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Enseignement supérieur (12/11/08)

noreply@ (pintini) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:23:13 +0100

- Educause Review Magazine (vol. 49, n° 6, nov.-déc. 08)

- What’s Next? Report on the Forum on the Future of Higher Education in Canada
(source: Canadian Policy Research Networks)

- Sustainable Faculty Technology Development to Facilitate a New University Culture
(source: Educause, 30/10/08)
"The Faculty Technology Integration Institute is the result of an interdepartmental collaboration to provide meaningful faculty development opportunities and sustainable innovation. This presentation will provide the results of case study research on the impact of this program on campus-wide change efforts at the University of South Florida Lakeland campus."

- Driving Substantive Teaching and Learning Improvement Using the Five Sloan-C Pillars of Quality
(source: Educause, 31/10/08)
"Instructional technology solutions can help educational institutions achieve substantive teaching and learning improvement if they are theoretically grounded, focused on achieving clear goals (using one or more of the five Sloan-C pillars of quality), designed to accomplish those goals, and evaluated based on their attainment of those goals."

- Should university presses adopt an OA model for all of their scholarly books?
(source: The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, 31/10/08 / via OAN)

- Enseignants chercheurs : projet de décret (France)
(source: affordance.info, 09/11/08)

- Dalbello, Marija (2008) A Program for the Humanities: Panel Position Statement for Mapping Work in the Humanities
(déposé sur dLIST, 09/11/08)
"This position paper presents and argument for "A Humanities Program," as a contribution to the mapping work for the arts and humanities in information science, prepared for the “Mapping Work in the Arts and Humanities: A Participatory Panel Discussion” at ASIS&T 2008, organized by SIG-AH. Panelists: Kristin Eschenfelder (moderator and chair). Panelists: Marija Dalbello, Paul Marty, Stephen Paling (panel organizer), Scott Simon, John Walsh, Megan Winget and Lisl Zach."

- ELIG sets learning priorities in Europe for 2009
(source: European Learning Industry Group / via OAN, 07/11/08)

- Open Access Scholarship and Teaching: Why Should it Matter to You?
(source: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / via OAN, 06/11/08)
Vidéo et présentation

- OER Research Repository
(source: New Open Access Archive Focuses on Open Educational Resources Movement / via OAN, 05/11/08)
OER: Open Educational Resources

- Laying the Foundation for Innovative, Flexible, and Consistent Classroom Technology
(source: Educause, 31/10/08)
"Carnegie Mellon University has just completed an intense analysis and implementation of new, standardized technologies in all of the university's general classrooms. This presentation will discuss the careful analysis and planning used to ensure the consistency, supportability, and usability of technology in the classroom now and for the years to come."

JISC: LMAP

noreply@ (pintini) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:13:45 +0100

Phil Barker, du JISC Cetis, rend accessible ce draft report consacré aux résultats d'une étude de faisabilité menée dans le cadre du JISC et relative à LMAP (Learning Materials Application Profile), c'est-à-dire aux métadonnées liées aux divers supports et ressources d'enseignement.

"This report details the findings of a scoping study carried out for the JISC to investigate a potential metadata application profile for learning materials. The objective of the study was to synthesize and analyse the advice that is currently available to managers of repositories containing educational materials who need to define a metadata element set to describe those materials. The hope was that this would help define the scope of a potential Learning Materials Application Profile. There was no intention to produce an application profile as part of this work, nor was the work limited to any particular metadata schema.
Our starting point was that "learning materials" were likely to be of many different resource types (images, videos, simulations, etc.), and that each resource type would have its own metadata requirements and conventions. Furthermore, metadata would be required to support a range of activities (resource discovery, collection management, supporting accessibility, etc.), again each activity would have its own metadata requirements and conventions. Representatives from expert groups and communities relevant to each metadata specialism were interviewed in order to ascertain the range of advice available. These interviews form the basis of the synthesis of metadata requirements given in this report. In order to analyse these requirements two domain models were investigated. One model concerns the functional units of a repository, the other model concerns the entities being described by the metadata and the relationships between them. Using these it is possible to see how the metadata requirements for various resource types and activities relate to each other, to the internal and external interactions of a repository, and to the resources being described. [...]"

[e-book] Technologies et impact sur l'enseignement supérieur

noreply@ (pintini) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:48:25 +0100

The Tower and the Cloud
(source: Educause, oct. 08 / via DigitalKoans)

Disponible en ligne: version

"The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on the Internet. Empowerment of the individual -- or consumerization -- is reducing the individual's reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and emerging virtual ones. Second, ubiquitous access to high-speed networks along with network standards, open standards and content, and techniques for virtualizing hardware, software, and services is making it possible to leverage scale economies in unprecedented ways. What appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing -- a standardized infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data storage and protection, and services. Comsumerization and industrialization beg the question "Is this the end of the middle?"; that is, what will be the role of "enterprise" IT in the future? Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education."

Disponible également en version papier

Enseignement supérieur (23/10/08)

noreply@ (pintini) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:05:00 +0200

- EDUCAUSE Core Data Service 2007 Summary Report
(source: Educause, oct. 08)
Version

- Live Blogging in the College Classroom: A Professor and Student Perspective
(source: Journal of Electronic Publishing, oct. 08)

- THE - QS World University Rankings 2008
(source: ResourceShelf, 14/10/08)
Voir aussi le classement européen.

- Enhancing the Flow of Supply and Demand Information among Training Institutions, Students, and Employers
(source: Canadian Policy Research Network / via Docuticker, 15/10/08)

- The Scholarly Book Buyer's Decision Process: A National Survey of University Faculty Members in the United States
(source: Journal of Scholarly Publishing; Oct2008, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p66-96, 31p / sur abonnement)
"This article reports on a national survey of university faculty members in the United States regarding the factors that influence their purchases of scholarly books. In total, 233 faculty members from eleven disciplines in more than fifty universities were surveyed. The survey gauged the impact of a series of factors that influence scholarly book purchases for research and teaching. In addition, sources of information used to locate scholarly books of interest were identified and contrasted across fields of study. The survey also examined trends in the respondents’ book-buying behaviour, their propensity to purchase used books, and the frequency with which they used university library systems to obtain access to scholarly books."

- The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology
(source: Educause, 20/10/08)

[thèse] L'édition universitaire française face au numérique

noreply@ (pintini) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:37:13 +0200

L'édition universitaire française face au numérique : Enjeux stratégiques et menaces économiques pour les manuels en Sciences Humaines et Sociales (Benoît Epron, thèse déposée sur ArchiveSIC, 21/10/08 / Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I (2005-11-29), Jean-Michel Salaün (Dir.))

"Face aux développements des technologies de l'information et de la communication dans les domaines de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, le secteur de l'édition a été conduit à prendre en compte la montée en puissance du numérique dans ses perspectives stratégiques.
L'évolution actuelle de l'édition universitaire numérique au niveau international laisse apparaître un réel décalage entre les disciplines et les bassins linguistiques, les STM anglophones s'inscrivant clairement dans un axe de transition forte vers une activité numérique devenant majeure. La situation internationale se voit reproduite en France pour les STM, mais la situation des SHS est par contre beaucoup plus en retrait par rapport au numérique, sans préjuger toutefois de la possibilité pour ce secteur de suivre l'évolution des STM.
Le secteur des revues s'est distingué des autres secteurs éditoriaux universitaires et a développé une activité non-marchande représentative sur la base des supports numériques. A l'exception des dictionnaires et encyclopédies, les autres genres éditoriaux, les ouvrages, essais, monographies... n'ont pas mis en place de réelle stratégie numérique, la situation étant au stade de l'étude et de l'analyse.
C'est dans ce contexte que s'inscrit ce travail de thèse. Il vise à apporter une analyse de la position de l'édition d'ouvrages universitaires face aux perspectives du numérique. Cette analyse a pour objectif la compréhension des enjeux et des caractéristiques qui distinguent ce domaine face dans la transition numérique. Il vise également à apporter des propositions de modèles et des préconisations en vue du développement d'une activité numérique pour ces secteurs."

[Article] Attitudes toward knowledge sharing and collaboration

noreply@ (pintini) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:04:45 +0200

An analysis of faculty perceptions: Attitudes toward knowledge sharing and collaboration in an academic institution
(source: Library & Information Science Research, 16/10/08 / sur abonnement)

"Knowledge-sharing is the process of being aware of knowledge needs and making knowledge available to others by constructing and providing technical and systematic infrastructure. Numerous studies have addressed issues related to knowledge-sharing at various levels within organizations and between types of organizations. This study identifies and analyzes major factors for knowledge-sharing among faculty members in a higher educational institution in order to examine how those factors influence campus wide knowledge-sharing. It also investigates the way in which those factors are interrelated. Data were collected through a survey of full-time university faculty members at one private, four-year research university in South Korea. Results show that perception is the most influential factor and reward systems are the second-most influential factor for faculty knowledge-sharing. Respondents do not consider other factors such as Trust, Openness in Communication, Collaboration, and Communication Channels based on IT Infrastructure to be main factors. These factors do not have a statistically significant effect on faculty knowledge-sharing."

Enseignement/Recherche (12/10/08)

noreply@ (pintini) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:54:57 +0200

- Hypothèses. Carnets de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales
(source: Cleo-Revues.org)
"Qu'est-ce qu'un carnet de recherche ? Il s'agit d'un mode de publication rapide et léger permettant de rendre compte régulièrement de recherches en cours. Un carnet de recherche peut être un carnet de fouilles archéologiques, une chronique scientifique sur un thème précis, un carnet de bord d'une recherche collective en cours, un blog de revues ou de livres, un carnet de terrain, une newsletter scientifique, etc. Il permet au « carnetier » de dialoguer avec ses lecteurs par le biais des commentaires. Il repose enfin sur l'utilisation d'un outil simple, ne nécessitant pas de connaissance informatique particulière."

- ESC Lille adopte la solution Google Apps Education : Un campus numérique inédit en France
(source: Urfist, 02/10/08)

- Lost in Transition? The International Students’ Experience Project
(source: University of the Arts London / ILW, 04/10/08)

- E-Textbooks for All
(source: Inside Higher Ed, 07/10/08)
"A pilot at the University of Texas at Austin will replace printed textbooks with electronic versions for all students in certain classes, free of charge."

- E-learning et cours magistral
(source: Urfist, 07/10/08)

Enseignement/Recherche (02/10/08)

noreply@ (pintini) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:34:23 +0200

- Advancing Science through Conversations: Bridging the Gap between Blogs and the Academy
(source: PLoS Biology / via OAN, 25/09/08)

- Galyani Moghaddam, Golnessa and Moballeghi, Mostafa (2008) How Do We Measure Use of Scientific Journals? A Note on Research Methodologies . Scientometrics 76(1):pp. 125-133.
(source: déposé sur E-LIS, 28/09/08)
"Scientific journals represent a significant and growing part of the libraries and many researchers have attempted to measure their use by various methodological approaches till date. In this paper, the author reviews the methodologies employed by researchers working on scientific journals usage. It aims to present an overall picture of the research methods used in the area, in a way that will be of value to anyone seeking to study scientific journals. The author reviews four main research methodologies which are being used for profiling scientific journals usage including questionnaire, interview, citation analysis and transaction log analysis."

- Planning for Contraction
(source: Inside Higher Ed, 28/09/08)
"Timothy Burke looks at the changing economic landscape for higher education -- and sees a coming period of relative austerity."

- Skills, Role & Career Structure of Data Scientists & Curators: Assessment of Current Practice & Future Needs
(source: Key Perspectives/JISC, juillet 08)

- Giménez-Toledo, Elea and Román-Román, Adelaida (2008) Peer review and in-depth interviews with publishers as a means of assessing quality of research monographs . In Proceedings 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Vienna (Austria).
(source: déposé sur E-LIS)
"It has often been observed that evaluating scientific activity in the Humanities and in some of the Social Sciences needs to involve a study of monographs, as they are often the preferred mean of publication by scientists in these fields. As well as being the most frequently cited publication type, monographs are also the mean most often used to publish research findings. Thus, if they are not included in the evaluation process, a significant part of the scientific output is excluded, and the scientific activity undervalued.
The purpose of this work in progress is to push forward the study of monographs to provide evaluators of research activities with a number of consistent scholar books quality indicators, through two different approaches: a survey of more than 200 researchers working in various fields and in-depth interviews with the editors responsible for selecting manuscripts at each of the best-regarded publishers."

- Open Access to and Reuse of Research Data—The State of the Art in Finland
(source: Finnish Social Science Data Archive / via DigitalKoans, 30/09/08)

- The Future of Research (Science and Technology)
(source: C. Goble, université de Manchester / British Library, 23/09/08)

- Innovate. Journal of Online Education (vol. 5, n° 1, oct.-nov. 08)
> Recasting Distance Learning with Network-Enabled Open Education: An Interview with Vijay Kumar James L. Morrison and Vijay Kumar
> Transforming e-Learning into ee-Learning: The Centrality of Sociocultural Participation Sandra B. Schneider and Michael A. Evans
> e-Learning and Action Research as Transformative Practice Margaret Farren
> Using Student Response Systems to Increase Motivation, Learning, and Knowledge Retention David J. Radosevich, Roger Salomon, Deirdre M. Radosevich, and Patricia Kahn
> Designing for the Student: Users' Styles and Department Web Sites Trevor Hall, Ryan Jensen, and Daniel McLean
> Places to Go: Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Stephen Downes

Enseignement/Recherche (25/09/08)

noreply@ (pintini) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:36:00 +0200

- User-generated science
(source: The Economist, 18/09/08 / via OAN)
"Web 2.0 tools are beginning to change the shape of scientific debate"

- New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies
(source: Ariadne, n° 56, juillet 08)
"In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of ‘Web 2.0’ and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop ‘schema’ or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer."

- How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content
(source: Blogo Numericus, 22/09/08)

- La fièvre de l'évaluation de la recherche. Du mauvais usage de faux indicateurs
(source: Yves Gingras, CIRST, UQAM, mai 2008 / via Urfist)

- Compendium d’indicateurs de l’activité scientifique et technologique au Québec : les incidences de la science, de la technologie et de l’innovation, Québec
(source: Institut de la statistique du Québec)

- Est-ce que le déluge de données va rendre la méthode scientifique obsolète ?
(source: InternetActu, 09/09/08)

E.-U.: It's All About Teaching

noreply@ (pintini) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:55:47 +0200

Au menu du New York Times Magazine de la rentrée: un numéro spécial enseignement aux E.-U: It's All About Teaching.

Via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian