MAKING E-LEARNING AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING SEAMLESS

MAKING E-LEARNINGANDTRADITIONAL LEARNINGSEAMLESS Robert FelsingEast Asian Bibliographer University of Oregonfelsing@uoregon.edu 31 October 2005

LIBRARY TEACHING ASSETS • Technology • Organization • Expertise • Experience

CURRENT DICHOTOMIES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING E-Learning versus Traditional learning • Digital versus print • Reliability versus unreliability • Lecture versus interactive

SMOOTHING DIFFERENCES: LEARNING “CONTAINERS” • Delivery and course management systems: Blackboard

BLACKBOARD USEAGE AT OREGON: CONSISTENT GROWTH SINCE 1999 Statistics as of 10 Nov 2004: • 17,929 student users(85% of all students) • 955active fall-term or fall-sem Banner (CRN) course sites • 978 faculty, GTFs, and staff teaching using Blackboard • Approx. 53,000 fall course site enrollments (estimate: at least half of all UO student credit hours now have a Blackboard component) • Approximately 1,500,000 web server hits/day, 12,000 logins/day

SMOOTHING DIFFERENCES: CONTENT • Library emphasis on Imagery • Special Collections • Commercial packages for Art History • GIS

Diglib webpage

SMOOTHING DIFFERENCES: CONTENT • Text remains King of the information hill • Dominance of the OPAC and Its Evolution • As a full text delivery system • Electronic Resources Management

Scholars Bank

SMOOTHING DIFFERENCES: CONTENT • E-Journals • E-Reserves • This term: 35% in e-reserve (over 3,000 items) • In 2004, printed course packets declined 25% • Growing preference for digital materials

SMOOTHING DIFFERENCES: CONTENT • Text remains King of the information hill, BUT digital books lack acceptance • Publisher resistance and library reluctance • The Ipod phenomenon • Digital textbook use at the University Of Oregon

etextbook

DIGITAL PROJECT: E-ASIA • Opportunistic response to classroom needs (real and anticipated) • Special Projects • Audio, video, imagery, maps, etc. • Bibliographies • Reference tools (dictionaries, weights & measures, etc.)

Projects-in-Progress

Hearn

Bird

Bing

Korean War

Buddhism

Early Empire

Secret Societies

MAKING E-LEARNING AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING SEAMLESS

MAKING E-LEARNING AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING SEAMLESS

Presentation Transcript

Multilingual Education from Traditional to e-Learning

Teaching, learning and ILT/e-learning

Traditional Learning Theories

e-Learning B-Learning

Traditional Learning Theories

Learning E-Learning: Introduction

Learning Traditional Martial Arts

Role of E-learning Champions in Making Your E-learning Initi

E-learning vs. traditional learning

E-Learning and Distance Learning Symposium

E-Learning vs. Traditional Classrooms

Decision Making and Learning

Multilingual Education from Traditional to e-Learning

Traditional Universities and the E-Learning Needs of Practitioners

From traditional to e-learning: case studies

E-learning and learning at K.U.Leuven

Learning Commons and e-Learning Centre

e-Learning and Mobile Learning Software

Learning and Decision Making

Traditional Universities and the E-Learning Needs of Practitioners