Libraries in the Digital Age: What If...?
ECDL 2007 Workshop - Details
Date: 21st September 2007
Duration: 1 Day (9am - 4pm approx.)
Registration: Available Now - Please note that you can register for this workshop as a one day event or for the full conference
Early registration deadline: 31st July 2007
Final registration deadline: 31st August 2007
Travel/Arrival information: Follow this link to the ECDL website
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Structure:
Prior to workshop:
- Selection process and preparatory work by participants.
On the day:
- Keynote presentations and scene setting.
- Short presentations of case studies and discussion.
- Elaboration of scenarios and preparation of a poster defining each scenario (using examples/images/quotes brought along by participants).
- Café conversation around each of the scenarios. Participants move tables at intervals whilst a convenor remains to connect ideas and build on previous conversations.
- Synthesis of the benefits and risks inherent in each scenario and decisions about what they will contribute to the 'New Build'.
- Design of a Library for the 21st century.
Background work:
The workshop will build on a number of strands of development activity and synthesis of good practice.
Digital Libraries in the Classroom - The projects supplying case studies are part of the JISC Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme (DLIC) (see also Project Videos). The programme is examining how integrating recent technical developments with digital content will improve the learning experience of students and provide new models for the classroom including the impact of integration on student achievement, retention, recruitment and on institutional structures and practices. The projects have developed and used a range of innovative technologies to answer a specific pedagogical need across a number of disciplines; Humanities, Geography, Design Engineering and Anthropology. Led by academic staff, all of the projects required the input from multidisciplinary teams including librarians, learning technologists and educational developers. Specific objectives are to:
- bring emerging technologies and available digital content into core teaching and learning.
- develop and use innovative approaches in integrating technologies for the benefit of undergraduate teaching.
- demonstrate how the pedagogical process needs to be adapted or developed to support the learning process when using technology.
- examine the human and organisational issues associated with implementing new modes of teaching.
The projects are:
- Spoken Word Services led by Glasgow Caledonian University, Northwestern University and Michigan State University in partnership with the BBC exploring the use of digital audio in the humanities.
- DialogPLUS a partnership between the University of Southampton, the University of Leeds, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, working in the Geography discipline.
- DIDET a partnership between the University of Strathclyde and Stanford University working in the design engineering discipline.
- DART a partnership between the London School of Economics and Columbia University in the discipline of Anthropology.
Change Management - A key feature of the DLIC Programme is around the institutional embedding of these new approaches, models and technologies. The DLIC programme led a workshop at ECDL 2006 which focused on Critical Success Factors for Institutional Change (CSFIC). JISC infoNet participated in the CSFIC workshop at ECDL 2006 and has produced an in-depth resource on this topic http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits
Planning and Designing Technology-Rich Learning Spaces - Les Watson was the lead consultant on this JISC infoNet resource that looks at all aspects of learning space design across the sector. A range of library/LRC developments are featured in the resource which features developments at the DLIC project hosts Glasgow Caledonian University, the University of Strathclyde, and London School of Economics.
