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Distance Learning - Information Access and Services for Virtual Users (Hardcover)
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Distance Learning - Information Access and Services for Virtual Users (Hardcover)
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The demand for and technology needed to create effective distance
learning programs are increasing at a breakneck pace. Is your
institution keeping up? As educators, information professionals are
faced with the challenge of providing Web-based library
instructional materials in a time of ever-changing technologies.
This book will help you address that daunting challenge, examining
ways to assess user needs, to develop and offer well-thought-out
information literacy courses, to employ appropriate teaching
methodologies, and to determine the effectiveness of existing
information literacy programs. With Distance Learning: Information
Access and Services for Virtual Users, you will examine: the
evolution and significance of asynchronous learning networks (ALN)
and various issues in ALN, including cost, faculty and technology
requirements, the nature of the learning community, social
presence, and collaborative environment virtual reference services,
including electronic journals, subject directories, the invisible
Web, and search engines the criteria for evaluating search results
the role played by consortia and cooperative efforts in
facilitating user access to library resources a review of selected
literature addressing user characteristics and service/staff issues
involved in providing information support for distance education
the strategies, technologies, and pedagogical issues surrounding
the development of Web-based library instruction tools-includes Web
page design, copyright issues, Web site maintenance, and usability
the award-winning online information literacy course developed at
Ulster County Community College in New York-its development, course
modules, and administrative challenges the library support services
provided to distance learning students in the SUNY Plattsburg
Telenursing Program the influence of cultural factors on
interactions within and perceptions of distance education
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