ANU Library: responding to new needs

ANU Library: responding to new needs

Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian, ANU

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• MOOCS – reaching out• Search and finding• Cognition and literacy• Open access – resources at your

fingertips (or almost)

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MOOCs

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Libraries

Universities Students

Community

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“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.” ― Plato, The Republic

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Student expectations

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Libraries looking outside the box (or slipper)

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support

copyright

Open access educational resources

Online guides – Libguides etc

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Collections and searching

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Finding Jan_June 2014

Jan_June 2013 Change

Average searches of Library Catalogue per day

38,005 20,901 +%81.82

Average search of Supersearch per day

8,824 8,099 +%8.95

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ContentE-Resources Jan_June

2014Jan_June

2013

Size of collection number of e-titles available

545,895 449,404 +%21.47

Number of uses (downloads/searches)

1,808,305 1,486,374 +%21.65

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Information literacy: Cognition and learning• Mayer’s theory of multimedia learning• Anderson’s theory of ACT-R cognitive

architecture• Cognitive load

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Cognitive Load Theory

• instructional guidance that promotes efficient learning is most successful

• the learner’s “working memory” correlates to their ability to sensually process information

• Vs Constructivism – which emphasises deep learning – a conceptual understanding of the learning material

Vogel-Walcutt, J.J., Gebrim, J.B., Bowers, C., Carper, T.M. and Nicholson, D. (2011), Cognitive load theory vs. constructivist approaches: which best leads to efficient, deep learning?. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 27: 133–145. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00381.x

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Anderson’s theory of ACT-R cognitive architecture• To analyse knowledge processing • A framework for tasks for learning• Programmatic approach

http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/

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Cognitive load

• Building knowledge using schemas• “encourages learner activities that

optimize intellectual performance”• worked-examples and goal-free problems.

Paas, F., Renkel, A., & Sweller, J. (2004). "Cognitive Load Theory: Instructional Implications of the Interaction between Information Structures and Cognitive Architecture". Instructional Science 32: 1–8. doi:10.1023/B:TRUC.0000021806.17516.d0.

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Redesigning

• Beyond the eye tracking test• Incorporating narrative • Taking account of research that supports

MOOC developments

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Open access

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Looking to the future

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Changing pace

• Scholarly publishing – taking the bull by the horns – ANU’s first eText

• Digitisation– Copyright

• Collaboration– Across nations

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Librarians confess their darkest secrets

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