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Internet for Archives
No full textInternet for Archives online tutorial has been released as part of the Virtual Training Suite at:
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/archives/
The tutorial, which teaches Internet research skills, has been written by Lisa Jeskins, Promotions and Outreach Officer, Archives Hub, Mimas, University of Manchester.
Internet for Archives aims to introduce researchers to archives and help them to search for archive materials online.
The Virtual Training Suite: Internet Skills for Teaching and Learning
Full text linkThe Virtual Training Suite: Internet Skills for Teaching and Learnin
Next steps for the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Virtual Training Suite?
No full textPurpose - The paper seeks to investigate the benefits of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Virtual Training Suite. Design/methodology/approach - This paper gives an overview of the service, its impact in the community and its funding history and future. Findings - The RDN Virtual Training Suite offers free, subject-based internet training online. It was designed to provide a user-education service to supplement the services offered by the RDN. The Virtual Training Suite comprises 61 "teach yourself" web tutorials, with titles ranging from "Internet Chemist" to "Internet Philosopher". Each offers the user a tour of the best of the web for the subject, plus guidance on internet searching and web site evaluation. Evidence suggests that it is being widely adopted in taught courses and library instruction. Originality/value - The paper is useful for anyone planning to use the RDN Virtual Training Suite.Purpose - The paper seeks to investigate the benefits of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Virtual Training Suite. Design/methodology/approach - This paper gives an overview of the service, its impact in the community and its funding history and future. Findings - The RDN Virtual Training Suite offers free, subject-based internet training online. It was designed to provide a user-education service to supplement the services offered by the RDN. The Virtual Training Suite comprises 61 "teach yourself" web tutorials, with titles ranging from "Internet Chemist" to "Internet Philosopher". Each offers the user a tour of the best of the web for the subject, plus guidance on internet searching and web site evaluation. Evidence suggests that it is being widely adopted in taught courses and library instruction. Originality/value - The paper is useful for anyone planning to use the RDN Virtual Training Suite
Technical Architecture of the RDN Virtual Training Suite: A National E-Learning Resource for the UK
No full textThis paper describes the development of the technology and architecture behind the RDN Virtual Training Suite - a national e-learning resource in the UK, comprising over 50 Web based interactive tutorials designed to support learning and teaching. It describes the phases of development undertaken; the issues arising; the role of user feedback and the challenges met and tackled during the development of this popular resource. This paper concludes by discussing the future of the RDN Virtual Training Suite as it continues to develop to meet the needs of UK education.This paper describes the development of the technology and architecture behind the RDN Virtual Training Suite - a national e-learning resource in the UK, comprising over 50 Web based interactive tutorials designed to support learning and teaching. It describes the phases of development undertaken; the issues arising; the role of user feedback and the challenges met and tackled during the development of this popular resource. This paper concludes by discussing the future of the RDN Virtual Training Suite as it continues to develop to meet the needs of UK education
TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE RDN VIRTUAL TRAINING SUITE: A NATIONAL E-LEARNING RESOURCE FOR THE UK
No full textThis paper describes the development of the technology and architecture behind the RDN Virtual Training Suite- a national e-learning resource in the UK, comprising over 50 Web based interactive tutorials designed to support learning and teaching. It describes the phases of development undertaken; the issues arising; the role of user feedback and the challenges met and tackled during the development of this popular resource. This paper concludes by discussing the future of the RDN Virtual Training Suite as it continues to develop to meet the needs of UK education
Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Virtual Training Suite
No full textA collaboration between 30 universities, this Virtual Training Suite provides 40 tutorials designed to help students, lecturers, and researchers improve their Internet information skills. Based on a United Kingdom initiative to offer free online training, these tutorials cover specific web skills for those in disciplines such as math, the history and philosophy of science, geography, bioresearch, earth science, and others. Each tutorial provides expert "tour guides" developed by universities, libraries, museums, and research institutes across the UK. Representative web-based resources are showcased, but the main objective is to teach users how to find the resources that match their particular needs and interests. The tutorials also focus on the critical and evaluative skills required to judge the merits of specific web resources. There is a glossary, a section for teacher resources, downloadable workbooks, and a discussion on how to cite Internet resources. Each tutorial includes quizzes and interactive exercises. Five hubs for tutorial development include: SOSIG (The Social Science Information Gateway), EEVL (The Internet Guide for Engineering, Mathematics and Computing), BIOME (Internet Resources in Health and Life Sciences), PSIgate (The Physical Sciences Information Gateway) and HUMBUL (The Humanities Hub). Educational levels: Graduate or professional, High school, Informal education, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
The evolving landscape of learning technology
Full text linkThis paper provides an overview of the current and emerging issues in learning technology research, concentrating on structural issues such as infrastructure, policy and organizational context. It updates the vision of technology outlined by Squires’ (1999) concept of peripatetic electronic teachers (PETs) where Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provide an enabling medium to allow teachers to act as freelance agents in a virtual world and reflects to what extent this vision has been realized The paper begins with a survey of some of the key areas of ICT development and provides a contextualizing framework for the area in terms of external agendas and policy drivers. It then focuses upon learning technology developments which have occurred in the last five years in the UK and offers a number of alternative taxonomies to describe this. The paper concludes with a discussion of the issues which arise from this work
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
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