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Digital literacy
No full textProfessor Helen Partridge, Pro Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning at Deakin University, shares her reflections on 'Digital Literacy' and what it should look like moving forward. Presented as part of the SALS 'Big Day In' held on 27 October 2020
Information Experience : Contemporary Perspectives
No full textThe purpose of this book is to open a conversation on the idea of information experience, which we understand to be a complex, multidimensional engagement with information. In developing the book we invited colleagues to propose a chapter on any aspect of information experience, for example conceptual, methodological or empirical. We invited them to express their interpretation of information experience, to contribute to the development of this concept. The book has thus become a vehicle for interested researchers and practitioners to explore their thinking around information experience, including relationships between information experience, learning experience, user experience and similar constructs. It represents a collective awareness of information experience in contemporary research and practice. Through this sharing of multiple perspectives, our insights into possible ways of interpreting information experience, and its relationship to other concepts in information research and practice, is enhanced. In this chapter, we introduce the idea of information experience. We also outline the book and its chapters, and bring together some emerging alternative views and approaches to this important idea
Prof. Helen Partridge - The best way to predict the future is to create it! (Future of Learning Week 2023)
No full textThis session invites attendees to explore the exciting possibilities and challenges of the future of tertiary education in Australia. Guided by the belief that the best way to predict the future is to actively shape it, this session encourages participants to think creatively and embrace their roles as change-makers in the field. Through a series of provocations attendees will critically explore the current and evolving landscape of higher education and reflect on the possible steps to drive positive practice transformations to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences they need for success.
This video was recorded as part of Learning Transformations - Future of Learning Week 2023
Re-conceptualising and re-positioning Australian library and information science education for the 21st century
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The paper provides an overview of a research project funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) under its 2010 Priority Projects Program. Commencing in November 2009, the project will be undertaken over a period of approximately 12 months. Information in this paper is based upon the original project application submitted to ALTC.
The paper contains a brief summary of the intended directions of the project and is designed to provide overarching context for other discussion papers that will be produced during the course of the project. It outlines the project’s aims, motivation and intended outcomes, its timeline and activities, and strategies for evaluation, profile building and communication dissemination.
It states that Library and information science professionals play a vital role in ensuring Australia’s future in the information economy and in advancing Australia’s ability as a knowledge society. However LIS education in Australia continues to be framed and undertaken in disciplinary and educational traditions that arguably lack the
necessary strategic alignment with Australia’s current and future needs, limiting the productive future growth of the profession. The current approach to LIS education in Australia lacks cohesion and sustainability, with the result that it ultimately fails to effectively or efficiently provide a diverse supply of graduates with the attributes required for professional practice in the rapidly changing twenty-first century.
This is the first of a series of papers exploring future directions for Australian library and information science (LIS) education. The papers are part of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Priority Project which is being led by Associate Professor Helen Partridge from the Queensland University of Technology. The project is being undertaken in partnership with LIS educators from 11 institutions that represent the broad spectrum and diversity of university and vocational LIS education in Australia.
The papers will provide information on the project including preliminary findings and will be released progressively during the course of the project. They are being produced as a way of encouraging open and critical discourse and reflection on a topic that is of fundamental importance to the future of LIS education in Australia. They will also serve as an important component of the project’s evaluation and information communication strategies.
These papers will be of interest to a number of different audiences. Within the LIS discipline they will be of interest to current professionals, employers, educators and students both in Australia and internationally. The papers will also be of interest to colleagues in other disciplines that may inevitably face the need to re-position and re-shape their approach to professional education.
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Potentials of social media for tacit knowledge sharing amongst physicians: Preliminary findings
No full textTacit knowledge sharing amongst physicians, such as the sharing of clinical experiences, skills, or know-how, or know-whom, is known to have a significant impact on the quality of medical diagnosis and decisions. This paper posits that social media can provide new opportunities for tacit knowledge sharing amongst physicians, and demonstrates this by presenting findings from a review of relevant literature and a survey conducted with physicians. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten physicians from around the world who were active users of social media. Initial thematic analysis revealed eight themes as potential contributions of social web tools to facilitate tacit knowledge flow amongst physicians. The emergent themes are defined, linked to the literature, and supported by instances of interview transcripts. Findings presented here are preliminary, and final results will be reported after accomplishing all phases of data collection and analysis. Sirous Panahi, Jason Watson, and Helen Partridge © 2012
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Understanding the participatory library through a grounded theory study
No full textLankes and Silverstein (2006) introduced the "participatory library" and suggested that the nature and form of the library should be explored. In the last several years, some attempts have been made in order to develop contemporary library models that are often known as Library 2.0. However, little research has been based on empirical data and such models have had a strong focus on technical aspects but less focus on participation. The research presented in this paper fills this gap. A grounded theory approach was adopted for this study. Six librarians were involved in in-depth individual interviews. As a preliminary result, five main factors of the participatory library emerged including technological, human, educational, social-economic, and environmental. Five factors influencing the participation in libraries were also identified: finance, technology, education, awareness, and policy. The study's findings provide a fresh perspective on contemporary library and create a basis for further studies on this area. © Linh Cuong Nguyen, Helen Partridge, and Sylvia L. Edwards
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