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MOOCs and academic libraries: a chance or a problem? An overview
Full text linkI MOOCs (Massive open online courses) sono corsi online di carattere accademico aperti a tutti e senza limiti di iscrizione.
Obiettivo di questo contributo è delineare il dibattito sullo sviluppo dei MOOCs e sul loro impatto sui servizi informativi delle biblioteche accademiche.
Nella prima parte dell'articolo vengono descritti i MOOC come fenomeno didattico emergente nell'ambito dell'educazione superiore e accademica.
Lo sviluppo di piattaforme come Coursera, EdX e Udacity nel 2012 apre una fase entusiastica (il cosiddetto "picco di aspettativa", nel Ciclo di Hype), accompagnata da un ampio dibattito nell'ambiente educativo e accademico. Nell'articolo si analizzano punti di forza e criticità dei MOOCs.
Nella seconda parte parte dell'articolo si focalizza l'attenzione sulle possibili interazioni tra MOOCs e biblioteche accademiche, concentrandosi sui temi seguenti: coinvolgimento e ruolo dei bibliotecari nell'implementazione dei MOOCs; gestione del copyright all'interno dei materiali didattici che costituiscono un corso; information literacy; advocacy della biblioteca; impatto dei MOOCs nei servizi informativi forniti dalle biblioteche accademiche
Comunicare la resilienza: le biblioteche italiane durante la pandemia
No full textQuesto articolo analizza, con un particolare focus sulla comunicazione verso gli utenti, la reazione delle biblioteche italiane al primo lockdown dovuto alla pandemia di Covid-19, evento che segna una significativa interruzione nel regolare fluire dell’intera vita sociale. Si illustra come il ruolo delle biblioteche sia stato informare correttamente gli utenti in un contesto segnato dall’“infodemia” cioè dal proliferare di informazioni false o confusive, contrastando le disuguaglianze nell’accesso alla conoscenza e l’abbandono scolastico. In questa fase critica, in cui occorre prepararsi per una lunga durata dell’emergenza sanitaria, si articolano ipotesi su alcune priorità: fornire informazioni a tutta la comunità fronteggiando il divario digitale, mantenere, fintanto che sarà possibile, sia i servizi digitali che quelli in presenza, consolidare la migrazione di documenti verso il digitale anche attraverso una più ampia interpretazione delle normative sul copyright
Quali “competenze digitali”? Contenuti e sfide tra digital literacy e information literacy
No full textThe aim of this paper is to present an updated framework of the “digital literacy” notion and content. The digital literacy origins date back to 1997: this paper presents the subsequent developments of the word and particularly the context elements that today make the digital literacy topical and urgent. We consider digital literacy as a set of “soft-skills” and “life-skills”. This paper examines the digital literacy specific contents, starting from three institutional reports: the DigComp (proposed by the European Commission in 2017), the EDCL Foundation model (2015), and a recent Unesco-IITE paper (2011).Finally, we propose, through some thematic clusters, an analytic comparison of Digital literacy and Information literacy typical skills. The goal is to propose a collaboration and a hybridization between librarians and other knowledge worker
Cura o incuria? Applicare l'etica della cura nelle biblioteche accademiche
No full textThe care ethics has been reintroduced during the pandemic with a new emphasis, as a reaction to the globalized world vulnerabilities; it is a perspective that consider the individuals not as the abstract and isolated entities described by the classical liberal theory, but as relational, vulnerable, interdependent beings. The empathy and the awareness of the interdependence that connect the humans and the planet are the bases of the caring ethical mood. The article analyses how the care ethics principles are being embedded (or could be introduced) in the academic library services with a special focus on the space’s organization, the digital artifacts and the face-to-face information services. Finally, we observe that the “care” paradigm integration in the academic library services design open some interesting perspectives both in the LIS field and in the conception of the librarians’ professional competencies
I Dati aperti: una risorsa per i documentalisti, un’opportunità per le imprese, un bene comune per tutta l’Unione europea
No full textObiettivo di questo breve saggio è una ricognizione sul fenomeno dei Dati aperti (Open data), con particolare attenzione alle politiche realizzate dall’Unione europea per favorirne, sollecitarne e promuoverne la diffusione e l’utilizzo
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
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