136 research outputs found
Digitools Project. Blended curriculum
No full text[EN] The crisis generated by the COVID 19 pandemic has forced European universities to move their teaching activities to the online environment. Although most Higher Education Institutions have implemented E Learning platforms years ago, the teaching staff are now experiencing difficulties in using these platforms and in creating and adapting the course content, needed to quickly adapt to a fast evolving and complex situation. DIGITOOLS project aimed at introducing enhanced digital tools and methods to help universities staff deliver quality education through online means. The project brought together s ix Higher Education Institutions and one consulting SME, specialized in digitization, from s ix countries focusing on the implementation of online and blended teaching, encouraging, at every step, unitary practice. As a result of the DIGITOOLS project, the universities will be able to provide, through teaching staff and libraries, high quality online training courses, with a focus on subject specific teaching. The Blended Curriculum presented in this e book , one of the five Outputs of the project, will support the teaching staff from Higher Education Institutions to acquire the skills and competencies needed to create and deliver high quality online courses, including blended teaching. The role of university libraries is crucial in this project, as they have to adapt their services and provide digital learning materials as well as information and digital skills training, both to teaching staff and to students.Ferrándiz Bou, S.;Repanovici, A.;Koukourakis, M. (2023). Innovative Tools for Enhancing E-Learning Solutions in Universities. Blended Curriculum. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/20120
Information Literacy Applied on Electronic Resources - Practices from Brasov, Romania and Bergen, Norway
No full textWhat does the widespread access to Internet mean for the use of libraries? And how can information literacy assist in helping people cope with the new information behaviour shaped by Internet? The Internet represents the handiest, cheapest and commonly accessed source by all users, be they from academic, high school or other environments. The Internet provides a large amount of information in all fields. Universities and university libraries have the mission to educate the users’ practical and scientific spirit. Through different programs, courses, long life learning in university libraries there are envisaged competencies as follows: 1. Easy access to Internet resources; 2. Correct formulation of the search request in the search box; 3. Use of Boolean operators for advanced research and use of restrictions and limits in the searching process; 4. Definition and access of search engines and search tools; 5. Access to scientific information resources 6. Assessment and assessing means of these resources 7. Dissemination and disseminating means of scientific researches, storage means In light of the above-mentioned competencies, the present article envisages to present the programs developed at Transilvania University Library and provided for the students, as well as the programs developed at the University of Bergen Library for the Arts and Humanities students. The programs developed in Bergen rely heavily on Carol Kulthaul’s view, that learning the information literacy is a learning process with a certain set of accompanying emotions. Also, the successful information literacy courses need to be situated at a time when the students are writing essays, and in close cooperation with the University teaching staff. The learning outcomes must be developed in a dialogue with the teaching staff in order to be relevant for the student. In the presentation, we will also look at the principles of educational marketing and applications within the university library. The conclusions will be outlined by analyzing the results of an in-depth study of the users' perception and conduct, the utility of the notions presented and the users' expectations with respect to the librarians’ role in their instruction. We also aim at analyzing the users’ behaviour (students, master students, doctoral students, professors. Information management will be approached from both the library and the users’ point of view, and a special emphasis will be laid on the improvement of the research activity in the university
Marketing research in internet resources: User need analysis
No full textConference paper presented at Librarian 200
Knowing the needs. A system for evaluating the university library.
No full textIn the light of the digital library development and of the online communication development, the university education develops in its turn new educational instruments put at the students’ disposal in order to improve their professional skills and their individual studies. The University libraries, which have traditionally been focused on supporting the scholars’ needs in research, have begun to play a more active role in this changing educational system, as a result of the Bologna process. Incorporating the new technologies in the didactic process, accessing the electronic informational resources, using the web space for communication, all these imply qualitative research so as to determine and to optimize the students’ learning methods, and we see a movement in the library world of libraries actively pursuing this. However, to be able to play an active role in the students’ acquiring of scholarly skills, libraries need to implement systems for uncovering the gaps in students’ knowledge. We find that theories and practices from the fields of Market research and Marketing analysis provide a helpful perspective. In this paper we will present a system for an university library to gain knowedge about their student’s needs. This consists of several parts, and we will use examples of surveys, questionnaires and structured interviews. Also, we will present an analysis of data that have been acquired as part of our collaboration in European projects between the university libraries of Brasov, Romania and Bergen, Norwa
Library collection development policies. Training Piloting Module n0: 8
No full textThe author reports about the training on Pilot Module No. 8 ,,Library Collection Development Policy" for the library staff. Training took place at the USARB Scientific Library within the framework of ERASMUS+ LNSS Project "Library Network Support Services: Modernizing Libraries in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus through Library Staff Development and Reforming Library Services". The training was attended by European partner universities, Angela Repanovici, PhD, professor, University "Transilvania", Brasov, Romania, and Dr. Manolis Koukourakis, Director of the Library of the University of Crete
Academic Library Development Projects as Tools in Designing Pedagogical Approach in Information Literacy
No full textInformation literacy, "(…) the ability to think critically and make balanced judgements about any information we find and use. (…)” (CILIP 2018), is an important skill set for academia in the 21st century. Over the years since its first inception, it has become a key competence for academic librarians to offer to students. Although there has always been a need to find, evaluate, and effectively use information, the abilities needed to do so have just grown larger, more complex, and more important in the information and communication technology (ICT) environment. There is also a shift towards broader contexts, to connect information literacy with an active, effective and responsible citizenship (Virkus, 2003). Information literacy is about dealing with information overload – how to choose and decide what is useful and trustworthy. Hence, the focus of information literacy training was different from Bergen, with a large amount of electronic information resources in 2007, to Brasov, with less (Repanovici & Landøy 2007; 2014). Our common interest in information literacy in academic libraries also led us to reach out internationally, and apply for funding to support the development of IL in academic libraries in Republic of Moldova, and in the Western Balkans. In this paper, we will show examples of best practices from the projects. In the Republic of Moldova, we joined forces with Academy of Economic Sciences (ASEM) in Chisinau. First, we trained the ASEM librarians, and then we developed a new project, where we targeted all academic libraries in the republic. In this project, the libraries were supported to make IL trainings for their students, as well as Open Access and bibliometric services (Landøy et al 2017). Transilvania University of Brasov also participated in two Erasmus+ CBHE-projects: One in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus and one in Western Balkans. In both these projects one of the modules for staff development is “enhancing librarians’ development in teaching Information Literacy”. In this paper we will show how the collaborations from our libraries within development of information literacy and other issues, has been beneficial for students and academics at our universities as well as in the international projects we have participated in
To Google or not to Google?
No full textGoogle recently announced the launch of a new project, Google Print, which aims, at the beginning, to digitalize a great quantity of documents by collaboration with five major libraries of the world. The characteristics of this project, its implications on the libraries and library work, and some of the reactions recorded in the world are presented
Measuring the visibility of the university's scientific production through scientometric methods
No full textPurposeThe purpose of this paper is to define the scientific production and productivity, and to present the main indicators for the measurement of the scientific activity. The impact of the research is to be measured and analyzed through citation analysis.Design/methodologyThis is an exploratory study made at the Transilvania University of Brasov to evaluate the research output of the faculty. The author analyzed the 2008 research performance as documented in its annual evaluation that states the number of papers, books, and research contracts. Using Publish or Perish, the author calculated the H‐index, G‐index, HC‐index and HI norm, of the 60 more‐productive professors. Correlation indicators are presented and the importance of open access tools and repositories for increasing the impact of scientific research is discussed.FindingsThe Publish or Perish software is an easy to use instrument for analyzing the impact of research. It calculates the impact of the researchers using the very visible resource, Google Scholar. Google Scholar has better indexing of proceedings and non‐English language material than ISI Web of Science but does not perform so well tracking citations from books and chapters of books.Research limitations/implicationsAuthors' impact analysis and citations are not an assessment tool in Romanian universities, but it is commonly accepted that increasing research impact through more citations is one qualitative indicator.Practical implicationsIt was suggested to the faculty that all professors have to be analysed with the same indicator. Further, Google Scholar and the H‐index obtained using Publish or Perish offer tools for assessing scientific research in a university and for evaluating professors.Social implicationsThe results showed that an open access institutional repository would significantly add to the visibility of the university's scientific production.Originality/valueThe paper presents the methodology and the results of an exploratory study made at the Transilvania University of Brasov regarding the H‐Index of the academic staff. It analyzes the research performances achieved by Brasov academic community in 2008, as realised in its annual evaluation – number of papers, books, research contracts, etc. – by comparing the four indexes of those 60 professors with the best results.</jats:sec
Pedagogical Methods for Teaching the Use of Prototyping by 3D Printers
No full text[EN] The paper presents the concept, design and manufacturing of an educational tool using 3D printing. This method provides
valuable aid in offering the pupils and students a tactile and practical experience in their study, especially if they are visually impaired. The educational tool in the study represents the map of the counties in Romania with their names in Braille alphabet and is an example of the manner 3D printing can be used to enhance the study possibilities of pupils and students with different disabilities.Suciu, A.; Buruian, A.; Repanovici, A.; Cotoros, D.; Ferrándiz Bou, S. (2019). Pedagogical Methods for Teaching the Use of Prototyping by 3D Printers. Procedia Manufacturing. 32:356-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2019.02.225S3563593
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