Archive for February, 2010
Keeping Up With Learning Technologists
On Thursday May 21, 2009 John Shank and I had the pleasure of co-hosting an important webcast event held by the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community. Josh Kim and Barbara Knauff, Senior Learning Technologists at Dartmouth College co-presented a webcast titled “Becoming an Educational Change Agent”. The presentation was based on an article Kim and [...]
Posted: 10 February, 2010 in Libraries and Learning, Technology Issues.
Tags: inside_higher_ed, josh_kim, learning_technologists
Comments: 1
Interest Group Advances Services To International Students
Did you know that the number of international students at about 3,000 U.S. colleges and universities rose 8% last year to a new high of 671,616. Big increases in students from China helped fuel the rise. As in other recent years, India once again sent the most students to the U.S., followed by China, South [...]
Posted: 3 February, 2010 in International, Student Issues.
Tags: international_students
Comments: 2
Staying the Course
Classes started at my college last Thursday, officially bringing the winter intersession to an end. While the library was fairly quiet in January, I kept myself busy with a couple of big projects, including getting ready to teach our library’s first credit-bearing course this semester.
It’s been exciting (and, I admit it, a little scary) prepping [...]
Posted: 1 February, 2010 in Information Literacy, Libraries and Learning, Student Issues, Teaching.
Tags: college credit, course
Comments: 8
