Thoughts from Kenyon Conference
Talks by:
- Rich Eckman, President CIC
- President’s Perspectives
- Faculty Perspectives
Opening Session. Rich Eckman
Distinguish content and tools. Library deals with content, IS tools?
But content moving from physical Library -> Web , and stacks -> Information Commons.
Patterns of information use are changing.
- Undergraduate education. No longer faculty -> student. Learner centered. Active learning. Internet based pedagogies. Finding material, assessing quality. drifted into practice.
- Library. Changing learning styles Biggest issue is course design. Library holdings in 1990s treated as assets -> 2000s as liabilities . Library cost increases since 1976, salaries > 300% but materials > 600%
Other points :
- Lessons from recent history about making good decisions about Technology. JSTOR — what if they had stuck with tried and tested microfilm rather than move to OCR full text? Better decision made. Is there an equivalent tipping point today?
- (Failure to) act to challenge limitations in copyright and fair use — sat of sidelines . Implications of GooglePrint.
Inability to use online information intelligently (why? No user friendly interface!).
Idea:
Copyright Values under Assault
Lawrence Lessig & Siva Vaidhyanathan (author of The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System ) VS
Conversations about copyright:
- Effect of limitations on fair use
- Intellectual adventurers hit iron curtain of copyright
- copyright straitjacket on academic freedom
- mix and mash —
- Media domination of copyright debate
- Is Moodle a solution ? Not in the long term.
- What about my stuff — Creative Commons
President’s Perspectives
Doug Bennett:
- Institution = mobilization of bias. Remake institution = remobilize bias.
Georgia Nugent (Kenyon)
- Collaborative style. redesign way to serve students. drive out fear, build trust, make great things happen.
- Constituents do not distinguish between knowledge tools and content.
- Frustrating — lament about student’s use of Google equivalent to the lament of the use of the horseless carriage. Time to cease wringing hands and seize opportunity. Move from information to understanding.
- Google Library a tremendous advance. Channel into productive ways.
- Organizational structures -> human relationships. [ Google -> Social s/w. Google is now a verb. ]
- appropriate use of online resources is not a new issue. Judging quality.
Faculty Perspectives
- John Collins. Physics Wheaton. Used Technology Enabled Active Learning in purpose transformed classroom. centre for collaborative learning:
- teaching space (day)
- workspace for students and faculty
- tutoring centre (night)
Comment
Think about intentional structure to bring faculty / Instruct Tech together.
Instructional Tech support group. ITSG
- Core Moodle testers.
- Blog testing / podcasting
- Consultative Ideas -> action
- Pedagogy ideas
- What do you want from Moodle
- Image management
- Presentation with out Powerpoint
Posted by markp at March 15, 2006 04:07 PM