenges that the sector currently faces. The workshop had three main strands that explored:
Collaborative Systems and Services;
Transforming workflows and practices
Tools and Techniques for Systems Change
Library systems are no longer ‘stand alone’. Global technology influences are driving the market more than ever. There is a risk that the solutions libraries provide remain detached from truly meeting the real needs of many users - staff , academics, researchers and students.
Instead of library systems.or even 'next generation' library services platforms we need to think in terms of the wider library technology ‘ecosystem’. That changes how make our decisions about the products we buy and the services libraries deliver
‘Trends in, and reflections on, library discovery services’. Ken was the keynote speaker at the JIBS event: ‘New dawn: the changing resource discovery landscape’ in February 2013.
The application of strategy methodologies to libraries. What is strategy? It's not Mission or vision. The key elements. Also a brief discussion of business models
This presentation is based on work I have been doing with libraries and some businesses in the library & information sector.I look at framework to explore business models that I believe is helpful for all kinds of organizations and businesses
Time for strategy: Ken was the keynote speaker at the 2011 National Acquisitions Group (NAG) conference in Manchester on 7th September. Libraries in all sectors face the challenge of relentless, disruptive, technology-driven change and tough economic times. Libraries are under pressure and there is a risk that decisions are made without an appreciation of their strategic importance. This is a good time then to look at some approaches to strategy, differentiating it from ‘mission’ and looking at business models.
Perspective on resource list/reading list managemnt_cilip_update_june2010Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
How has the management of academic resource lists changed, what are library management systems vendors offering and how are resource lists being handled in a social media environment?
Published in Library & Information Update (p.39-41). CILIP June 2010
Libraries anxious to improve their relevance to students have been busy, over the last couple of years, purchasing vertical search/discovery service solutions. In ‘the rise of platforms could see off the web‘ Ken Chad analyses this in the wider context of the the rise of global platforms and ‘apps’.
Models of innovation-sustaining and disruptive are discussed. How can libraries respond. How are they responding. What strategies might libraries adopt
The library & teaching & learning: reading list systems
1. the library & teaching & learning:
reading list systems
University of Staffordshire
Seminar December 2012
kenchadconsulting
Ken Chad
Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
ken@kenchadconsulting.com
Tel: +44 (0)7788 727 845
www.kenchadconsulting.com
Twitter : @kenchad
2. putting reading list systems
into context
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aren’t reading lists one attempt to bring the
library and teaching & learning closer
together?
3. some questions
(to which I still don’t have the answers)
why don’t the major library systems vendors
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offer reading list systems?
reading list systems are the new ‘must have’
have for UK academic libraries. So why don’t
US academic libraries seem interested?
4. putting reading list systems into
context
what’s happening in Higher
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Education?
5. a US perspective first
(the themes will be common to the UK but adoption rates may differ)
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6. 'universities are clinging to a medieval concept
of education in an age of mass enrolment. In a
recent book, “Reinventing Higher Education”,
Ben Wildavsky and his colleagues at the
Kauffman Foundation, which focuses on
entrepreneurship, add that there has been
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a failure to innovate.'
[Higher education] Not what it used to be. American universities represent declining value for
money to their students. Economist 1st Dec 2012http://www.economist.com/news/united-
states/21567373-american-universities-represent-declining-value-money-their-students-not-
what-it
7. The strategy of universities tends to be one of imitation
(of the top ones) rather than innovation. This tends to
solidify past educational practice among traditional
universities making them more expensive but not
fundamentally better from a learning standpoint. This is
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essentially a 'sustaining' innovation model.
online learning is the
High quality
major technological disruptive
force
'The Innovative University. Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the inside out'. Clayton
M Christensen and Henry J Eyring. Jossey-Bass (Wiley). 2011
8. 'The broader significance of MOOCs is that they are part of a
trend towards the unbundling of higher education. ...
universities will come under pressure to move to something
more like a “buffet” arrangement, under which they will
accept credits from each other—and from students who take
courses at home or even at high school, spending much less
kenchadconsulting
time on campus. StraighterLine, a start-up based in
Baltimore, is already selling courses that gain students
credits for a few hundred dollars.'
[Higher education] Not what it used to be. American universities represent declining value for
money to their students. Economist 1st Dec 2012http://www.economist.com/news/united-
states/21567373-american-universities-represent-declining-value-money-their-students-not-
what-it
9. 'Almost a third of students these days do not take any
courses that involve more than 40 pages of reading
over an entire term. Moreover, students are spending
measurably less time studying and more on recreation.'
kenchadconsulting
[Higher education] Not what it used to be. American universities represent declining value for
money to their students. Economist 1st Dec 2012http://www.economist.com/news/united-
states/21567373-american-universities-represent-declining-value-money-their-students-not-
what-it
10. Higher Education Technology Trends
(Gilfus Education Group 2012)
Prestigious institutions will launch online experiences
designed to be as unique as those available to students
on campus
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‘Dynamic and flexible learning experience engines’ will
emerge to replace learning management systems
Tablets will surge as a means of delivering courses and
e-learning media.
11. Higher Education Technology Trends
(Gilfus Education Group 2012)
E-Textbooks: 2012 will be a banner year for
digital textbooks on college and university
campuses. Retailers are also getting into the e-
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textbook game. The trend is towards not so
much e-books, as 'digital learning
environments’.
12. Higher Education Technology Trends
(Gilfus Education Group 2012)
Open Educational Resources: Higher education is
further along in thinking about open education
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resources and the kinds of things that can be
licensed for use and reuse.
13. Higher Education Technology Trends
(Gilfus Education Group 2012)
The Online Classroom: Textbooks won't be the only
educational resource that will see increased online
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delivery in 2012. The classroom itself will also exist
online more than ever before.
14. Higher Education Technology Trends
(Gilfus Education Group 2012)
Campuses move to the Cloud: With so many
resources and learning opportunities moving
online, and pressed by the need to reduce IT
infrastructure costs, more and more campuses will
kenchadconsulting
take advantage of the benefits provided by cloud
technologies.
16. ‘seven predictions for our technology enabled
universities’
Sarah Porter, Head of Innovation at JISC
5. the digital environment will provide more
opportunities for institutions to provide an enhanced
and customised student experience - Intelligent, data-
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driven systems will work with the student to support
them, to analyse their learning behaviour, to propose
resources that may help with areas of weakness or
further develop areas of interest.
‘Seven predictions for our technology enabled universities’. By Sarah Porter. JISC Inform Issue
33 [Future technologies]. 2012
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform33/FutureTechnologies.html
18. ‘With librarians poised between information and
knowledge, libraries have begun to question how they
can integrate learning management systems (a.k.a. e-
learning)—software that delivers and manages online
courses—into their daily operations. ....Moreover, the
inadequacies of integrated course reserves modules—
similar to the inadequacies of MARC for digital assets or
serials modules for ERM—have shown that the
kenchadconsulting
traditional ILS is (yet again) unable to support
the management of learning resources’
'Hot Conference Cool technology'. By Andrew K. Pace American Libraries. August 2004
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/techspeaking/techspeak2004/Aug2004Conference.cfm
19. strategy
'maintaining the library as a vibrant enterprise
worthy of support from our campuses':
(a five-part strategy)
4. ‘Reposition library and information tools, resources,
and expertise so it is embedded into the teaching,
learning, and research enterprises. This includes both
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human and, increasingly, computer-mediated systems.
Emphasis should be placed on external, not library-
centered, structures and systems’.
‘A Model Academic Libraries 2005 to 2025’. By David Lewis. 2006 (Paper to be presented at
‘Visions of Change,’ California State University at Sacramento, January 26, 2007)
https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/665/A%20Model%20Academic%20Libra
ries%202005%20to%202025.pdf?sequence=6
20. Organizing content to support research
and learning is at the heart of the library's
institutional role.
A growing collection of technologies and tools can be
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used to more granularly organize, customize, and
personalize the online information environment to fit
professional, learning, and research activities.
‘What Technology? Reflections on Evolving Services’. By Sharon Collins (EDUCAUSE Review
online). October 30, 2009 http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/what-technology-reflections-
evolving-services
21. integrate with the VLE
'it was time for librarians to figure out a way to be
where the students are..One place that is nearly
universal to the academic experience at Duke, however,
is the university’s learning management system,
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Blackboard’
'Embedding library resources into learning management systems
A way to reach Duke undergrads at their points of need' By Emily Daly
College & Research Libraries News vol. 71 no. 4 208-212 April 2010
22. ‘‘Given the decentralized academic environment, faculty
independence and the abundance of web tools
commonly available today, the vision of a single course
management system approach is waning. However,
there are significant drawbacks to an ad hoc approach:
individual faculty course web pages often don’t conform
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to accessibility standards, and students lack a course
portal that automatically provides all of their course
information through a single sign on’.
Queen’s University [Canada] Library. Course Readings Working Group Report. May 2009
http://library.queensu.ca/files/coursereadingsreport10June09.pdf
23. ‘There remains then a perceived need to deliver an
institutionally coherent approach to students that also
feeds into the library back-end processes’
A Perspective on Resource List Management By Ken Chad, Ken Chad
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Library & Information Update (p.39-41). CILIP June 2010
http://www.kenchadconsulting.com/wp-
content/uploads/2010/07/Perspective_on_Resourcelist_Manageemnt_CILIPUpdate_June2010.p
df
26. Reading list systems give the user a 'course/module' (or even week by week or
the course) view on library resources. They allow citations to be annotated (e.g.
'Read chapter 4' or 'essential reading'). In an increasingly electronic/digital age
links will be made from the reading list citation to the full text. For academic staff
they allow the maintenance of reading lists (with the ability to pull in new
citations) and ability to automatically link reading lists to library resources (in the
catalogue/discovery system).
Getting academics to use the 'library' reading list system has often proved
challenging and it is not uncommon to find that library manage the reading lists.
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For a library manager point of view links to the acquisition process will be helpful
(e.g. suggestions of what to buy, or where more copies are needed and usage
statistics).
The reading list will typically be closely linked (e.g. embedded) in the institutions
learning environment/VLE.
Reading List systems as described above appear to be a peculiarity of the UK
academic library scene. They are unlike (US centric) 'Course Reserve' modules of
a typical US ILS (LMS)
Higher Education Library Technology (HELibTech) wiki
http://helibtech.com/Reading_Resource+lists
28. some fell by the wayside...
Learnbuild
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List8D
'Open source reading list system.List8D was part of the
Information Environment Programme funded by the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC).
29. some are home grown
LORLS (Loughborough University)
LORLS (Loughborough Online Reading List System) developed by
the Systems Team at Loughborough University Library and made
available as open source. LORLS has been in use since June 2000
and recently has gone through a complete redevelopment.
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MyReading
'MyReading is a Computing & Library Services project to at the
University of Huddersfield' (in development)
EARL (Easy Access to Resource Lists) York University (in
development)
30. some take a library oriented
perspective
Talis Aspire (Talis Education Ltd.)
‘Talis Aspire is a cloud-based system with over 30 customers
in the UK and Australasia’.
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rebus:list (PTFS Europe)
'rebus:list is designed to manage all kinds of reading lists.
Fundamental to the design is the concept of complete reading
list management aimed at supporting the entire workflow of
generating, maintaining, and managing reading lists'.
31. others.....
unilibri
‘unilibri is launching in Semester 2 of the 2012/13 academic year.
unilibri is a software as a service, hosted in the cloud, meaning that
we are able to offer it for free to institutions.’
Studentreadinglists
‘Staff and students can create reading lists which are then made
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available on the studentreadinglists web site. The website provides a
central platform to 'compile, validate and share course resources.
Students .. purchase their course media from different providers The
sales commission is shared with your University'
Readinglists.co.uk (Blackwells)
A Blackwell's service that enables lecturers and others to submit
reading list details and as a result enable ordering of books on the list
from Blackwell
32. themes to watch
content
digital, fragmented, open, embedded pedagogy
infrastructure
cloud, big data, analytics
consumption
mobiles/tablets, social, personalised
34. the library & teaching & learning
reading list systems
University of Staffordshire
Seminar December 2012
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