Digital Learning Materials
On Tuesday, May 3 I attended John Shank’s presentation: Re-Engineering the Academic Library for Digital Natives, held at the Rohrbach Library, Kutztown University.
Libraries (and librarians) need to deal with the issue of how we are perceived. When students and faculty think of the library, they think of books. In a world of digital natives, this perception must be addressed. DLMs (Digital Learning Materials) will play a growing role in the academic environment. These DLMs can be 1) Tutorials/Modules, 2) Games, or 3) Simulations.
Librarians need to position themselves to assist faculty in identifying quality DLMs. In the session John shared useful tools and techniques for locating course appropriate DLMs in Open Educational Resource (OER) repositories and digital libraries. While some may be familiar (Merlot and PRIMO), I learned about several new repositories.
Reengineering the Academic Library for Digital Natives on Prezi
John will be presenting in a live ACRL webcast Re-engineering Academic Libraries for Digital Natives and Beyond: Digital Learning Materials and the ‘Teaching Machine’ of the Future on August 9.
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