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http://www.lolaexchange.org. Thanks to Davis Education Foundation NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (CTW Information Literacy Project) Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College.
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Thanks to Davis Education Foundation NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (CTW Information Literacy Project) Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College
"It took only twenty five years for the overhead projector to make it from the bowling alley to the classroom. I'm optimistic about academic computing; I've begun to see computers in bowling alleys." --George Landow Hypertext: The convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology, 1991
Production of learning objects • who makes them? • how do they make them? • Discovery of learning objects • how do people find them? • how do people evaluate them? • Use of learning objects • how do they get used? • do they improve (liberal arts) education?
What is a learning object? http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu
Editorial Evaluation LoLa InfoLit Final metadata contributorsubmits Yes! managing editorroutes Music No! General Other
Cataloging and Evaluation Details • Information Literacy, Music, and General Editorial Boards in place • Planning for formation of additional editorial boards • Cataloger from MIT’s OpenCourseware project adding materials to be evaluated (~1,000 by January 2005)
Next Steps: Evaluating Proposals Proposal Evaluation Production InfoLit Proposal Yes! managing editorroutes Music No! General Other
LoLa Architecture: Data Perspective Google scholar Merlot dspace WorldCat lola oai metalib blackboard
LoLa Architecture: One (Future) User Perspective Google scholar merlot worldcat Coursemanagementsystem Federated search (metalib) lola
Over the last decade, American higher education has created a doughnut IT infrastructure: all periphery and no center. We have invested in the machinery but not in the teachers and the scholars to make that machinery worthwhile in the classroom and in scholarship. The massive investment in networks and computers will not pay off until we fill in the hole, until we work together to create content. From “Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped (Yet)”By Edward L. Ayers and Charles M. Grisham EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 38, no. 6 (November/December 2003): 40–51.
Things You Might Do Next • Add your learning objects to LoLa • Join Academic Commons and contribute materials • Point your federated search engine of choice at LoLa (instructions to be posted on LoLa website) • Use Information Literacy modules in your instruction program • Document HOW you used these modules
Michael Roymichael.roy@wesleyan.edu • These slides at http://mroy.web.wesleyan.edu/talks/ctlibraries-october05/