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Library 2.0

Learning with e's

What does the future hold for our university libraries? The library has long been seen by many as a very traditional, conservative institution, and is often portrayed as a place where rows upon rows of antiquated book shelves slowly gather dust. Just how are libraries adapting to the digital age and all it brings?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Smell of Books

Learning Visions

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 The Smell of Books I cant see myself getting an Amazon Kindle. I like sitting on the couch with a book and a cup of tea, thumbing through the pages, smelling the paper and the ink. But Grafton points out some of the more subtle things that are lost when books are digitized.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Essential Reading for Instructional Design?

Learning Visions

As an instructional designer/eLearning professional, what books are the essential tools in your reference library ? Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. Practical books with lots of real examples. Perhaps we need to start a lending library. Cammy, First Principles is a paper, not a book. Curry said.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Kineo Top Tips

Learning Visions

Beachward Bound Crowdsourcing: Authoring Tools & LMS Questions My Summer ID Reading List ► June (3) eLearning Authoring Tools Mindmap The Two Faces of ePortfolios The Unofficial eLearning Salary Calculator ► May (9) Book Review: Ruth Clark’s Evidence-Based Training. Can I, um, have your attention, please?

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Not so shallow

Learning with e's

Nicholas Carr''s book The Shallows is the literary equivalent of Marmite. It''s like many books that have recently critiqued the Internet Age. Carr''s book develops this argument a little further by arguing that the things we do on the Internet have a physical effect on our brains. London: Atlantic Books.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Do Instructional Design Degrees Get "Wasted"?

Learning Visions

Before signing up for the ID program I had both been apprenticed into ID by degreed-IDers and I had gone to my college library (where I work) and checked out books on learning theory and ID in order to understand the educational/learning management field. Interestingly enough, I see the same degree-based-bias in the Library field.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Off-the-Shelf Content: Help!

Learning Visions

Say, if youre purchasing a course library from SkillSoft or some other vendor: If a client has their own LMS, do they purchase the courses outright and host them on their own servers? Cammy at Learning Solutions #ls2010 Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Des. Ive always been about custom content. United States License.

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