[Web4lib] RE: [lita-l] No library resources on list of top 100 learning tools

[B.G. Sloan]

  This "top 100" list has a mighty long tail...
   
  Ninety experts each were asked to identify what they thought were their top ten learning tools. The "top 100" list was compiled from these "top 10" lists. Over half of the items on the top 100 list were mentioned by 4 or fewer (less than 5%) of the experts. Seventeen of the items were mentioned by only 2 of the 90 experts on their personal lists.
   
  I'm certainly no statistician, so I don't know how significant this is...still...
   
  Bernie Sloan
  
"Junus, Ranti" <junus at mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote: 
  Not to be a nitpick, but if I was asked about identifying tools in a
learning context, 
it would probably won't cross my mind to put library resources as well.
I'd list tools that I use to bring library resources to me (libX,
zotero, and alike.)

They have some interesting tools that I haven't encountered yet.
Interesting...

ranti.
--
Ranti Junus, Web Services/Electronic Resources
Michigan State University Libraries
East Lansing, MI 48824


> -----Original Message-----
> From: B.G. Sloan [mailto:bgsloan2 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:37 PM
> To: lita-l at ala.org; web4lib at webjunction.org; dig_ref at listserv.syr.edu
> Subject: [lita-l] No library resources on list of top 100 
> learning tools
> 
> 
> Interesting blurb from Brock Read at the Chronicle of Higher 
> Education:
> 
> http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2288
> 
> Basically there are no library resources on The Centre for 
> Learning & Performance Technologies' list of Top 100 Tools 
> for Learning . 
> 
> Steven Bell suggests at ACRLog (http://tinyurl.com/2rxvmk) 
> that it may be "a case of our failing to create awareness 
> about these resources to the faculty and researchers who 
> should identify them as valuable e-learning resources."
> 
> But Read (referring to comments by Stephen Downes, a senior 
> researcher for Canada's National Research Council) suggests 
> that perhaps "the lack of library services on the list could 
> be evidence of bad tools, not a lack of publicity."
> 
> Bernie Sloan
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