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Carter, Sunshine; Ambrosi, Thomas – Computers in Libraries, 2011
The University of Minnesota-Duluth is the second largest campus in the University of Minnesota system. The UMD library, which serves more than 11,000 students and 500 faculty members, is primarily an undergraduate library. The reference team consists of eight librarians, including author Sunshine Carter, reference and electronics resources…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Library Automation, Library Development, Academic Libraries
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Main, Doug; Dziekan, Kathryn – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2012
Current distance learning technological advances allow real and virtual classrooms to unite. In this program evaluation study, focus group, participatory action, and qualitative research strategies (Yin, 1994) were used to explore the quality and benefits of infusing elements of three distance learning modalities into the traditional…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Counseling, Distance Education, Feedback (Response), Learning Modalities
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Naaj, Mahmoud Abou; Nachouki, Mirna; Ankit, Ahmed – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2012
Blended learning combines multiple delivery media that are designed to complement each other and promote learning and application-learned behavior (Smith & Dillon, 1999). This article reports on a study conducted in the College of Information Technology to evaluate levels of student' satisfaction with blended learning. The particular blend of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Participant Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Information Technology
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Ovadia, Steven – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2010
Cloud computing is increasingly popular in education. Cloud computing is "the delivery of computer services from vast warehouses of shared machines that enables companies and individuals to cut costs by handing over the running of their email, customer databases or accounting software to someone else, and then accessing it over the internet."…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Internet, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Networks
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Schoenecker, Craig – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
This chapter describes the system office for community college institutional research for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. What makes this System Offices for Community College Institutional Research (SOCCIR) somewhat different from the others reviewed in this volume is that the Minnesota system IR office has responsibilities for both…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, State Colleges, Administrative Organization, Governing Boards
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Fitzgibbons, Megan; Meert, Deborah – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2010
The use of bibliographic management software and its internal search interfaces is now pervasive among researchers. This study compares the results between searches conducted in academic databases' search interfaces versus the EndNote search interface. The results show mixed search reliability, depending on the database and type of search…
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Interfaces, Online Searching
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Baugh, Jeanne M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2011
There are many different approaches to teaching Information Systems courses. Studies have shown that if the student is interested in the topic, they just may have a more productive classroom experience. This paper documents the practice of structuring assignments around topics that are of interest to each individual student. This method has been…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Teaching Methods, Information Systems, Assignments
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Tsai, Chia-Wen; Shen, Pei-Di; Tsai, Meng-Chuan – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2011
The vocational schools in Taiwan regard professional certifications as a badge of skills achievement. The teaching in this context usually focuses on how to help students enhance their professional skills and pass the certificate examinations, particularly for computing courses. However, due to national education policy, pure online courses are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Database Management Systems, Instructional Design
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Lewis, Barbara; Griffin, Melanie – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
Librarians have long struggled to find user-friendly mediums to provide meaningful information to patrons using bibliographies, pathfinders, and subject guides with varying degrees of success. Content management systems, such as Springshare's LibGuides, have recently been developed to facilitate the creation of online subject guides. Special…
Descriptors: Librarians, Users (Information), Bibliographies, Databases
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Badilescu-Buga, Emil – Teaching English with Technology, 2012
Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) has been trialled and used by users from many countries around the globe, but despite the positive attitude towards its potential benefits to pedagogical processes its adoption in practice has been uneven, reflecting how difficult it is to make a new technology based concept an integral part of the…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Adoption (Ideas), Barriers, Literature Reviews
Zhang, Bin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Social scientists usually are more interested in consumers' dichotomous choice, such as purchase a product or not, adopt a technology or not, etc. However, up to date, there is nearly no model can help us solve the problem of multi-network effects comparison with a dichotomous dependent variable. Furthermore, the study of multi-network…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Population Groups
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Francis, Mary – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
This paper will look at the services presently offered to distance students by libraries within the categories of professional staff, access to resources, reference assistance, and library user instruction. It will then offer the argument that these services could be improved by developing embedded librarians within online academic courses as a…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Andragogy, Educational Theories, Academic Libraries
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Maher, Damian; Phelps, Renata; Urane, Nikkita; Lee, Mal – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
As interactive whiteboards appear in increasing numbers in primary classrooms, questions will continue to be asked about the effectiveness of these devices in supporting teaching and learning. It is not the board itself, however, which is likely to make a difference to student learning outcomes, but the resources which teachers choose to use in…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Relevance (Education), Educational Resources, Technology Uses in Education
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Pan, Denise – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2009
Auraria Library purchased Innovative Interfaces, Inc.'s Millennium Electronic Resources Management (ERM) to manage data about acquisitions, licensing, troubleshooting, and usage statistics of electronic resources. After 3 days of implementation, the software vendor enabled resources records to display. As a result, the electronic resources team…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Academic Libraries, Database Management Systems, Library Services
Menges, Beth – School Library Monthly, 2009
"Moodle[TM]," an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, is an open source software package that teachers can use to produce Internet-based courses and Web sites. "Open source" basically means that it is copyrighted, but it can be used at no cost as long as the user agrees to provide the source to others. "Moodle[TM]" can…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Computer Software Reviews, Courseware, Library Instruction
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