Re-engineering Academic Libraries for Digital Natives and Beyond: John D. Shank Instructional Design Librarian Associate Director of the Center for Learning & Teaching @ Berks Digital Learning Materials (DLMs) & The ‘Teaching Machine’ of the Future Reimaginin g
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Re-engineering Academic Libraries for Digital Natives and Beyond
The slides are from the 2011 ACRL e-learning webcast that focused on the capability of digital learning materials (i.e. interactive learning objects, open educational resources, learning materials (i.e. interactive tutorials, simulations, and games) to engage learners and be essential resources for enhancing student learning across all disciplines, both in the classroom and online and the role the library should play in collecting, sharing, disseminating, and using these resources.
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Re-engineering Academic Libraries for
Digital Natives and Beyond:
John D. ShankInstructional Design Librarian
Associate Director of the Center for Learning & Teaching @ Berks
Digital Learning Materials (DLMs) &
The ‘Teaching Machine’ of the Future
Reimagini
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Getting to Know You
“We thought for many years that we were in the wine business. In fact, we were in the bottling business. And we don’t know a damned thing about wine.”
What are DLMs?… any web-based, interactive, multimedia, instructional resource used to teach a specific learning objective or discrete set of objectives.
1. Identify Instructional Goals & Objects (ask an ID)What are the outcomes for your students?
2. Locate & Select Possible DLMs (ask a Librarian)OERs & Libraries
3. Utilize: plug it into the course (IT – LMS)It must enhance students’ ability to perform desired outcomes.
Critical Issues
• Acquisition Challenges
• Access Challenges
• Preservation Challenges
• ADA compliance
• Others?
Actions to Take
• Instructional (Info. Lit/fluency)
• eLearning opportunities
• Institutional Repositories
• DLM Discovery Library Service
• Become a Blended Librarian
• Others?
Higher Education
Higher education thought it was in the teaching business
Today, higher education is increasingly viewed as in the learning business
THE RESULT OF THIS SHIFT
Scott Bennett
“In the twenty-first century, we need constantly to affirm that the most important educational function of physical library space is to foster a culture of intentional learning.”
Libraries and Learning
Academic Libraries
College & research academic libraries are becoming more essential facilitators of learning through their services and collections, thus enabling knowledge enrichment and intellectual inquiry
Imagine the Future
Providing Space and Access to DLMs in the 21st Century Library