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The seminar, conducted by Centre for Distance Education Fellow Dr Jane Secker (CLT, London School of Economics) will drew on evidence from the CDE-funded project Libraries and Social Software in Education (LASSIE) to review how libraries can best support students using new technologies. The project carried out a series of case studies using a number of web 2.0 tools such as blogs, social bookmarking, podcasting and social networking. It concluded that web 2.0 technologies could provide valuable information literacy support to distance learners. Consequently an online course for students studying at LSE through the external system was made available in Moodle.
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Social software and libraries
- 1. Lessons from Lassie: supporting library users at a distance Dr Jane Secker Centre for Learning Technology, LSE CDE Seminar: 6 th July 2010
- 5. Habib’s model of Library 2.0
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- The seminar, conducted by Centre for Distance Education Fellow Dr Jane Secker ( CLT , London School of Economics) will draw on evidence from the CDE-funded project Libraries and Social Software in Education (LASSIE) to review how libraries can best support students using new technologies. The project carried out a series of case studies using a number of web 2.0 tools such as blogs, social bookmarking, podcasting and social networking. It concluded that web 2.0 technologies could provide valuable information literacy support to distance learners. Consequently an online course for students studying at LSE through the external system was made available in Moodle. The course, IRIS (Improving you Reading and Information Skills), could be rolled out more widely in the University of London. It will be demonstrated during the seminar and there will then follow a discussion of how to build of this work and share expertise in this area.
- The study was influenced for the concept of library 2.0 by Michael Habib, which places physical libraries as being somewhere between academic and social spaces. This is something we see more and more on campus – where students come to the library to study and socialise! And library buildings have changed considerably to reflect this – for example the Information Commons at University of Sheffield and the Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian. We are even seeing coffee shops in our public libraries and I did a study tour of US libraries last year and picked up a number of tips about how academic libraries might develop as more students have laptops but want a place to study silently sometimes and work in groups at other times. However, library 2.0 is about whether this can be replicated in a virtual sense – so distance learners don’t come into the library – they use the VLE for their academic work, they use Facebook for socialising. We were interested in whether libraries could play a role in providing a third space in the virtual sense – and I don’t think we have a clear answer yet!
- This second model shows Habib’s more developed model of academic library 2.0 which includes other external factors.
- Lassie was also a great opportunity to try things out and experiment! It gave the project team experience of using lots of new tools
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